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Smart Cities Learning

Smart Cities Learning

Carlo Giovannella, Vincenzo Baraniello
Copyright: © 2012 |Volume: 3 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 15
ISSN: 1947-3494|EISSN: 1947-3508|EISBN13: 9781466611702|DOI: 10.4018/jdldc.2012100101
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Giovannella, Carlo, and Vincenzo Baraniello. "Smart Cities Learning." IJDLDC vol.3, no.4 2012: pp.1-15. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdldc.2012100101

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Giovannella, C. & Baraniello, V. (2012). Smart Cities Learning. International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence (IJDLDC), 3(4), 1-15. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdldc.2012100101

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Giovannella, Carlo, and Vincenzo Baraniello. "Smart Cities Learning," International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence (IJDLDC) 3, no.4: 1-15. http://doi.org/10.4018/jdldc.2012100101

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Abstract

The cities, despite the huge size reached by some and the problems by which they are sometimes afflicted, continue to attract people and pose epochal sustainability challenges to which policy makers and planners have decided to respond with a top-down functionalist approach aiming at transforming the cities in “smart cities”. The purpose of this paper is to present a critical analysis of such approach highlighting its limitations as far as education systems are concerned. The hope is to contribute to arise awareness and foster a timely and necessary redefinition of the functionalist approach to appropriately face an unavoidable transformation of the education system (space, strategies, processes and methods) that in turn will require the future learners to widen their skills to become smart enough to lifelong learn within and from smart territories.

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