Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe / / edited by John Holford, Pepka Boyadjieva, Sharon Clancy, Günter Hefler, Ivana Studená.
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 t...
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| Superior document: | Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XXXVIII, 467 p. 27 illus.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive and Vibrant Europe
- Lifelong Learning, the European Union, and the Social Inclusion of Young Adults: Rethinking Policy
- Bounded Agency in Policy and Action: Empowerment, Agency and Belonging
- Part II Policies, Programmes and Participation
- Vulnerability in European Lifelong Learning Policies 1992-2018: Seeing Young People as a Problem to be Fixed?
- Participation in Adult Learning: System Characteristics and Individuals’ Experiences
- Participation of Vulnerable Young Labour Market Groups in Job-Related Training: The Effect of Macro-Structural and Institutional Characteristics
- Gender Gaps in Participation in Adult Education in Europe: Examining Factors and Barriers
- Adult Education as a Pathway to Empowerment: Challenges and Possibilities
- Governing Adult Learning through Influencing Public Debate: How the Media use PIAAC Data in Denmark, Italy and the United Kingdom
- Policy, Practice and Praxis: Computer-Aided Decision Support to Enable Policy Making in Lifelong Learning
- Part III Young Adults’ Learning in the Workplace and Beyond
- The Interplay of Organisational and Individual Bounded Agency in Workplace Learning: A Framework Approach
- Working and Learning in the Retail Sector: A Cross-Country Comparative View
- Organisational and Individual Agency in Workplace Learning in the European Metal Sector
- Work and Learning in the Adult Education Sector: A Cross Country Comparative View
- Speaking Up: How Early Career Workers Engage in Fighting for Better Working Conditions by Joining Youth-Led Social Movement Organisations
- Early Career Workers’ Agency in the Workplace: Learning And Beyond in Cross-Country Comparative Perspective
- Part IV Conclusion
- Adult Education, Learning Citizens, and the Lessons of Enliven.