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Ilieva-Trichkova, Petya – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
The present paper discusses the potential of the capability approach in conceptualizing and understanding lifelong learning as an agency process, and explores its capacity to guide empirical studies on lifelong learning. It uses data for 20 countries from the Adult Education Survey (2007; 2011) and focuses on aspirations for lifelong learning. The…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Academic Aspiration, Aspiration, Foreign Countries
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Biggart, Andy; Järvinen, Tero; Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo – European Education, 2015
In this article institutional and structural factors relating to access to education are assessed. First, the macro frameworks of institutional regulation that exert influence on the educational trajectories of young Europeans are demonstrated. Based on different aspects of these frameworks and drawing from extant research, the article presents a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Practices, Classification
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Ule, Mirjana; Živoder, Andreja; du Bois-Reymond, Manuela – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
This article explores parental involvement in the educational trajectories of children in Europe. The analysis is embedded in the framework of the three dominant contemporary social processes that have been acknowledged as crucial factors for the educational and life trajectories of young people today, i.e. familialization, institutionalization,…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Qualitative Research, Parent Attitudes, Economically Disadvantaged