Taking steps. Formal adult education in private and organisational life.

Autor/in	Hefler, Günter
Titel	Taking steps. Formal adult education in private and organisational life. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Schritte machen. Formale Erwachsenenbildung im privaten und organisatorischen Leben.
Quelle	Wien: Lit Verl. (2013), 240 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Studies in lifelong learning. 5
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-3-643-90096-8
Schlagwörter	Kompetenz; Partizipation; Erwachsenenbildung; Organisationsentwicklung; Lebenslanges Lernen; Hochschulschrift; Organisation; Organisationskultur; Asien; Deutschland; Frankreich; Großbritannien; Japan; Nordamerika; Ostasien; USA; Österreich
Abstract	"Formal adult education definitely exists as a phenomenon, yet few researchers have tried to explain it. Contrary to non-formal educational courses, the 'social charter' of formal adult education allows an adult learner to become eligible for taking steps upwards on educational and career ladders. Anchored in organizational institutionalism and based on empirical studies in 12 European countries done within a large-scale research project within the Sixth EU Framework Program (LLL2010), this book explores the link between individual participation, educational provision and employers' responses to provide the institutional basis for fulfilling one central promise of lifelong learning: support for social mobility. However, societies differ widely in how they institutionalize formal adult education. This book - as the first monograph on formal adult education - clarifies the concept's origin, develops a theory on and a typology of formal adult education, discusses individual participation patterns and considers its role within companies' training cultures. Finally, it explores opportunity structures for formal adult education in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, France and Japan." (publisher's description).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2014/2