Lifelong Learning in Europe : National Patterns and Challenges
Based on a five-year research project across thirteen countries, this comprehensive book analyses how national characteristics frame a central feature of European Union social and economic policies - lifelong learning. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in a wide-ranging international comparative study, the book explores how far the EUs lifelong learning agenda has been successful and what factors have limited its ability to reshape national adult and lifelong learning systems. The chapters also look at adults' participation in formal education, what they see as the obstacles to ta
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; PART I Conceptual considerations; 1. Lifelong learning: national policies from the European perspective; 2. Lifelong learning systems: overview and extension of different typologies; 3. Seven types of formal adult education and their organizational fields: towards a comparative framework; PART II Country studies; 4. Has lifelong learning policy and practice in Scotland promoted social inclusion?; 5. 'Renaissance' without enlightenment: New Labour's 'Learning Age' 1997-2010. 6. Rising to the challenge of realizing lifelong learning for one and all: the role of community adult education in widening participation for traditionally marginalized groups in Irish society and beyond7. Flemish formal adult education: (g)rowing against the stream?; 8. In search of building blocks for lifelong learning: motivation and institutional support in Norwegian education and training; 9. Nobody's darling: dynamics and inertia in formal adult education in Austria. 10. Implementation of lifelong learning in Slovenia: institutional factors and equality of access of adults to formal and non-formal educaiton11. Why are the participation rates in lifelong learning so low in Hungary?; 12. The lifelong learning hybrid: the case of Bulgaria; 13. Formal adult education in the context of the transforming labour market in Russia; 14. Adult education in Lithuania: towards increasing employability and social cohesion, or neither?; 15. Developing human capital in post
socialist capitalism: Estonian experience. Conclusion: lifelong learning as a social field and entrance point to policy-making for education and trainingAppendix; Index