Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Presents the results of a trans-European research project
- Provides innovative insights into EU policy processes and their outcomes
- Includes contributions from leading scholars in the field
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (PSAELL)
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About this book
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.
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“This book is a powerful and stimulating engagement with the myriad ways in which the positive aspirations of policymakers are altered by the exigencies of local political, social and organisational context.” (Alan Tuckett, International Review of Education, Vol. 69 (4), 2023)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
John Holford is Robert Peers Professor of Adult Education at the University of Nottingham, UK and Co-ordinator of the Enliven project.
Pepka Boyadjieva is Professor of Sociology in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Sharon Clancy is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK, and was Senior Research Fellow on the Enliven project 2016-2019.
Günter Hefler is Senior Researcher and Project Manager at 3s (www.3s.co.at), Austria.
Ivana Studená is a Researcher at the Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Pepka Boyadjieva is Professor of Sociology in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Sharon Clancy is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK, and was Senior Research Fellow on the Enliven project 2016-2019.
Günter Hefler is Senior Researcher and Project Manager at 3s (www.3s.co.at), Austria.
Ivana Studená is a Researcher at the Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe
Editors: John Holford, Pepka Boyadjieva, Sharon Clancy, Günter Hefler, Ivana Studená
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14109-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14108-9Published: 24 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14111-9Published: 24 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14109-6Published: 23 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-6313
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6321
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 467
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Education Policy, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Sociology of Education