Challenging the 'European Area of Lifelong Learning' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Challenging the 'European Area of Lifelong Learning' write by George K. Zarifis. This book was released on 2013-10-29. Challenging the 'European Area of Lifelong Learning' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book critically reflects on the context in which lifelong learning policies and practices are organized in Europe with contributions of researchers and policy makers in the field. Through a critical lens the book reinterprets the core content of the messages that are conveyed by the European Commission in the “Memorandum for Lifelong Learning”, the most important policy document in the area, which after a decade from its publication still remains the vehicle for all current developments in lifelong learning in Europe. With references to research findings, proposed actions, and applications to immediate practice that have an added value for Europeans –but which either do not appear to correspond directly to what is stipulated by the European Commission, or are completely ignored as part of the lifelong learning process– the book offers an analytic and systematic outlook of the main challenges in creating the ‘European Area of Lifelong Learning’. In times as decisive as the ones we are going through today (both in social and economic terms), a critical perspective of the practices and policies adopted by the EU Member States is essential. The book follows the same structure as the Memorandum in order to debate and critically approach in separate sections the core issues that Europe faces today in relation to the idea of making a ‘European area of Lifelong Learning’.
A European Area of Lifelong Learning
A European Area of Lifelong Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A European Area of Lifelong Learning write by European Commission. This book was released on 2002. A European Area of Lifelong Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The publication...consists of two parts: 1)Commission Communication adopted on 21 November 2001, "Making a European Area of lifelong learning a reality" COM (2001) 678 and 2)"Lifelong learning - indicators and practice" which is based on the Commission staff working document (28 November 2001) entitled "Lifelong learning-practice and indicators' SEC (2001) 1939"--[P.] 2 of cover.
Patterns of Lifelong Learning
Patterns of Lifelong Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Patterns of Lifelong Learning write by John Holford. This book was released on 2008. Patterns of Lifelong Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the European Union, lifelong learning has become a means of achieving both competitiveness and social cohesion in an increasingly knowledge-based and globalised economy. Though the concept of lifelong learning is not new, it now coincides with a period of rapid EU expansion. The research project the book is based on examines how lifelong learning is understood and operationalised, especially in countries within the area of the EU's expansion. Europe, its policy-makers and peoples, need to know whether lifelong learning can contribute to the construction of a European identity - and if so, how. The research points to the importance of diverse national contexts, which suggests a single model of lifelong learning across the EU is unlikely to be achieved. While the EU may encourage a common policy, and this may generate significant national policy developments, these will be strongly influenced by national context: institutional, political, social, ideological. Many countries will continue - consciously or unconsciously - to "pick and choose" between different EU priorities.
Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy
Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy write by Marcella Milana. This book was released on 2020-07-20. Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores European governance and policy coordination within lifelong learning markets. Using an instruments approach, the editors and contributors examine the ways in which governance mechanisms employed by the European Union influence policy to regulate lifelong learning, and intervene in lifelong learning markets, at both European and national levels. Filling an important gap in the current literature, this book examines how strengthened policy coordination at the EU level contributed to the blurring of boundaries between policy fields and the redefinition of the function of adult education after the 2008 recession. Divided into three parts, this book draws on a range of case studies from countries including Spain, Denmark, Bulgaria and the UK. It will be of interest and value to students and scholars of education policy and governance, adult education and lifelong learning.
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Southeastern Europe
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Southeastern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Southeastern Europe write by George A. Koulaouzides. This book was released on 2017-09-12. Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Southeastern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary adult education policy development and lifelong learning practice are experiencing an autonomy loss imposed by the dominant neoliberal economic paradigm. As a consequence, in many countries, especially those that depend economically from supranational organizations and donors, the critical approach and its adjunct idea of emancipation have been sacrificed in favour of ambiguous developmental goals like employability, flexibility and adaptability. On the other hand, in many countries, adult education as a social movement is deeply rooted in the conviction that learning is an essential process related to personal transformation and social change. The result of this conflict between the external pressure for policies in favour of the labour market and the internal assumption about the value of emancipation has led to interesting insights that have produced policies and practices that attempt to reconcile these two forces of development. In this volume, we offer a consideration of the above paradoxical situation, and the critical view of adult education policy and practice in the region of Southeastern Europe. Some chapters in this volume present also positive lifelong learning practices, policy development analyses and conceptual understandings that highlight the efforts to develop adult education within a framework of the dominant neoliberal forces that shape European and international adult education policy.
