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Current Trends in Lifelong Learning in the Russian Federation: Current Developments

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Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning

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Lifelong learning throughout the world, and particularly in the USA, the UK, Germany, Japan and Canada, has been influenced by a tide of economic rationalism and neo-conservative ideology. Since the 1990s, in Europe, lifelong learning increasingly reflected a neo-liberal ideology, focusing on economic, rather than humanistic, goals.

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Zajda, J. (2012). Current Trends in Lifelong Learning in the Russian Federation: Current Developments. In: Aspin, D., Chapman, J., Evans, K., Bagnall, R. (eds) Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2360-3_27

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