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Qualification, Socialisation and/or Subjectification -- Three International Organisations' Prioritisation of the Purposes of Adult Education and Learning from the 1970s to the 2010s
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Larson, Anne; Cort, Pia – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2022
This article examines the purposes UNESCO, OECD and EU historically have attributed to adult education and learning. The aim is to explore changes in international adult education and learning policies from the 1970s until the present day and outline how different international organisations have pushed for specific conceptualisations of what…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Role of Education, Adult Education, Global Approach
Busting the Myth of Low-Skilled Workers--Destabilizing EU LLL Policies through the Life Stories of Danes in Low-Skilled Jobs
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Cort, Pia; Mariager-Anderson, Kristina; Thomsen, Rie – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
In the EU, ambitious objectives have been set for education and training since the adoption of the Lisbon Agenda in 2000. The policies aim among other things to empower the individual through participation in lifelong learning which is seen as both a right and a duty: 'People need to want and to be able to take their lives into their own hands--to…
Descriptors: Unskilled Workers, Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Lifelong Learning