Lifelong learning, young adults and the challenges of disadvantage in Europe

Lifelong learning, young adults and the challenges of disadvantage in Europe / John Holford, Pepka Boyadjieva, Sharon Clancy, Günter Hefler, Ivana Studená, editors.

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 trainin...

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Other Authors: Holford, John (Editor), Boi︠a︡dzhieva, Pepka (Editor), Clancy, Sharon (Editor), Hefler, Günter (Editor), Studená, Ivana (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Series:Palgrave studies in adult education and lifelong learning.
Subjects:
Continuing education > European Union countries.
Continuing education > Australia.
Adult education > European Union countries.
Adult education > Australia.
Young adults > Education > European Union countries.
Young adults > Education > Australia.
Educational equalization > European Union countries.
Educational equalization > Australia.
Adult education
Continuing education
Educational equalization
Young adults > Education
Australia
European Union countries
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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.

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