Why's the Beer Always Stronger Up North?: Studies of Lifelong Learning in Europe: ESRC Learning Society Series
Editat de Frank Coffielden Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 ian 1999
This collection of papers takes a new, critical line on lifelong learning. Over the last few decades in the English-speaking world, a powerful consensus has developed about the need for nothing less than a revolution in education and training to maintain economic competitiveness. Politicians of the left, middle and right, trade union and business leaders have repeatedly promoted this rhetoric, choosing lifelong learning as the solution to a wide range of economic, social and political problems.This report draws on empirical research which challenges this consensus in Germany, France and Spain, as well as in the UK. It suggests that instead lifelong learning may be better viewed as contested terrain between employers, unions and the state. It argues that lifelong learning is being turned into a moral obligation and a form of social control, and that the demands on employees to become and remain everlastingly employable are escalating.The report raises many critical and controversial issues in examining the concepts of 'The Learning Society', 'The Learning Organisation' and 'Lifelong Learning' as they are being translated into practice in the UK with similar projects in a number of European countries. It also compares British initiatives. For example, footloose employers claim to be developing 'learning organisations' to which employees are expected to be totally committed, while being treated as totally expendable. The equation does not add up.The report is essential reading for all politicians, policy makers, employers, trade unionists and educationalists keen to develop a Learning Society within the UK.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781861341310
ISBN-10: 1861341318
Pagini: 88
Dimensiuni: 210 x 292 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press
Seria ESRC Learning Society Series
ISBN-10: 1861341318
Pagini: 88
Dimensiuni: 210 x 292 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press
Seria ESRC Learning Society Series
Recenzii
... important reading for anyone with an interest in contemporary and emergent changes to the institutions of education, and so in the purpose, distribution and practices of education and learning at this time in our histories. Studies in the Education of Adults
... should be read by all social scientists as they show how a research programme can produce a body of knowledge which has clarified and extended our understanding of what are very common yet at the same time contested debates around lifelong learning and a learning society. BSA Network
Notă biografică
Frank Coffield, Institute of Education, University of London
Cuprins
Notes on contributors
Introduction: lifelong learning as a new form of social control?
Frank Coffield
1. Lifelong learning: learning for life? Some cross-national observations
Walter Heinz
2. Models of guidance services in the learning society: the case of the Netherlands
Teresa Rees and Will Bartlett
3. The comparative dimension in continuous vocational training: a preliminary framework
Isabelle Darmon, Carlos Frade and Kari Hadjivassiliou
4. Inclusion and exclusion: credits and unités capitalisables compared
Pat Davies
5. Using 'social capital' to compare performance in continuing education
Tom Schuller and Andrew Burns
6. Issues in a 'home international' comparison of policy strategies: the experience of the Unified Learning Project
David Raffe, Cathy Howieson, Ken Spours and Michael Young
7. Planning, implementation and practical issues in cross-national comparative research
Antje Cockrill, Peter Scott and John Fitz
Introduction: lifelong learning as a new form of social control?
Frank Coffield
1. Lifelong learning: learning for life? Some cross-national observations
Walter Heinz
2. Models of guidance services in the learning society: the case of the Netherlands
Teresa Rees and Will Bartlett
3. The comparative dimension in continuous vocational training: a preliminary framework
Isabelle Darmon, Carlos Frade and Kari Hadjivassiliou
4. Inclusion and exclusion: credits and unités capitalisables compared
Pat Davies
5. Using 'social capital' to compare performance in continuing education
Tom Schuller and Andrew Burns
6. Issues in a 'home international' comparison of policy strategies: the experience of the Unified Learning Project
David Raffe, Cathy Howieson, Ken Spours and Michael Young
7. Planning, implementation and practical issues in cross-national comparative research
Antje Cockrill, Peter Scott and John Fitz