Lifelong Learning Policies across the Globe—Focus on Young Adults
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2023) | Viewed by 2115
Special Issue Editors
Interests: comparative and international education; education policy studies; lifelong learning and education institutions; education policy and governance issues at various levels and scales; implications for educational trajectories; issues of access to and equity in education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For many years now, Lifelong Learning (LLL) Policies have been in focus of research on the life courses of young people. Emphasising different relations from early childhood to adult learning and stressing the universal right to education, they have also focused on the economic, political and social aspects of the life courses of young generations, including support for so-called ‘vulnerable’ or ‘multi-disadvantaged’ groups. Constant source of criticism, however, has long been the narrow economic and functional/instrumental orientation to learning, competences and educational outcomes. Across the globe, LLL policies represent one of the main policy approaches to intervene and support young people in their transition to adulthood, sometimes opening up opportunities, sometimes exacerbating their situations, or even at times making it very difficult for young people to pursue and achieve their own life visions and plans.
This special issue of Societies invites conceptual and empirical papers examining how LLL policies impact the lives of young people across the globe. We welcome contributions from all regions of the world, in particular from the Southern hemisphere, and those focusing on groups in vulnerable or multi-disadvantaged situations.
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We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
Dr. Jozef Zelinka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lifelong learning
- young people
- youth policies
- education and work transitions
- life course/biography
- vulnerability
- multi-disadvantaged youth
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