"LIFELONG LEARNING IN EUROPE, Vol. II - DIFFERENCES AND DIVISIONS.
Strategies of Social Integration and Individual Learning Biographies"

This book concentrates on the contradictions of lifelong learning policies.
It takes up the discussion on the potentials and limitations of lifelong
learning that have been raised in the first volume of the 'Lifelong learning
in Europe'-series.
On the one hand flexibilisation and individualisation require a
differentiation of learning opportunities according to individual needs and
aspirations, social positions and biographical perspectives. On the other
hand the diversification of policies for different target groups often
implies inequalities in terms of social recognition and usability of
qualifications. The relationship between differences and divisions is
analysed theoretically as well as in concrete case studies. Potentials of
lifelong learning are critically analysed with regard to both formal
education and informal learning situations embedded in the context of
community or (sub)cultural practice.

COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
Walther, Andreas & Stauber, Barbara (Eds.): Lifelong Learning in Europe,
Vol. II - Differences and Divisions. Strategies of Social Integration and
Individual Learning Biographies. Tuebingen: Neuling Verlag 1999. ISBN
3-922859-51-8, 247 pages, DM 30,00 (16,00 EURO).

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CONTENTS:

Introduction:

- Lifelong Learning between Differences and Social Divisions: The Squaring
of the Circle?
(Barbara Stauber & Andreas Walther, Tübingen)
- Learning Between Want And Must: Contradictions of the Learning Society.
(Manuela du Bois-Reymond & Andreas Walther, Leiden/Tübingen)

Differences and Divisons:

- Lifelong Learning and the Reproduction of Inequalities: A Pessimistic View
(Andy Furlong, Glasgow)
- The Importance of Gender for the Concept of Lifelong Learning (Claudia
Born, Bremen)
- Indicators of the Learning Society. Transitions towards Lifelong Learning
in the Mirror of an International Research Project (Wolfgang Jütte,
Flensburg)
- Young People Struggling With Lifelong Learning - The Irish Context:
Progression After 'Youthreach' (Elizabeth Kiely, Cork)
- The 'Incubator': A Learning Model for Women's Self-employment (Morena
Cuconato, Bologna)
- Lifelong Learning in Dependance of Citizenship. EU Migrant Women's
Struggle for Self-determination in Ireland (Lydia Sapouna, Cork)
- Lifelong Learning by Further Training - New Opportunities for Women?
Experiences from a Transnational Study (Roberta Bartoletti, Jutta Goltz,
Roberta Paltrinieri, Anne Schwarz
& Barbara Stauber, Bologna/Tübingen)
- Women's Ways of Learning for Work: Learning and Work in Female Biographies
(Veerle Stroobants, Leuven)

Informal spheres of lifelong learning: Arts and the Community:

- Informal Learning and Social Contexts: The Case of Peer Education (Sven
Mørch, Copenhagen)
- Voluntary Work as a Lifelong Learning Process (Arno Heimgartner, Graz)
- Lifelong Learning against AIDS: The Importance of being Networked
(Gabriele Lenzi, Bologna)
- Community Activism in Areas of Multiple Disadvantage: Creating Social
Capital and Promoting Lifelong Learning (Mark Cieslik, Teesside)
- Lifelong Learning, Community Action and European Citizenship (Mafalda
Margarido Santos, Lisbon)
- Young Peoples' Identities, Informal Learning and Cultural Orientation in
the Context of Ethnic Minorities (Federica Zanetti, Bologna)
- 'Catching the Trapeze in a Lifelong Learning Society': A Comparative
Discussion of Unconventional Educational Strategies for 'Disadvantaged'
Young People (Rui Manuel Bargiela Banha, Ana Micaela Gaspar, Maria do Carmo
Gomes, Steve Miles & Axel Pohl, Lisbon/Plymouth/Tübingen)

Conclusions and Perspectives:

- Shifting Articulations between Social Arenas and Individual Biographies:
The Learning Society as a 'Risk Society' (Barry J. Hake, Leiden)

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