Lifelong Learning and Social Justice: Communities, Work and Identities in a Globalised World
| Title | Lifelong Learning and Social Justice: Communities, Work and Identities in a Globalised World |
| Author(s) | Sue Jackson |
| Organisation | NIACE |
| Date | June 2011 |
| No. of pages | 291+ |
| Key words | Lifelong learning; social justice; community learning; employment and skills; social value; inequality; individual choice |
| Description | The current policy focus on lifelong learning ensures a gendered and class-based skills-driven agenda, with lifelong learners expected to become neo-liberal students rather than empowered members of communities. What complexities and challenges arise from attempts to align lifelong learning with social justice? What are the costs of a focus on learning which rests on economic imperatives? This book with contributory chapters by several authors is divided into Sustaining Communities, Learning and Working, and Identities. |
| Select quotations | “…‘choice’ is illusory and the unequal participation of non-traditional students in education is indicative of social injustice, even if it appears traceable to individual choice.” |
| Link for browsing | http://shop.niace.org.uk/lifelong-learning-social-justice.html |
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