Supporting Lifelong Learning Making Policy Work

Summary: This book focuses on policy development in lifelong learning at local, regional, national and supra-national levels. The international team of contributors explore and examine the policy context for lifelong learning, the policies themselves and their effects when implemented. In particular, they focus on the role of lifelong learning policy in relation to issues of economic competitiveness, technological change and ...social inclusion. This book provides a comparative international approach and encourages the reader to evaluate lifelong learning as a response to the globalising of educational policy. It will appeal to postgraduate and doctorate level students with an interest in post-school education and training. This book is one of three readers prepared for the Open University MA Course: E845 Supporting Lifelong Learning. The readers provide a greater depth to the examination of lifelong learning by considering the implications for teaching and learning, managing learning and policy making, in three separate volumes. They bring together for the first time theories from a diverse range of disciplines which are now central to our understanding of lifelong learning and provide a new and distinctive contribution to the field. [read more]