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Lifelong Learning Policies for Young Adults in Europe: Navigating between Knowledge and Economy

Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Siyka Kovacheva, and Xavier Rambla

Abstract

This comprehensive collection discusses topical issues essential to both scholarship and policy making in the realm of Lifelong Learning policies and how far they succeed in supporting young people across their life courses, rather than one-sidedly fostering human capital for the economy. Examining specific regional and local contexts across Europe, all various in context, this book uses original research to evaluate differences in scope, approach, orientation, and objectives. It enquires into the embedding of LLL policies into the regional economy, the labour market, education and training sy ... More

Keywords: Young adults, lifelong learning policies, Europe, Life Course Research, Regional policies

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2019 Print ISBN-13: 9781447350361
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2020 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447350361.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, editor
University of Münster

Siyka Kovacheva, editor
University of Plovdiv

Xavier Rambla, editor
Autonomous University of Barcelona

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Preface

Introduction

Part I Lifelong learning between knowledge and economy

1 Lifelong learning policies for young adults in Europe: a conceptual and methodological discussion

Marcelo Parreira do Amaral

2 Coordinated policy-making in lifelong learning: functional regions as dynamic units

Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Kevin Lowden, Valeria Pandolfini and Nikolas Schöneck*

3 A social investment perspective on lifelong learning: the role of institutional complementarities in the development of human capital and social participation

Yuri Kazepov, Ruggero Cefalo and Mirjam Pot

Part II Lifelong learning supporting young adults

4 Young adults as a target group of lifelong learning policies

Xavier Rambla, Dejana Bouillet and Borislava Petkova

5 The effectiveness of lifelong learning policies on youth employment: do regional labour markets matter?

Queralt Capsada-Munsech and Oscar Valiente

6 Governing the normalisation of young adults through lifelong learning policies

Risto Rinne, Heikki Silvennoinen, Tero Järvinen and Jenni Tikkanen

7 Tackling vulnerability through lifelong learning policies?

Thomas Verlage, Valentina Milenkova and Ana Bela Ribeiro

8 Are lifelong learning policies working for youth? Young people’s voices

Siyka Kovacheva, Judith Jacovkis, Sonia Startari and Anna Siri

Part III Young adults’ experiences of lifelong learning in the European Union

9 Assessing young adults’ living conditions across Europe using harmonised quantitative indicators: opportunities and risks for policy makers

Rosario Scandurra, Kristinn Hermannsson and Ruggero Cefalo

10 The changing meanings of lifelong learning policies: consequences for young adults and their life courses

Tiago Neves, Natália Alves, Anna Cossetta and Vlatka Domović

11 Telling the story: exploring lifelong learning policies for young adults through a narrative approach

Mauro Palumbo, Sebastiano Benasso and Marcelo Parreira do Amaral

Conclusion

Siyka Kovacheva, Xavier Rambla and Marcelo Parreira do Amaral

End Matter

Index