Global Perspectives on Adult Education and Learning Policy

The worldwide appearance and expression of adult education and lifelong learning have changed significantly during the past 20 years. This book explores recent changes in their related national and international policies, how they intersect with developments in higher education and how they may contribute to debates on citizenship and democracy.

“Milana and Nesbit’s contribution to the Palgrave series on Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy is much needed. … this is an excellent and captivating volume that leaves the reader hungering for greater depth and analysis. The case studies are almost all interesting and informative and they are a welcome first step in the growing area of policy analysis in adult education and lifelong learning.” (Amy D. Rose, Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 67 (1), February, 2017)“This is a very authoritative resource book on the current status of policies on adult education and lifelong learning in the countries and international agencies represented. It will definitely serve well as a professional guide for any reader to acquire a realistic understanding of the context in order to prepare practitioners and policy makers to link rhetoric with practice in the field of adult education and lifelong learning.” (Tiedao Zhang, International Review of Education, August, 2016)“This book … reflect historical trajectories which have led to policy intersections between adult education and higher education and the inclusion of chapters from lesser-written-about countries such as Palestine, Scotland, the Czech Republic, South Korea and Ghana. … As a complementary text to the more mechanistic, but more global, coverage of country contexts that is now provided through UNESCO’s Global Reports on Adult Learning and Education, this book provides a useful and insightful contribution.” (Julia Preece, International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, Vol. 8 (2), May, 2016)

Idowu Biao, University of Botswana, Botswana Ana Canen, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Peter Easton, Florida State University, USA John Field, University of Stirling, UK Keith Hammond, University of Glasgow, UK Martin Kopecký, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic In Tak Kwon, Chonbuk National University, South Korea Sayantan Mandal, Universidad de Deusto, Spain Tonic Maruatona, University of Botswana, Botswana Lesley McBain, University of California, USA Marcella Milana, Aarhus University, Denmark Tom Nesbit, Simon Fraser University, Canada Balázs Németh, University of Pécs Hungary Eugenia A. Panitsides, University of Macedonia, Greece Kjell Rubenson, University of British Columbia, Canada Malaika Samples, Florida State University, USA Michal erák, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Michael Tagoe, University of Ghana, Ghana Alan Tuckett, University of Wolverhampton, UK Raúl Valdés-Cotera, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), Germany