These terms also are employed towards very different ends. The term learning is used, for example, to refer to skill development, information access and personal consciousness-raising for individuals. The same term is employed to describe system processes ranging from
innovation and organizational change to knowledge management. Further, as Usher and
Edwards (2007) show in their extended discussion of lifelong learning discourses,
‘learning’ is a wily shapeshifter, conjuring itself in discursive guises such as policy
imperative, code for growth, and synonym for education. One is tempted sometimes to
abandon the word as utterly hollowed out of any meaning worth discussing.