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

• Main Author: Evans, Karen. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Lifelong Learning Book Series ; 13
• Subjects: Education.; Sociology of Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9759-1

The political consensus on lifelong learning which marked the end of the 20th 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 revol...

Table of Contents:

• Editorial by Series Editors
• Authors Introduction
• 1. Learning for a Living: the powerful, the dispossessed and the learning revolution
• 2. Taking Control? early adult life in contrasting social landscapes
• 3. Students Anticipating the Future
• 4. Workers in Control of the Present?- 5. Living at the Margins and Finding Ways to Work
• 6. Gender, Work and Learning
• 7. Participation, Social Life and Politics
• 8. Beyond Individualisation: human strivings for control of their lives
• 9. Systems and Societies in Transition: challenging inequalities, choosing inclusion
• Index.