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Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe (Paperback, 1st ed. 2023)
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Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe (Paperback, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
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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 people’s 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.
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