Overview
- Analyzes the implementation of the Memorandum for Lifelong Learning from a wide range across the European Union
- Helps understanding and interpreting the different dimensions of lifelong learning
- Brings forward new aspects of lifelong learning that are critically positioned towards European policy trends
Part of the book series: Lifelong Learning Book Series (LLLB, volume 19)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Lifelong Learning and New Basic Skills for All
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Lifelong Learning and More Investment in Human Resources
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Lifelong Learning, Innovative Teaching and Learning, and Rethinking Guidance and Counselling
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Lifelong Learning and Valuing Learning
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Keywords
- APEL-type systems
- Access to adult education
- Access to learning
- Bringing learning closer to home
- Developing counseling and guidance
- Educational research in teaching and learning
- European Area of Lifelong Learning
- Home-schooling
- Investment in learning
- LLP
- Lifelong Learning Programme
- Lifelong and life-wide learning
- Lifelong learning in Europe
- Lifelong learning policy
- Lifelong learning practice
- Memorandum for Lifelong Learning
- Self-directed learning
- Social and economic benefits from learning
- Universal and continuing access to learning
- Validation of learning
About this book
This book critically reflects on the context in which lifelong learning policies and practices are organized in Europe with contributions of researchers and policy makers in the field. Through a critical lens the book reinterprets the core content of the messages that are conveyed by the European Commission in the “Memorandum for Lifelong Learning”, the most important policy document in the area, which after a decade from its publication still remains the vehicle for all current developments in lifelong learning in Europe. With references to research findings, proposed actions, and applications to immediate practice that have an added value for Europeans –but which either do not appear to correspond directly to what is stipulated by the European Commission, or are completely ignored as part of the lifelong learning process– the book offers an analytic and systematic outlook of the main challenges in creating the ‘European Area of Lifelong Learning’. In times as decisive as the ones we are going through today (both in social and economic terms), a critical perspective of the practices and policies adopted by the EU Member States is essential. The book follows the same structure as the Memorandum in order to debate and critically approach in separate sections the core issues that Europe faces today in relation to the idea of making a ‘European area of Lifelong Learning’.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenging the 'European Area of Lifelong Learning'
Book Subtitle: A Critical Response
Editors: George K. Zarifis, Maria N. Gravani
Series Title: Lifelong Learning Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7299-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7298-4Published: 13 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0649-8Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7299-1Published: 29 October 2013
Series ISSN: 1871-322X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5325
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 319
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Teaching and Teacher Education