Lifelong Learning Young Adults And The Challenges Of Disadvantage In Europe

Author : John Holford,Pepka Boyadjieva,Sharon Clancy,Günter Hefler,Ivana Studená
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo,Kovacheva, Siyka
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781447350361

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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 : Karen Evans,Wing On Lee,Jörg Markowitsch,Miriam Zukas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1330 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Marcella Milana,Palle Rasmussen,Margherita Bussi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Pepka Boyadjieva,Petya Ilieva-Trichkova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030671365

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Adult Education as Empowerment by Pepka Boyadjieva,Petya Ilieva-Trichkova Pdf

This book re-imagines the essence and role of adult education at both the individual and societal levels. It provides arguments for understanding adult education as a process of agency and empowerment, which has not only instrumental but intrinsic and transformative roles to play. This book brings together ideas from the capability approach with insights from recognition theory; the embeddedness approach; the political economic perspective for understanding public and private goods and the common goods perspective. The analysis draws on data from large-scale international studies – alongside qualitative data - and adopts a wide-ranging European comparative perspective. The book develops original instruments for measuring different dimensions of adult education as a common good, and its realisation in different social contexts. It is aimed at academics, students, practitioners, and policy makers interested in adult and/or higher education and the social justice perspective to human life.

Author : Maria Slowey,Heribert Hinzen,Michael Abiola Omolewa,Michael Osborne
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9791221502527

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Adult Education and Social Justice: International Perspectives by Maria Slowey,Heribert Hinzen,Michael Abiola Omolewa,Michael Osborne Pdf

This book investigates the ways in which the social purposes of adult education are (re)interpreted over time, and between the global south and global north. It brings together thirty-seven authors from fourteen countries with extensive experience as academics and/or practitioners in the field. The book is inspired by the work and life of Lalage Bown, a leading proponent of post-colonial and inclusive visions of education for all. Over her long life she worked tirelessly to promote access to basic and higher education for people of all ages and backgrounds: with a deep commitment to striving for greater equality for women. Following an Introduction, the book is structured around four main themes: Adult Education and Social Justice; Decolonisation, Post-Colonialism and Indigenous Knowledge; From Literacy to Lifelong Learning; and, Fostering Excellence, Policy Development and Supporting Future Generation of Adult Educators. The book concludes with reflections on Lalage Bown’s Enduring Legacy.

Author : Sharon Clancy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031359552

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Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age by Sharon Clancy Pdf

This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948-1976) and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan is acknowledged as the godfather of new-age spiritualism in the UK and is credited with the development of eclectic and esoteric learning opportunities in arts, traditional crafts, culture and ecology. Embodying the spirit of a new national drive for optimism and enterprise in the post-war period, Trevelyan, and his contemporaries at other colleges, took risks and innovated in new pedagogical approaches to adult education, capturing the imagination of hundreds of students, before being stifled by an increasingly restrictive policy framework and financial strictures. The book considers the ideological drivers and tensions behind this unique form of education - its inception, evolution and virtual demise - and seeks to learn from its complex history to inform education in the future.

Author : Mihai Dascalu,Óscar Mealha,Sirje Virkus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789819955404

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Smart Learning Ecosystems as Engines of the Green and Digital Transition by Mihai Dascalu,Óscar Mealha,Sirje Virkus Pdf

The book brings together the contributions of the 8th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development aimed at promoting reflection and discussion on the relevance of smart learning ecosystems for regional development and social innovation (e.g., schools, campuses, working places, informal learning contexts) and on how the effectiveness of the relation of citizens and smart ecosystems can be boosted. This forum is interested in understanding how technology-mediated instruments can foster the citizen’s engagement with learning ecosystems and territories, namely by understanding innovative human-centric design and development models/techniques, education/training practices, informal social learning, innovative citizen-driven policies, technology-mediated experiences, and their impact. This set of concerns contributes to fostering the social innovation sectors and ICT, economic development, and deployment strategies alongside new policies for smarter proactive citizens.

Author : Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo,Kovacheva, Siyka
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Sebastiano Benasso,Dejana Bouillet,Tiago Neves,Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Kathy Davis,Helma Lutz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000920666

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The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality Studies by Kathy Davis,Helma Lutz Pdf

Intersectionality is one of the most popular theoretical paradigms in gender studies and feminist theory today. Initially developed to explore how gender and race interact in the experiences of US women of colour, it has since been taken up in different disciplines and national contexts, where it is used to investigate a wide range of intersecting social identities and experiences of exclusion and subordination. This volume explores intersectionality studies as a burgeoning international field with a growing body of research, which is increasingly drawn upon in policy, political interventions, and social activism. Bringing together contributors from different disciplines and locations, The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality Studies maps the history and travels of intersectionality between continents and countries and takes up debates surrounding the privileged role of race in intersectional analysis, the ways in which intersectional analysis should or should not be carried out, and the political implications of thinking intersectional analysis and thought. Opening up new avenues of enquiry for a future generation of scholars and practitioners, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender studies, politics, and cultural studies with interests in feminist thought, social identity, social exclusion, and social inequality.

Author : Helen Colley,European Youth Research Partnership
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287161003

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Social Inclusion for Young People by Helen Colley,European Youth Research Partnership Pdf

Social exclusion, the polarisation of the types of chances life offers to different groups of young people, is increasing and is concentrated in some regions and neighbourhoods. Social class, race and gender can contribute to this phenomenon, as can other inequalities such as disability. Social inclusion is therefore one of the central goals of European policies towards young people, especially in relation to employment, lifelong learning and vocational guidance. This publication contains an edited collection of articles from a research seminar held in Budapest in October/November 2005 and organised within the framework of the Partnership on Youth between the Council of Europe and the European Commission.

Author : Ellu Saar,Odd Bjorn Ure
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857937360

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Lifelong Learning in Europe by Ellu Saar,Odd Bjorn Ure Pdf

Based on a 5-year research project conducted by experts in 13 countries, this comprehensive book analyses the ways in which national characteristics frame the Lifelong Learning agenda.

Author : Sabine Schmidt-Lauff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Adult education
ISBN : 383001094X

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Adult Education and Lifelong Learning by Sabine Schmidt-Lauff Pdf

Author : López Blasco, Andreu,McNeish, Wallace
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847425836

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Young people and contradictions of inclusion by López Blasco, Andreu,McNeish, Wallace Pdf

Young people and contradictions of inclusion critically assesses policies addressing young people's transitions from school to employment. It presents and discusses the findings of seven EU-funded projects involving 13 countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.