Supporting Lifelong Learning

Richard Edwards, Nod Miller, Nick Small, Alan Tait

• 1. Themes and Questions for a Research Agenda on Lifelong Learning 2. On a Contradictory Way to the 'Learning Society': A Critical Approach 3. Lifelong Learning and Underemployment in the Knowledge Society: A North American Perspective 4. Social Capital, Human Capital and the Learning Society 5. The Comparative Dimension in Continious Vocational Training: A Preliminary Framework 6. Post School Education and Training Policy in Developmental States: The Cases of Taiwan and South Korea 7. Lifelong Learning and Welfare Reform 8. Change of Address? Educating Economies in Vocational Education and Training 9. Breaking the Concensus: Lifelong Learning as Social Control 10. Governing the Ungovernable: Why Lifelong Learning Policies Promise so Much Yet Deliver so Little