Learning, Work and Social Responsibility: Challenges for Lifelong Learning in a Global Age

✍ Scribed by Prof. Karen Evans (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Series: Lifelong Learning Book Series 13
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The political consensus on lifelong learning which marked the end of the 20^th century fundamentally reshaped discourses on the role of lifelong learning. In ‘knowledge-based’ economies, we are engaged in a lifelong competition for livelihoods; learning for a living as part of a global learning revolution.

The argument (of the author), put simply, revolves around social justice, and active and engaged citizenry. Policies to encourage lifelong learning are based on the view that individuals must learn new things primarily to secure employment in an ever-changing world. The result of these policies has been to open up unsustainable inequalities which ordinary people are unlikely to tolerate for much longer. For politicians, bringing politics closer to the world and aspirations of ordinary people will mean seeking solutions based on broader and fairer forms of meritocracy and bringing work and the pursuit of broader social purposes into a better balance at all levels of the social world.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Learning for a Living: The Powerful, the Dispossessed and the Learning Revolution....Pages 1-28
Taking Control?: Early Adult Life in Contrasting Social Landscapes....Pages 29-53
Students Anticipating the Future....Pages 55-85
Workers in Control of the Present?....Pages 87-117
Living at the Margins and Finding Ways toWork....Pages 119-146
Gender, Work and Learning....Pages 147-173
Participation, Social Life and Politics....Pages 175-197
Beyond Individualisation: Human Strivings for Control of Their Lives....Pages 199-226
Systems and Societies in Transition: Challenging Inequalities, Choosing Inclusion....Pages 227-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-274

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Education; International and Comparative Education; Professional & Vocational Education; Educational Policy and Politics