Adult Education Policy and the European Union

ISBN-13: 9789462095465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 194 str.

Marcella Milana; John Holford

Opis

The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult educationpolicy: this is the first book to explore a range of theoretical and methodologicalperspectives researchers can use to investigate its role. Chapters by leadingexperts and younger scholars from across Europe and beyond cover the evolutionof EU policies, the role of policy actors in what is often seen as the black box ofEU policy-making, and the contribution state theory can make to understandingthe EU and its relations with Europes nations. They consider what theories ofgovernmentality - drawing on the work of Foucault - can contribute. And theydemonstrate how particular methodological approaches, such as policy trails, andthe contribution the sociology of law, can make. Contributors include both specialistsin adult education and scholars exploring how work from other disciplines cancontribute to this fi eld.This is the fi rst book in a new series from the European Society for Research in theEducation of Adults, and draws on work within its Network on Policy Studies inAdult Education.