Lifelong Learning Participation in a Changing Policy Context (eBook)

An Interdisciplinary Theory

Ellen Boeren (Autor)

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2016
205 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
9781137441836 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawing on the role of individuals, education and training providers and countries' social policy actions, and borrowing insights from psychology, sociology and economics, this book works towards an interdisciplinary theory of adult lifelong learning participation. It explores the fragmented evidence of why adults do or do not participate in adult lifelong learning activities and focuses on the relevance of policy, the social character and expected benefits of lifelong learning participation and discusses the potential implications for policy, practice and research.

Autor

Ellen Boeren is Chancellor's Fellow at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK. She obtained her PhD at the University of Leuven (Belgium). Her research agenda mainly focuses on the participation of adults in lifelong learning. She is the Programme Director of the University of Edinburgh's Master in Educational Research.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Contents 6
List of Figures and Tables 9
Preface 10
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction 12
Part I: Background 17
1 Adult Lifelong Learning Participation: Definitions and Contexts 18
Why participation 18
The changing policy context 29
The problem of participation 32
The focus on benchmarks and indicators 35
Conclusions 46
2 Trends and Barriers in Adult Lifelong Learning Participation 47
Trends in the participation literature 47
Europe 51
North America 54
South America 57
Australia 59
Asia and the Pacific 60
Africa and the Middle East 61
General trends 63
Barriers preventing adult lifelong learning participation 63
Conclusions 66
Part II: The Contribution of Disciplines toan Interdisciplinary Theory 67
3 Lifelong Learning Participation: The Behavioural Perspective 68
Participation as the result of an underlying decision-making process 68
The role of motivation 72
Participation persistence among current adult learners 81
The role of the educator as facilitator of participation satisfaction 82
Changes across the life span 83
Conclusions 89
4 Lifelong Learning Participation: The Micro Sociological Perspective 90
Social class 90
Social mobility 93
Cost–benefit analysis 94
Conclusions 102
5 Lifelong Learning Participation: Institutional Barriers 103
Lifelong learning offers 104
Lifelong learning course modes 105
Three levels of access indicators 107
Workplaces as institutional learning environments 108
The role of information 111
Conclusions 115
6 Lifelong Learning Participation: Country Level Determinants 116
Macro level determinants of participation 117
The role of country typologies 126
Motivational differences across countries 135
Standardising adult lifelong learning 137
Participation outcomes differ by country 140
Conclusions 141
7 Lifelong Learning Participation: The Need for Integration 142
Contribution of different disciplines to the understanding of adult lifelong learning participation 142
The interplay of structure and individual agency 144
Integrative lifelong learning participation theories 147
Revisiting participation theories 153
Part III: Advancing Research and Practice 156
8 Measuring Adult Lifelong Learning Participation 157
UNESCO-OECD-EUROSTAT 157
Different surveys: different results? 163
Surveys as research representing the positivist paradigm 166
The vagueness of participation 167
Alternative scenarios for measuring adult lifelong learning participation 169
Conclusions 170
9 Implications for Policy, Practice and Research 172
Recommendations for policy 172
Recommendations for practice 176
Recommendations for future research 179
Final conclusions 182
References 184
Index 208

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: X, 205 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Adult Education • Behavior • Education • Education Policy • Integration • interdisciplinary research • learning • Lifelong Learning • Participation • Psychology • Social Policy • Sociology
• ISBN-13: 9781137441836 / 9781137441836