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The Renewed European Agenda on Adult Learning

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Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy

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This chapter focuses on the Renewed European Agenda on Adult Learning and elucidates the three substantive authoritative functions (i.e. legal, epistemic and procedural) it performs to ease European governance in the adult education policy domain. It traces the development of the European policy objectives in the area of adult learning and the ‘instrumentation’ used to achieve policy coordination and domestic adaptation in the member states. Focusing on the main governance mechanisms and policy instruments used by the European Union (EU) institutions within the Renewed Agenda, the chapter identifies the EU regulatory politics and its wealth redistributive capacity as the two distinctive qualities that differentiate European from global governance in the adult education domain.

This chapter is a shortened version of a previous publication (Milana & Klatt, 2019).

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    For a Social Network Analysis that explores in depth the form of network governance these coordinated working groups/networks create, see Milana, M., Tronca, L. and Klatt, G. (2019). European Governance in Adult Education: On the comparative advantage of joining working groups and networks. European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (pre-published online).

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  1. Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

    Marcella Milana

  2. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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    Marcella Milana

  2. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Gosia Klatt

  3. Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

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Milana, M., Klatt, G. (2020). The Renewed European Agenda on Adult Learning. In: Milana, M., Klatt, G., Vatrella, S. (eds) Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy. Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38069-4_3

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