Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe

Part I Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive and Vibrant Europe.- Lifelong Learning, the European Union, and the Social Inclusion of Young Adults: Rethinking Policy.- Bounded Agency in Policy and Action: Empowerment, Agency and Belonging.- Part II Policies, Programmes and Participation.- Vulnerability in European Lifelong Learning Policies 1992-2018: Seeing Young People as a  Problem to be Fixed?.-  Participation in Adult Learning: System Characteristics and Individuals' Experiences.- Participation of Vulnerable Young Labour Market Groups in Job-Related Training: The Effect of Macro-Structural and Institutional Characteristics.- Gender Gaps in Participation in Adult Education in Europe: Examining Factors and Barriers.- Adult Education as a Pathway to Empowerment: Challenges and Possibilities.- Governing Adult Learning through Influencing Public Debate: How the Media use PIAAC Data in Denmark, Italy and the United Kingdom.- Policy, Practice and Praxis: Computer-Aided Decision Support to Enable Policy Making in Lifelong Learning.- Part III Young Adults' Learning in the Workplace and Beyond.- The Interplay of Organisational and Individual Bounded Agency in Workplace Learning: A Framework Approach.- Working and Learning in the Retail Sector: A Cross-Country Comparative View.- Organisational and Individual Agency in Workplace Learning in the European Metal Sector.- Work and Learning in the Adult Education Sector: A Cross Country Comparative View.- Speaking Up:  How Early Career Workers Engage in Fighting for Better Working Conditions by Joining Youth-Led Social Movement Organisations.- Early Career Workers' Agency in the Workplace: Learning And Beyond in Cross-Country Comparative Perspective.- Part IV Conclusion.- Adult Education, Learning

John Holford is Robert Peers Professor of Adult Education at the University of Nottingham, UK and Co-ordinator of the Enliven project. 
Pepka Boyadjieva is Professor of Sociology in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. 
Sharon Clancy is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK, and was Senior Research Fellow on the Enliven project 2016-2019. 
Günter Hefler is Senior Researcher and Project Manager at 3s (www.3s.co.at), Austria. 
Ivana Studená is a Researcher at the Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences. 

"This book is a powerful and stimulating engagement with the myriad ways in which the positive aspirations of policymakers are altered by the exigencies of local political, social and organisational context." (Alan Tuckett, International Review of Education, Vol. 69 (4), 2023)