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Lifelong Learning Policies for Young Adults in Europe : Navigating between Knowledge and Economy

This comprehensive collection discusses topical issues that are essential to both scholarship and policy making in the realm of Lifelong Learning policies and how far they succeed in supporting young people across their life courses, rather than one-sidedly fostering human capital for the economy.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo
Otros Autores: Kovacheva, Siyka
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Between knowledge and economy: lifelong learning policies for young adults in Europe
  • Part I: Lifelong learning between knowledge and economy
  • 1. Lifelong learning policies for young adults in Europe: a conceptual and methodological discussion
  • 2. Coordinated policy-making in lifelong learning: functional regions as dynamic units
  • 3. A social investment perspective on lifelong learning: the role of institutional complementarities in the development of human capital and social participation
  • Part II: Lifelong learning supporting young adults
  • 4. Young adults as a target group of lifelong learning policies
  • 5. The effectiveness of lifelong learning policies on youth employment: do regional labour markets matter?
  • 6. Governing the normalisation of young adults through lifelong learning policies
  • 7. Tackling vulnerability through lifelong learning policies?
  • 8. Are lifelong learning policies working for youth? Young people's voices
  • Part III: Young adults' experiences of lifelong learning in the European Union
  • 9. Assessing young adults' living conditions across Europe using harmonised quantitative indicators: opportunities and risks for policy makers
  • 10. The changing meanings of lifelong learning policies: consequences for young adults and their life courses
  • 11. Telling the story: exploring lifelong learning policies for young adults through a narrative approach
  • Conclusion: Navigating lifelong learning policies in Europe: impacting and supporting young adults' life courses
  • Index
  • Back cover