Participation in Lifelong Learning: Reality or Myth? Issues Arising from a United Kingdom Coalfield Closure

Autor/inn/en	Thursfield, Denise; Henderson, Roger
Titel	Participation in Lifelong Learning: Reality or Myth? Issues Arising from a United Kingdom Coalfield Closure
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 56 (2004) 1, S.117-136 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-6820
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Retraining; Employment Services; Lifelong Learning; Politics of Education; Economics; Job Layoff; Adult Education; Education Work Relationship; Government Role; Career Change; Mining; Persuasive Discourse; Educational Policy; Educational Objectives; Occupational Surveys; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Umschulung; Employment service; Arbeitsvermittlung; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Beurlaubung; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Career changes; Berufswechsel; Abbau; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Politics of education; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Berufsanalyse; Großbritannien
Abstract	In the spring of 2004, the Selby Coalfield, the largest of the remaining coal mines in the United Kingdom (UK) will close and 2071 employees will lose their jobs. The impact of the closure will be severe in the surrounding area, and will present a challenge to local employment services and training agencies. It will also test the UK government's rhetoric on the importance of lifelong learning. The primary objective of this article is to investigate the issues emerging from the retraining programme implemented to ease the transition from mining to alternative forms of employment. It questions the veracity of the New Labour government's commitment to lifelong learning in practice. Our research suggests that the retraining programme to assist the Selby miners does not meet the expectations engendered by the UK government's rhetoric on lifelong learning and calls into question the New Labour government's commitment to lifelong learning in practice. (Contains 2 tables and 2 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10