基本説明
Looks at the contribution of lifelong learning to economic growth and social cohesion across Europe, focusing its challenge to social exclusion.
Full Description
The ongoing economic crisis raises fundamental questions about the political and social goals of the European Union, particularly the feasibility of harmonising social and education policy across member states. The forward momentum of the European project is clearly faltering, raising the possibility that the high water mark of European integration has been achieved, with implications for many aspects of education and social policy, including lifelong learning.
This timely book makes a major and original contribution to the development of knowledge and understanding of lifelong learning in an expanded Europe. Its wide range of contributors look at the contribution of lifelong learning to economic growth and social cohesion across Europe, focusing its challenge to social exclusion. It draws on comparative data from the EU Sixth Framework Project Lifelong Learning Policy and Practice in Europe (LLL2010), which ran from 2005 - 2011 and involved twelve European countries and Russia. Very little research has been conducted to date on the nature of lifelong learning in post-Soviet countries, and this book provides important insights into their evolving education and lifelong learning systems.
The book will be of interest to researchers and academics in the UK and Europe, especially those from social policy, adult and comparative education, equality studies and practice of lifelong learning.
Contents
Lifelong Learning and the Generation of Human and Social Capital ‾ Sheila Riddell and Elisabet Weedon; Lifelong learning and the wider European socio-economic context ‾ Sheila Riddell and Elisabet Weedon; Neoliberal and inclusive themes in European lifelong learning policy ‾ John Holford and Vida A. Mohorcic Špolar; Formal adult education in the spotlight: profiles, motivations and experiences of participants in 12 European countries ‾ Ellen Boeren, Eve-Liis Roosmaa, Ides Nicaise and Ellu Saar; The socio-demographic obstacles to participating in lifelong learning across Europe ‾ Peter Robert; The qualification providing enterprise? Support for formal adult education in small and medium sized enterprises ‾ Günter Hefler and Jörg Markowitsch; Reducing or reinforcing inequality: assessing the impact of European policy on widening access to higher education ‾ Elisabet Weedon and Sheila Riddell; Conclusion: The role of lifelong learning in reducing social inequality at a time of economic crisis ‾ Sheila Riddell.
