Lifelong learning, young adults and the challenges of disadvantage in Europe / John Holford, Pepka Boyadjieva, Sharon Clancy, Günter Hefler, Ivana Studená, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holford, John, editor.

Boi︠a︡dzhieva, Pepka, editor.

Clancy, Sharon, editor.

Hefler, Günter, editor.

Studená, Ivana, editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in adult education and lifelong learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continuing education--European Union countries.

Continuing education.

Continuing education--Australia.

Adult education--European Union countries.

Adult education.

Adult education--Australia.

Young adults--Education--European Union countries.

Young adults.

Young adults--Education--Australia.

Educational equalization--European Union countries.

Educational equalization.

Educational equalization--Australia.

Young adults--Education.

Australia.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 467 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

Summary:

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 peoples 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.

Contents:

Part I Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive and Vibrant Europe

Lifelong Learning, the European Union, and the Social Inclusion of Young Adults: Rethinking Policy

Bounded Agency in Policy and Action: Empowerment, Agency and Belonging

Part II Policies, Programmes and Participation

Vulnerability in European Lifelong Learning Policies 1992-2018: Seeing Young People as a Problem to be Fixed?

Participation in Adult Learning: System Characteristics and Individuals Experiences

Participation of Vulnerable Young Labour Market Groups in Job-Related Training: The Effect of Macro-Structural and Institutional Characteristics

Gender Gaps in Participation in Adult Education in Europe: Examining Factors and Barriers

Adult Education as a Pathway to Empowerment: Challenges and Possibilities

Governing Adult Learning through Influencing Public Debate: How the Media use PIAAC Data in Denmark, Italy and the United Kingdom

Policy, Practice and Praxis: Computer-Aided Decision Support to Enable Policy Making in Lifelong Learning

Part III Young Adults Learning in the Workplace and Beyond

The Interplay of Organisational and Individual Bounded Agency in Workplace Learning: A Framework Approach

Working and Learning in the Retail Sector: A Cross-Country Comparative View

Organisational and Individual Agency in Workplace Learning in the European Metal Sector

Work and Learning in the Adult Education Sector: A Cross Country Comparative View

Speaking Up: How Early Career Workers Engage in Fighting for Better Working Conditions by Joining Youth-Led Social Movement Organisations

Early Career Workers Agency in the Workplace: Learning And Beyond in Cross-Country Comparative Perspective

Part IV Conclusion

Adult Education, Learning Citizens, and the Lessons of Enliven.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: LIFELONG LEARNING, YOUNG ADULTS AND THE CHALLENGES OF DISADVANTAGE IN EUROPE.

ISBN:

9783031141096

3031141091

OCLC:

1374244811

Access Restriction:

Open access

Restricted for use by site license.