Patterns of Lifelong Learning: Policy and Practice in an Expanding Europe: No. 2 (Studies in Lifelong Learning)

Holford, John John Holford, Professor Sheila Riddell, Elisabet Weedon,

ISBN 10: 3825814483 / ISBN 13: 9783825814489

Published by Lit Verlag, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patterns of Lifelong Learning: Policy and Practice in an Expanding Europe: No. 2 (Studies in Lifelong Learning)
• Publisher: Lit Verlag
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3825814483
• ISBN 13: 9783825814489
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.