The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult education policy: this is the first book to explore a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives researchers can use to investigate its role. Chapters by leading experts and younger scholars from across Europe and beyond cover the evolution of EU policies, the role of policy actors in what is often seen as the black box of EU policy-making, and the contribution state theory can make to understanding the EU and its relations with Europes nations. They consider what theories of governmentality - drawing on...
The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult education policy: this is the first book to explore a range of theore...
The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult education policy: this is the first book to explore a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives researchers can use to investigate its role. Chapters by leading experts and younger scholars from across Europe and beyond cover the evolution of EU policies, the role of policy actors in what is often seen as the black box of EU policy-making, and the contribution state theory can make to understanding the EU and its relations with Europes nations. They consider what theories of governmentality - drawing on...
The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult education policy: this is the first book to explore a range of theore...
The worldwide appearance and expression of adult education and lifelong learning have changed significantly during the past 20 years. This book explores recent changes in their related national and international policies, how they intersect with developments in higher education and how they may contribute to debates on citizenship and democracy.
The worldwide appearance and expression of adult education and lifelong learning have changed significantly during the past 20 years. This book explor...
Global Networks, Local Actions: Rethinking adult education policy in the 21st century examines public policy developments in adult education, exploring the policy framing of adult education practice in a range of socio-cultural contexts, and contributing to the development of policy research from global and comparative perspectives.
Drawing from multidisciplinary fields such as adult education, comparative and international education, and sociology, chapters analyse empirically grounded studies from the US, Italy, Argentina and Brazil. Each study helps to identify...
Global Networks, Local Actions: Rethinking adult education policy in the 21st century examines public policy developments in adult educati...
Adult and Lifelong Education explores why politicians, researchers, and practitioners involved in educating post-school young people and adults have quietly abandoned the term education in favour of learning . Bringing together contributions from experienced as well as younger scholars, and from Europe, North America, and Australasia, it draws on global, national, and local perspectives to reveal key features of adult education s policy environment.
At the book s heart are three main concerns. First, what is the spatial reach of these developments, and what processes of fluidity and...
Adult and Lifelong Education explores why politicians, researchers, and practitioners involved in educating post-school young people and adults hav...
