Supporting Lifelong Learning

Abstract

This is one of three volumes prepared for the Open University Master of Arts (MA) course ‘Supporting lifelong learning’. These three volumes provide an in-depth examination of lifelong learning from the perspectives of teaching and learning, organising learning and policy making. In this volume, the focus is on policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, national and international levels, particularly on the role of lifelong learning policy in relation to issues of economic competitiveness, technological change and social inclusion. The chapters are: Themes and questions for a research agenda on lifelong learning / Albert Tuijnman; On a contradictory way to a ‘learning society’: a critical approach / Peter Alheit; Lifelong learning and underemployment in the knowledge society: a North American perspective / D. W. Livingstone; Social capital, human capital and the learning society / Tom Schuller and John Field; The comparative dimension in continuous vocational training: a preliminary framework / Isabelle Darmon, Carlos Frade and Kari Hadjivassiliou; Post-school education and training policy in development states: the cases of Taiwan and South Korea / Francis Green, Donna James, David Ashton and Johnny Sung; Lifelong learning and welfare reform / Colin Griffin; Change of address?: educating economics in vocational education and training / Jane Kenway; Breaking the consensus: lifelong learning as social control / Frank Coffield; Governing the ungovernable: why lifelong learning policies promise so much yet deliver so little / John Field.