Learning, Work and Social Responsibility Challenges for Lifelong Learning in a Global Age /

• Main Author: Evans, Karen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Lifelong Learning Book Series ; 13
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

The political consensus on lifelong learning which marked the end of the 20th century fundamentally reshaped discourses on the role of lifelong learning. In ‘knowledge-based’ economies, we are engaged in a lifelong competition for livelihoods; learning for a living as part of a global learning revol...

Table of Contents:

• Learning for a Living: The Powerful, the Dispossessed and the Learning Revolution
• Taking Control?: Early Adult Life in Contrasting Social Landscapes
• Students Anticipating the Future
• Workers in Control of the Present?
• Living at the Margins and Finding Ways toWork
• Gender, Work and Learning
• Participation, Social Life and Politics
• Beyond Individualisation: Human Strivings for Control of Their Lives
• Systems and Societies in Transition: Challenging Inequalities, Choosing Inclusion.