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Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe

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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 educa...

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Other Authors: Holford, John (Editor), Boyadjieva, Pepka (Editor), Clancy, Sharon (Editor), Hefler, Günter (Editor), Studená, Ivana (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning,
Subjects:
Education.
Education and state.
Educational sociology.
Professional education.
Vocational education.
Education Policy.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Sociology of Education.
Professional and Vocational Education.
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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, andthe Lessons of Enliven.

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