Research handbook on adult education policy / edited by Marcella Milana (Associate Professor of Education, Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Italy), Palle Rasmussen (Professor Emeritus of Education, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Denmark) and Margherita Bussi (Assistant Professor of Adult Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Louvain, Belgium).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milana, Marcella, editor.

Rasmussen, Palle, editor.

Bussi, Margherita, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adult education--Government policy--Research--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Adult education.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"Bringing together an impressive array of esteemed and emerging academics, the Research Handbook on Adult Education Policy addresses how adult learning and education policies are made, and the theories and methodologies which can be mobilised to study its developments. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, researchers from both the Global South and North outline theoretical frameworks and methodologies for studying adult education policy, exploring long-standing issues and recent societal trends that affect its framing. This Research Handbook examines and explains supranational, international and national levels of governance and policy in adult education and considers the contributions of adult education policies to continuing societal development. Looking ahead, contributing authors make vital recommendations for future avenues of research in this continually evolving field, in particular emphasising the need to separate adult education policy from economic growth. This Handbook is an excellent resource for researchers, academics and students in adult education, sociology and social policy and politics and public policy. Emphasising the critical importance of adult learning and education, it also benefits adult education practitioners, policymakers and adult learning advocacy organisations at the national and international level"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction: Politics, policy and the governance of adult learning and education / Palle Rasmussen, Marcella Milana, and Margherita Bussi

Part I. Perspectives and approaches to researching adult education policy

2. Meshes of power in adult education policy / Beatrix Niemeyer

3. Revisiting a theoretical model to understand adult learning and education policies / Licínio C. Lima and Paula Guimarães

4. Qualitative content analysis in adult education policy research: Developing a coding framework and conducting categorical analysis / Elizabeth A. Roumell

5. Educational governance and policy implementation studies as new perspectives for adult education policy research / Alexandra Ioannidou and Michael Schemmann

6. Social movement's contribution to adult learning and education policy: A habermasian sociological perspective / Kapil Dev Regmi

Part II. Current and long-standing challenges in adult education policy

7. Beyond the human capital approach to adult education policy: How adult learning and education policy matters for indivudal subjective well-being? / Pepka Boyadjieva and Petya Ilieva-Trichkova

8. Platformisation and policy: Towards digital governance of adult learning and education / Tomás Karger and Jan Kalenda

9. Adult education policy in times of change: The implications of the covid-19 crisis on danish policies / Pia Cort and Anne Larson

Part III. Supranational and international governance and policy

10. Transational adult education governance and policy: The role of oecd and unesco / Maren Elfert and Palle Rasmussen

11. The ideational policy trajectory of EU adult learning and skills policies up to covid-19 / Margherita Bussi and Marcella Milana

12. Promoting action or licensing inaction? International influences on Indian policy of adult education / Shalini Singh

13. Adult learning and education policy within francophone Africa / Idowu Biao

Part IV. Policy and societal development

14. Us adult basic education policy: Reading between the lines of a (mostly) workforce-oriented policy / Alisa Belzer

15. Practicing performance accountability in us adult basic education: A community case study / Alexis Cherewka and Esther Prins

16. Adult learning and education policy mobilities: Following adult learning and education policy development in Slovenia / Borut Mikulec

17. Re-skilling and inequalities of capabilities in France: How socio-economic groups matter / Camille Stephanus and Josiane Vero

18. Employee's continued training in wallonia: A challenge for the active welfare state / Bernard Conter

Part V. Dimensions of adult education governance

19. Hybrid political regimes and adult education - the example of serbia / Katarina Popović and Maja Maksimović

20. Adult education as a weak policy priority in the czech national context: Searching for the reasons / Martin Kopecký, Michal Šerák, and Martin Sycha

21. What does it take to influence adult education policymaking in Canada? / Jude Walker

22. Policy discussions, subjects, and actions in youth and adult education in Mexico (2000-2020) / Gloria Elvira Hernández Flores, Carmen Campero Cuenca and Ana María Méndez Puga

23. Analysis of Ghana's adult learning and education policy environment and governance framework: Towards meeting the goal of lifelong learning for all / Michael A. Tagoe and Ellen Abakah

24. Conclusion: Lessons learned from and for adult education policy research / Margherita Bussi, Marcella Milana and Palle Rasmussen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781803925950 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.