Education, capability and skills

This chapter extends the topic of learning more broadly than in previous chapters, focusing initially on the implications of digitalisation for both the content and delivery of education Such functions extend in the digital society to the specific knowledge and skills needed to operate effectively within every part of it, i.e. mastery of the ‘Internet of Everything’. Because of the speed of technological transformation attention is drawn to the challenges digitalisation presents to management of education and the taught curriculum. The chapter also considers the distinctive contributions informal and formal education make to generic skills and lifelong learning, the central aim of which is building in a changing world, capabilities that match economic and life course needs. Amartya Sen’s unifying ideas about freedom to achieve also have a central role.