Full Description
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This comprehensive collection discusses topical issues essential to both scholarship and policy making in the realm of lifelong learning (LLL) policies and how far they succeed in supporting young people across their life courses, rather than one-sidedly fostering human capital for the economy.
Examining specific yet diverse regional and local contexts across Europe, this book uses original research to evaluate differences in scope, approach, orientation, and objectives. It examines the embedding of LLL policies into the regional economy, the labour market, education and training systems and the individual life projects of young people, with a focus on those in situations of near social exclusion.
Contents
Introduction: Between knowledge and economy: Lifelong learning policies for young adults in Europe - Xavier Rambla, Siyka Kovacheva and Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
PART I: Lifelong learning between knowledge and economy
Lifelong learning policies for young adults in Europe: a conceptual and methodological discussion - Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
Coordinated policy-making in lifelong learning: functional regions as dynamic units - Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Kevin Lowden, Valeria Pandolfini and Nikolas Schöneck
A social investment perspective on lifelong learning: the role of institutional complementarities in the development of human capital and social participation - Yuri Kazepov, Ruggero Cefalo and Mirjam Pot
PART II: Lifelong learning supporting young adults
Young adults as a target group of lifelong learning policies - Xavier Rambla, Dejana Bouillet and Borislava Petkova
The effectiveness of lifelong learning policies on youth employment: do regional labour markets matter? - Queralt Capsada-Munsech and Oscar Valiente
Governing the normalisation of young adults through lifelong learning policies - Risto Rinne, Heikki Silvennoinen, Tero Järvinen and Jenni Tikkanen
Tackling vulnerability through lifelong learning policies? - Thomas Verlage, Valentina Milenkova and Ana Bela Ribeiro
Are lifelong learning policies working for youth? Young people's voices - Siyka Kovacheva, Judith Jacovkis, Sonia Startari and Anna Siri
PART III: Young adults' experiences of lifelong learning in the European Union
Assessing young adults' living conditions across Europe using harmonised quantitative indicators: opportunities and risks for policy makers - Rosario Scandurra, Kristinn Hermannsson and Ruggero Cefalo
The changing meanings of lifelong learning policies: consequences for young adults and their life courses - Tiago Neves, Natália Alves, Anna Cossetta and Vlatka Domović
Telling the story: exploring lifelong learning policies for young adults through a narrative approach - Mauro Palumbo, Sebastiano Benasso and
Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
Conclusion: Navigating lifelong learning policies in Europe: impacting and supporting young adults' life courses - Siyka Kovacheva, Xavier Rambla and Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
