EAN: 9783031141119

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN ADULT EDUCATION AND LIFELON...

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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