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标题：National education policy constructions of the â€˜knowledge economyâ€™: towards a critique
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作者：Michael Peters
期刊名称：Journal of Educational Enquiry
电子版ISSN：1444-5530
出版年度：2001
卷号：2
期号：1
语种：English
出版社：University of South Australia
摘要：A rediscovery of the economic importance of education has been fundamental to understanding the new global knowledge economy (Papadopoulos 1994). The Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development (OECD) and the World Bank have stressed the significance of education and training as keys to participation in the new global knowledge economy for the development of â€˜human resourcesâ€™; for upskilling and increasing the competencies of workers; and for the production of research and scientific knowledge. Drucker (1993) and Porter (1990) emphasise the importance of the economics and productivity of knowledge as the basis for national competition within the international marketplace. Thurow (1996, p 68) suggests that a technological shift to an era dominated by man-made brainpower industries is one of five economic tectonic plates that constitute a new game with new rules: â€˜Today knowledge and skills now stand alone as the only source of comparative advantage. They have become the key ingredient in the late twentieth centuryâ€™s location of economic activityâ€™.