Adult and Lifelong Education: Global, National and Local Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138391444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 172 str.

Marcella Milana; John Holford; Vida A. Mohorčič Spolar

Opis

This book explores why those involved in educating post-school young people and adults have quietly abandoned the term ‘education’ in favour of ‘learning’, and reveals key features of the policy environment around adult education. It addresses the developments that have occurred in the area; asks whether increased state awareness actually helps give a voice to the grass-roots needs of local communities, or whether it creates patterns of dependency; and looks at the growing culture of monitoring and testing by governments and research institutes, and how this information can be used and abused. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Spis treści

Introduction – Adult and lifelong education: global, national and local perspectives  1. Making educational spaces through boundary work: territorialisation and ‘boundarying’  2. ‘Ducking and diving’ adult educator agency in testing times: insights from England and New Zealand  3. Immigrants as active citizens: exploring the volunteering experience of Chinese immigrants in Vancouver  4. Lifelong education and learning, societal project and competitive advantage: tensions and ambivalences in policy and planning of educational change in Portugal  5. Filling the gaps: the role and impact of international non-governmental organisations in ‘Education for All’  6. Global, regional and local influences on adult literacy policy in England  7. Comparative performance measures, globalising strategies and literacy policy in Scotland  8. The media construction of an adult literacy agenda in Canada