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Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe
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 …
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- 9783031141096
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- xxxviii, 467p. : ill.
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- 374 LIF l
International and comparative studies in adult and continuing education
This volume gives theoretical and practical insights in international and comparative research in the field of adult and continuing education. The 16 contributions of this volume give three perspectives on international and comparative adult education. The first perspective focuses on the question how internationalisation and comparative adult and continuing education can be taught. The second …
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- 9788855181549
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- 235p; ill
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- 374 INT b
Content Embedded Literacy in The Workplace
The topic of embedded literacy, closely connected to embedded learning on one hand, and training in the workplace on the other, is a central theme for reflection on adult education in Europe and around the world. The Council of Europe indicates knowledge as a pivotal element for the economic and social development of the EU countries and the workplace is an important place for the learning and …
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- 9788864530871
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Adult education and work contexts : international perspectives and challenges…
Adult education has deep connections with employment contexts. This volume discusses interrelations within transnational contexts studied during the Würzburg Winter School on Comparative Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (COMPALL). The book shows that adult education and work contexts are influenced by international and transnational developments. The findings are presented in t…
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- 9783631737033
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- 223 p. ; ill
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- 374 EGE a
Adult language education and migration : challenging agendas in policy and pr…
Adult Language Education and Migration: Challenging Agendas in Policy and Practice provides a lively and critical examination of policy and practice in language education for adult migrants around the world, showing how opportunities for learning the language of a new country both shape and are shaped by policy moves. Language policies for migrants are often controversial and hotly contested, b…
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- 9781315718361
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- xvii, 225 p.
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- 306.449 SIM a
Young adults and active citizenship: towards social inclusion through adult e…
This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as a means to engage and re-engage young adults and facilitate their life chances and social inclusion thus contributing to an active citizenship within their societal contexts. This coll…
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- 9783030650025
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- XV, 182 p.
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- Lifelong Learning Book Series, 26
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- 374 YOU y
Joint modules and internationalisation in higher education : reflections on t…
This volume places the development of the Joint Module «Comparative Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning» (COMPALL) in the context of international development in higher education and adult education. Based on this framework, the authors discuss the development of the joint module in terms of its institutional and didactical structure as well as participants’ motivation and dive…
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- 9783631736258
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- 196 p.
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- Studien zur Paedagogik, Andragogik und Gerontagogik / Studies in Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Gerontagogy, 71
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- 378.016 JOI j
Lifelong learning policies for young adults in Europe : navigating between kn…
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 res…
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- 9781447350668
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- XXVII, 260 p.
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- 374.94 LIF l
The Para-academic handbook: a toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting
"There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic. Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has become distorted by neo-liberal marke…
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- 9780956450753
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- viii, 312p.: ill.
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- 378.11 PAR p
Regional Governance and lifelong learning policies
his document constitutes the Comparative Study of the Precoll project – Policies for Regional Cooperation in Lifelong Learning, led by the Università degli Studi di Firenze-Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione e dei Processi Culturali e Formativi / University of Florence-Department of Educational Sciences and Cultural and Training Processes, in partnership with Generalitat de Catalunya (S…
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- 9788884536730
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- 96p.: ill
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- 374.1102 FRA r
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