Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This comprehensive collection discusses topical issues essential to both scholarship and policy making in the realm of lifelong learning (LLL) 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 yet diverse regional and local contexts across Europe, this book uses original research to evaluate differences in scope, appr...

Satiiri Seitsemästä veljeksestä, jotka seikkailevat hullussa nyky-Suomessa. Veljekset Frederik, Sauli, Tami, Jorma, Matti, Andy ja Kimi tapaavat hurjilla reissuillaan julkkiksia ja kaiken maailman eliittiä.Käänteitä syntyy, kun maailma on muuttunut, mutta miehet ei.”Painomustekin punastuu tällaista kohellusta, eikä tätä voida kääntää millekään sivistyskielelle!””Puhtaiden ja ylevien taiteen ihanteiden rinnalle nousee kansanomainen nauru”.- Näin sanottiin aik...

This book brings together leading scholars in Global Studies in Education to reflect on how various developments of historic significance have unsettled the neoliberal imaginary of globalization. The developments include greater recognition of inequalities and the changing nature of work and communication; the emergence of new technologies of governance; a greater awareness of geopolitical shifts; the revival of nationalism, populism and anti-globalization sentiments; and the recognition o...

The question of quality has become one of the most important framing factors in education and has been of growing interest to international organisations and national policymakers for decades. Politics of Quality in Education focuses on Brazil, China, and Russia, part of the so-called emerging nations’ BRICS block, and draws on a four-year project to develop a new theoretical and methodological approach.The book builds a comparative, sociohistorical, and transnational unde...