1st Edition

Flexibility and Lifelong Learning Policy, Discourse, Politics

By Katherine Nicoll Copyright 2006
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

What can the politics of discourse tell us about the discourse of politics? How are flexibility and lifelong learning positioned within policy? Flexibility and lifelong learning have become key aspects of education policy in nation states and bodies such as the European Union and Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development in recent years. They are positioned as necessary for... Read more

1. Departures and Beginnings  2. Meanings of Flexibility and Lifelong Learning  3. A Political, Discursive and Rhetorical Terrain  4. A Realization of Flexibility  5. Mobilizing Flexibility and Lifelong Learning  6. Realizing Lifelong Learning  7. An ‘Odious’ but Slender Wedge

Biography

Katherine Nicoll is Lecturer in Education at the Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK.