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oapen-20.500.12657-623682024-03-28T08:18:51Z Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe Holford, John Boyadjieva, Pepka Clancy, Sharon Hefler, Günter Studená, Ivana lifelong learning adult education vulnerable adults and education adult education policy workplace learning Europe and lifelong learning thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNP Adult education, continuous learning thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNR Careers guidance::JNRV Industrial or vocational training thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology 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 education and training, and learn more day-to-day at work, if provision is democratically organised and based on enduring and inclusive institutional networks, and when jobs encourage and reward the acquisition of skills. Using innovative qualitative and quantitative methods, the contributors develop a critical perspective on dominant policies, investigating – across the European Union and Australia – how ‘vulnerable’ young adults experience programmes designed to improve their ‘employability’, and how ‘skills for jobs’ policies squeeze out wider – and wiser – ideas of what education and training should do. Chapters show why some provision works for those with poor educational backgrounds, why labour market and educational institutions matter so much, how adult education can empower and expand people’s agency, and the challenges of using artificial intelligence in lifelong learning policy-making. Several investigate the pivotal role of workplace learning in organisational life, and in learning during ‘emerging adulthood’. Important comparative studies of workplace learning in the metals, retail and adult education sectors show the role of management, trade unions and social movements in young adults’ learning. 2023-04-13T14:02:56Z 2023-04-13T14:02:56Z 2023 book ONIX_20230413_9783031141096_6 9783031141096 9783031141089 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62368 eng Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-14109-6.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-14109-6 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-14109-6 10.1007/978-3-031-14109-6 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 3983007a-5726-4f1e-b9df-3fbc771f2916 9783031141096 9783031141089 Palgrave Macmillan 467 Cham [...] European Commission European Union open access
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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 education and training, and learn more day-to-day at work, if provision is democratically organised and based on enduring and inclusive institutional networks, and when jobs encourage and reward the acquisition of skills. Using innovative qualitative and quantitative methods, the contributors develop a critical perspective on dominant policies, investigating – across the European Union and Australia – how ‘vulnerable’ young adults experience programmes designed to improve their ‘employability’, and how ‘skills for jobs’ policies squeeze out wider – and wiser – ideas of what education and training should do. Chapters show why some provision works for those with poor educational backgrounds, why labour market and educational institutions matter so much, how adult education can empower and expand people’s agency, and the challenges of using artificial intelligence in lifelong learning policy-making. Several investigate the pivotal role of workplace learning in organisational life, and in learning during ‘emerging adulthood’. Important comparative studies of workplace learning in the metals, retail and adult education sectors show the role of management, trade unions and social movements in young adults’ learning.
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