Selected Reports and Publications:

1998 Learning Communities: Cities, Towns and Villages Preparing for a 21st Century Knowledge-Based Economy

2000 Learning Based Community Development 

2001 Summary - Learning Communities, Villages, Neighbourhoods, Towns, Cities and Regions Preparing for a Knowledge-Based Society  

2001 Sculpting A Learning Community On Its Own Terms: The Upper Skeena  

2001 The Way Forward: Building a Learning Nation  (A discussion paper related to a conceptual framework as well as a possible implementation strategy) 

2003 Learning Community by Community: Preparing for a Knowledged-based Society.   (The author gratefully acknowledges permission of the Canadian Education Association to use this material found in their journal, Education Canada, in Vol. 43 No. 1 Winter 2003) 

2004 Caledon Institute community stories (The author gratefully acknowledges permission of the Caledon Institute to use this material found on their website):

• Bamfield B C: Wonderful Things Can Happen at the End of the Road
• Community Development in the Upper Skeena: Death Feasts and Transformative Change
• Learning Communities in the Monashee
• Lillooet is Learning
• Whistler-Mount Currie Learning Communities Project

2004 Lifelong Learning, Social Capital and Place Management in Learning Communities and Regions: a Rubic's Cube or a Kaleidoscope? (A hot topic paper of August 2004 with permission of the Observatory Pascal on Place Management, Social Capital and Learning Regions.)

2004 The Likelihood of Learning Communities: A Canadian Australian Perspective. (A comparison of developments in Whistler, British Columbia, and the Yarra Ranges, Victoria State. A paper co-authored with Prof. John Martin, RMIT University, and presented by John at the ACSANZ Conference at Macquarrie University, Sydney, September 2004.)

2005 Victoria Learning City Proclamation 

2006 Victoria Lifelong Learning Festival Business Plan 

2006 Learning Cities: An Annotated Bibliography 

2006 Learning Cities: Lessons Learned 

2006 Learning Communites of Place  (A collaborative paper about the nested concept of learning communities presented by Dr. Leone Wheeler at the 2006 Brisbane Learning Communities Conference)

Useful Links:

Learning Communities Network (an alliance to promote UK learning communities)

Upper Skeena Learning Community Partnership (a collaborative community initiative)

Learning Towns and Cities (a survey of 19 UK learning cities and towns in 1998 including a summary of developments)

Hume Global Learning Village (an outstanding learning city with a Social Justice Charter and a Civic Bill of Rights)

Mt Evelyn Learning Town (the Community Link has interesting information on learning community implementation and links)

Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement (substantial information on the ?vibrant communities? anti-poverty community-based initiative in 15 communities across Canada)

The Spirit Level (how equality benefits everyone)