ISBD 2021 Global Conference Welcome

Drawing on observations at the 2017 Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) – a global conference held in Christchurch, New Zealand – this paper examines the significance of localised event spaces in shaping economic subjects and, by extension, economic sectors. Conferences such as the SEWF are sites and moments that provide access to new knowledge, foster collective action and shape the subjectivities of economic actors. We describe how the SEWF cultivated sympathetic affective responses towards social enterprise and the subject position of the social entrepreneur, and demonstrate how the local specificities of Christchurch, as a place, were key to the cultivation of social-entrepreneurial subjectivity at the SEWF.

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Special Focus: Lifelong Learning — The Challenge and Potential for Industry and Higher Education

Industry and Higher Education ◽

10.1177/095042229500900403 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 205-216 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Norman Longworth

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Lifelong Learning ◽

Special Focus ◽

Concept Definition ◽

The World ◽

The Future ◽

Introductory Paper ◽

Global Conference

The papers which follow in this special focus on lifelong learning are based on presentations at the First Global Conference on Lifelong Learning, held in Rome on 30 November–2 December 1994. In this introductory paper, Norman Longworth discusses the concept, definition and practice of lifelong learning and assesses why its importance and significance for the future are increasingly appreciated and stressed. He also sets out and discusses the main themes of the Rome conference, and analyses their implications and challenges specifically for business and higher education. Finally he describes the roles of the European Lifelong Learning Initiative (ELU), which organized the Rome conference, and the World Initiative on Lifelong Learning (WILL), which was established at the conference.

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