Europe S Lifelong Learning Markets Governance And Policy

Author : Marcella Milana,Gosia Klatt,Sandra Vatrella
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030380694

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Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy by Marcella Milana,Gosia Klatt,Sandra Vatrella Pdf

This book explores European governance and policy coordination within lifelong learning markets. Using an instruments approach, the editors and contributors examine the ways in which governance mechanisms employed by the European Union influence policy to regulate lifelong learning, and intervene in lifelong learning markets, at both European and national levels. Filling an important gap in the current literature, this book examines how strengthened policy coordination at the EU level contributed to the blurring of boundaries between policy fields and the redefinition of the function of adult education after the 2008 recession. Divided into three parts, this book draws on a range of case studies from countries including Spain, Denmark, Bulgaria and the UK. It will be of interest and value to students and scholars of education policy and governance, adult education and lifelong learning.

Author : Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo,Kovacheva, Siyka
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781447350668

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Lifelong Learning Policies for Young Adults in Europe by Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo,Kovacheva, Siyka Pdf

This comprehensive collection discusses topical issues essential to both scholarship and policy making in the realm of Lifelong Learning (LLL) policies and how far they succeed in supporting young people across their life courses, rather than one-sidedly fostering human capital for the economy. Examining specific regional and local contexts across Europe, all various in context, this book uses original research to evaluate differences in scope, approach, orientation, and objectives. It enquires into the embedding of LLL policies into the regional economy, the labour market, education and training systems and the individual life projects of young people, with focus on those in situations of near social exclusion.

Author : Roger Dale,Susan Robertson
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927908

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Globalisation and Europeanisation in Education by Roger Dale,Susan Robertson Pdf

This book grew out of the experience of a European Union Thematic Network of the same title, and focuses on aspects of the complex and varying relationships between globalisation, Europeanisation and Education. The volume is divided into two parts: PART 1: Governance and the Knowledge Economy, focuses on how the discourses of a Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning, and an emerging functional and scalar division of the labour of educational governance became central to the development of a European Education Space. Contributors emphasise the role of the European Commission, and especially the Lisbon agenda, in this process, and considers the role of the Open Method of Coordination and the Bologna Process in the construction of the EES. A key theme linking Europeanisation to globalisation is the prominence of the discourse of competitiveness, and the role allocated to education in enhancing Europe’s ability to compete with the United States and Japan. PART TWO: Citizenship, Identity and Language, looks at the emergence of a new social model for Europe, this time from the point of view of how it relates the development of individual capacities and citizenship, and the role of intellectuals in this process. A second major theme is the place, role and choice of languages and at the impact of pressures from globalisation and Europeanisation, and national and sub-national levels, on language choice and teaching, taking into account both ‘World Englishes’ and Language Europe. Finally, globalisation becomes the central issue in an analysis of its different relationships with ‘northern’ (of which European education policy is taken as the example) and ‘southern’ paradigms of educational development.

Author : Karen Evans,Wing On Lee,Jörg Markowitsch,Miriam Zukas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1330 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031195921

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Third International Handbook of Lifelong Learning by Karen Evans,Wing On Lee,Jörg Markowitsch,Miriam Zukas Pdf

The Third edition of this well-received and widely used Handbook brings together an entirely new set of chapters, to reflect progress and new themes in the ten years to 2022. Building on the established structure of the first two Handbooks, the four sections focus in turn on: philosophy, history and theory development; fresh perspectives on policy and policy development; emerging programs and new approaches; and re-imagining lifelong learning for future challenges. The Handbook stimulates readers with fresh and timely insights, while exploring anew some enduring themes. New topics and themes introduced in all sections address lifelong learning challenges associated with climate change, the digital world, the rise of populism, migration and precarious living. The Handbook features learning innovations and evolving pedagogies such as intergenerational learning, art as pedagogy to promote public-mindedness, neuroscience enhancing learning effectiveness, and lifelong learning for sustainability. Policy responses to lifelong learning for work and well-being are debated. In state of the art contributions, authors from around the globe focus readers' attention on multifaceted processes, issues and decisions that must be better understood and enacted if inclusive development and fair access to lifelong learning are to become realities for us all.

Author : Sebastiano Benasso,Dejana Bouillet,Tiago Neves,Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030964542

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Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe by Sebastiano Benasso,Dejana Bouillet,Tiago Neves,Marcelo Parreira do Amaral Pdf

This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop their life courses amidst diverse living conditions and are confronted with a variety of institutional and structural arrangements that impact on their opportunities in education and labour. Considering the relevance of LLP in shaping those opportunities, the chapters draw from multi-level, mixed-methods research and offer original insights on the interplay of discourses and governance patterns in the processes of policy-making and deliverance. The book yields noteworthy insights into the widely differing realities across the European landscape, and also into the diverging ways young people deal with and actively participate in LLP.

Author : Jenny Ozga,Peter Dahler-Larsen,Christina Segerholm,Hannu Simola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136824463

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Fabricating Quality in Education by Jenny Ozga,Peter Dahler-Larsen,Christina Segerholm,Hannu Simola Pdf

How is European Education Governed? Data is now the lifeblood of education governance. At the international level, organisations like the OECD steer education systems through their programmes of assessment and the European Commission’s project of creating the most successful knowledge economy in the world is driven by data collection, analysis and comparison. At the national level, policy-makers increasingly depend on data to show them where they are positioned, in relation to their competitors, and draw on data to justify policy directions. Within systems, schools and teachers have become proficient in data use, and interpret their priorities with reference to data. This book draws on a three-year comparative study of the influence of data on education systems in Europe, looking at the contrasting policy contexts of Denmark, England, Finland, Scotland and Sweden, and examining the use of data in these systems, in relation to steering by Europe, as well as policy mediation and ‘translation’ of data within systems. The authors draw on interviews with key policy actors in the European Commission and with national policy makers in all five systems, as well as on local case studies and a major comparative survey of the effects of data production and use on the work of teachers and headteachers. The research brought together international researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including educationalists, political scientists and specialists in research and evaluation. The book offers new arguments relating to the use of Quality Assurance and Evaluation as a means of standardising and harmonising education policy and practice, while also drawing attention to significant variation in policy and practice across these systems. It should be of interest to researchers, post-graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in policy studies in education and more generally.

Author : Marina Cino Pagliarello
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030940942

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Ideas and European Education Policy, 1973-2020 by Marina Cino Pagliarello Pdf

This book analyses the transformation of European Education Policy from 1973 to 2020. In doing so, it offers a unique insight into the changes of European education from a predominantly national concern to a supranational policy framework, driven by an economic discourse concerning productivity and employability. The book shows that the idea of the “Europe of Knowledge” did not originate in the Lisbon Strategy of 2000, but rather was the result of a gradual development that started in the mid-1980s. This begun with the establishment of a specific problem definition of education as a solution for Europe’s lack of competitiveness, a definition that was incrementally constructed by the European Commission and the European business community. Highlighting significant and unexplored questions such as the role of European transnational business in education and the role of the “problem entrepreneur” in defining policy issues, this book will provide a comprehensive perspective on European Education Policy that will be of interest to all students of European Politics, Education Policy, and Public Policy.

Author : John Holford,Pepka Boyadjieva,Sharon Clancy,Günter Hefler,Ivana Studená
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031141096

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Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe by John Holford,Pepka Boyadjieva,Sharon Clancy,Günter Hefler,Ivana Studená Pdf

This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society. Young adults, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, engage more in education and training, and learn more day-to-day at work, if provision is democratically organised and based on enduring and inclusive institutional networks, and when jobs encourage and reward the acquisition of skills. Using innovative qualitative and quantitative methods, the contributors develop a critical perspective on dominant policies, investigating – across the European Union and Australia – how ‘vulnerable’ young adults experience programmes designed to improve their ‘employability’, and how ‘skills for jobs’ policies squeeze out wider – and wiser – ideas of what education and training should do. Chapters show why some provision works for those with poor educational backgrounds, why labour market and educational institutions matter so much, how adult education can empower and expand people’s agency, and the challenges of using artificial intelligence in lifelong learning policy-making. Several investigate the pivotal role of workplace learning in organisational life, and in learning during ‘emerging adulthood’. Important comparative studies of workplace learning in the metals, retail and adult education sectors show the role of management, trade unions and social movements in young adults’ learning.

Author : Marcella Milana,Palle Rasmussen,Margherita Bussi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781803925950

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Research Handbook on Adult Education Policy by Marcella Milana,Palle Rasmussen,Margherita Bussi Pdf

Bringing together an impressive array of esteemed and emerging academics, the Research Handbook on Adult Education Policy addresses how adult learning and education policies are made, and the theories and methodologies which can be mobilised to study its developments.

Author : Martin Lawn,Sotiria Grek
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927618

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Europeanizing Education by Martin Lawn,Sotiria Grek Pdf

The study of common and diverse effects in the field of education across Europe is a growing field of inquiry and research. It is the result of many actions, networks and programmes over the last few decades and the development of common European education policies. Europeanizing Education describes the origins of European education policy, as it metamorphosed from cultural policy to networking support and into a space of comparison and data. The authors look at the early development and growth of research networks and agencies, and international and national collaborations. The gradual increase in the velocity and scope of education policy, practice and instruments across Europe is at the heart of the book. The European space of education, a new policy space, has been slowly coaxed into existence; governed softly and by persuasion; developed by experts and agents; and de-politicized by the use of standards and data. It has increasing momentum. It is becoming a single, commensurable space on a rising tide of indicators and benchmarks. The construction of policy spaces by the European Union makes Europe governable: policy spaces have to be mobilized by networks of actors and constructed by comparative data. They are the result of transnational flows of people, ideas and practices across European borders; the direct effects of European Union policy; and, finally, the Europeanizing effect of international institutions and globalization. The European space of education and research has become a new place of work through interconnected institutions, networks and companies, and it is being constructed through the flow of policy ideas, knowledge and practices from place to place, sector to sector, organization to organization, and across borders. This book will be useful to any scholar of the new arena of study, the European Space of Education.

Author : Jan Kalenda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031598272

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Formation of Adult Learning Systems in Central Europe by Jan Kalenda Pdf

Author : Camilla Addey,Nelli Piattoeva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000452365

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Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research by Camilla Addey,Nelli Piattoeva Pdf

What do we actually do when we research education policy and governance? Why do we tame the messy hinterland of research into smooth accounts and what do we lose in the process? In this volume, distinguished scholars in education policy and governance research discuss how the practice of methods is messy, subjective, and provisional. They approach methodology as riddled with tensions, doubts, troubles, and mundane decisions. Scholarship in this book shifts from recording the methodological hinterland to putting it to productive use as resources for thinking about the researched world and about research itself. This methodological openness helps to examine how research reproduces scholars’ metaphysics, how research is a deeply embodied process encompassing all senses, how scholars’ concerns interfere in the worlds they study, but also how these equally interfere with researchers. By challenging smooth methodological accounts which conceal the complex and provisional nature of research, this book offers new approaches in education policy and governance research that are more generative, insightful, and sincere. Offering new ways of thinking about research methodologies, the book will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and post-graduate students in the fields of education research and education theory, as well as social scientists interested in research methodologies more broadly.

Author : Ann Hodgson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Adult education
ISBN : 0749432020

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Policies, Politics and the Future of Lifelong Learning by Ann Hodgson Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Michelle Egan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191529528

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Constructing a European Market by Michelle Egan Pdf

Efforts to tackle the trade impeding effects of divergent standards and regulations are at the core of European economic relations. This volume draws on literature from several disciplines to develop a comprehensive account of the regulatory strategies and institutional arrangements adopted by the EU in promoting the single market in goods. It provides a historical overview and detailed cases studies of the various policy initiatives that have altered the boundaries between the public and private sector in fostering market integration. Tackling interstate barriers to trade has relied heavily on European law to shape the framework of relations between states, and trade liberalization has been facilitated by legal rulings resolving territorial conflicts over regulatory jurisdiction and authority. The European Court of Justice has actively shaped markets, acting as a 'free trade umpire' in balancing the goals of market liberalization and market regulation while fostering market compliance. Although markets are absolutely dependent on public authority, the institutional innovation of the EU has been to use the private sector in an ancillary role to the state. By delegating responsibility to set standards for market access, the EU has chosen to draw on the resources of private actors, resulting in a system of governance that is a distinctive, hybrid model of regulation composed of state and non-state actors. Though the "outsourcing" of public sector regulatory activity was expected to be more effective than the process of regulatory harmonization, progress has been difficult. The current deficit in setting standards for European-wide market access raises concerns about the efficiency and effectiveness of such a regulatory regime. Egan provides a detailed evaluation of that process, highlighting regulatory gaps in the single market and the need to focus not only on the process of market integration, but also its outcome and impact on European business. Comparisons with American efforts to create a national market are made throughout to demonstrate the difficulties of constructing and maintaining a single market. American and European efforts to devise a uniform market for commerce and trade have involved both public and private authorities, though with different degrees of coordination and centralization, as many of the strategies undertaken by the EU echo earlier American market-building efforts.

Author : Philipp Assinger
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643911704

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Education and Training Politics in Europe by Philipp Assinger Pdf

In the past seventy years, education and training have evolved from side issues of political cooperation to political priorities of the EU. For three decades within this period, they were promoted implicitly to enable the mobility of workers in the internal market. Later on, a European dimension of education and training has developed through mobility and cooperation programs and through the lifelong learning discourse. Today, a European policy space of education and training is unfolding, which the EU is coordinating by the means of soft governance arrangements.