Trends and Barriers in Adult Lifelong Learning Participation

Abstract

The policy context of participation and the role of agencies in influencing lifelong learning discourses at the global level have been explored in the previous chapter, but what about trends in participation in different continents across the globe? What are the specificities of these regions’ policies to stimulate lifelong learning participation and what data is available to provide an overview of current trends? In addition, I aim to explore trends in relation to recent scholarly writings in the field of adult lifelong learning participation.