Patterns of Lifelong
Learning
Policy & Practice
in an Expanding Europe
John
Holford, Sheila Riddell, Elisabet Weedon, Judith Litjens, Guy Hannan
Studies
in Lifelong Learning, Bd. 2, 2009
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978-3-8258-1448-9
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For
the European Union, lifelong learning has become a means of
achieving
both competitiveness and social cohesion in an increasingly
knowledge-based
and globalised economy. Though the concept of lifelong
learning
is not new, it now coincides with a period of rapid EU
expansion.
The research project the book is based on examines how
lifelong
learning is understood and operationalised, especially in
countries
within the area of the EU's expansion.
Europe,
its policy-makers and peoples, need to know whether lifelong
learning
can contribute to the construction of a European identity -
and
if so, how. The research points to the importance of diverse
national
contexts, which suggests a single model of lifelong learning
across
the EU is unlikely to be achieved. While the EU may encourage a
common
policy, and this may generate significant national policy
developments,
these will be strongly influenced by national context:
institutional,
political, social, ideological. Many countries will
continue
- consciously or unconsciously - to pick and choose
between
different EU priorities.
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