Overview
- Uses an instruments approach to analyse the ways in which EU governance mechanisms influence policy to regulate lifelong learning and adult education
- Examines these policies at both European and national levels, including case studies from Spain, Denmark, Bulgaria and the UK
- Analyses how strengthened policy at the European level contributed to the redefinition of the function of adult education
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (PSAELL)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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European Governance and Policy Coordination
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Youth Guarantee and Its Domestic Adaptation
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Reviews
“This book makes a significant and rigorous contribution to policy studies in the field of adult education, for which the team of authors are to be congratulated.” (Alan Tuckett, International Review of Education, Vol. 66, 2020)
“This timely book successfully tackles the challenge of analysing the complexities of the influence of European governance on national lifelong learning markets through strategic policy coordination. One of its strengths is the multidisciplinary consortium of scholars that contributed their theoretical, empirically informed insights to make it a must read for academics and practitioners alike with an interest in the domestic adaptation of Europe’s lifelong learning markets.” (Pascaline Winand, College of Europe, Natolin, Poland)
“A highly important and timely edited collection on a topic of remarkable and growing significance... Well-theorised and featuring empirical examples from a range of countries and contexts, this book is thoroughly recommended for students and scholars interested in the field of the European governance of lifelong learning.” (Sotiria Grek, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)“Through a collection of important essays, this bookcombines a detailed analysis of a range of policy instruments and mechanisms with which the European Union has emerged as a major force in the areas of education, training and youth, with empirically rich national studies of the domestic responses to and adaptations of EU policies. A scholarly, yet accessible, addition to the field that will be invaluable for those seeking to better understand the governance of the European education policy space.” (Manuel Souto-Otero, Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
“It is impossible to understand the governance mechanisms and the complex policy instruments adopted by the European Union without admitting the influence of public management ideologies and its promotion of the ‘entrepreneurial spirit’. Being aware of that impact on education and learning policies the authors make use of an ‘instruments approach’ to better understand the tensions between the Europeanization processes and the domestic adaptation undertaken by memberstates and national institutions. This is certainly a book worth reading.” (Licínio C. Lima, University of Minho, Portugal)“‘European Union education policy’ can appear as a contradiction in terms. Education policy is a matter of national competence for Member States to determine, and yet coordinating cross-EU education policy is an area where an oftentimes troubled institution has demonstrated some of its most significant impact. This volume, with its focus on adult and vocational education policy across Europe makes an enormous contribution to helping us understand this apparent contradiction. Theoretically robust and forensically sharp, the authors help to open up the EU governance structures that are not only shaping adult and vocational education, but are having a significant impact on European social policy coordination beyond education. The contributions are essential reading for all those interested in education policy at a European level, but will also be of interest to anyone seeking to rediscover and reinvent the potentialities of a more social Europe.” (Howard Stevenson, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gosia Klatt is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Vocational and Educational Policy at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests cover education policy, education systems, transitions from school, post-communist transitions, Europeanisation and intergovernmental relations in Australia and Europe.
Sandra Vatrella is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Verona, Italy. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Research, and specialises in education policies, adult education, and prison ethnography. She has published on prison education and Italian education policies and governance, among other topics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Europe's Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy
Book Subtitle: Using an Instruments Approach
Editors: Marcella Milana, Gosia Klatt, Sandra Vatrella
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38069-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38068-7Published: 21 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38071-7Published: 22 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38069-4Published: 20 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-6313
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6321
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 474
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Education Policy, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, International and Comparative Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership