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Kalenda, Jan; Kocvarováa, Ilona; Boeren, Ellen – European Journal of Education, 2023
The impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on nonformal adult education has become a frequently discussed issue in lifelong learning. Nonformal adult education is understood here as all organised adult learning outside formal education that usually does not result in official certification. Many scholars have considered the pandemic as the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Participation, Barriers
Guitert, Montse; Romeu, Teresa; Baztán, Pablo – European Journal of Education, 2021
There has been a lot of interest to competence-based education in research and scholarship. How competence-based education has been developed and implemented varies across education systems in Europe. The European Commission defines digital competence as one of the eight key competence standards for lifelong learning. The European digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competency Based Education, Elementary Education, Secondary Education
Gmaj, Iwona; Fijalkowska, Barbara – European Journal of Education, 2021
This article showcases the Polish validation system through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis and two models of lifelong learning--the economic and humanistic one, treated as competitive narratives on lifelong learning. We argue that some contradictions can be observed, generated by a clash between the two approaches, as the validation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis
Duvekot, Ruud; Onstenk, Jeroen – European Journal of Education, 2021
Organisations that support employees to take responsibility and ownership for their lifelong learning can reinforce the return on investment in human resources development (HRD). In this way, learning is a process driven by a dialogue on personal development and steered by HRD. The result of this dialogue is mutually beneficial to employers and…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Informal Education, Lifelong Learning, Labor Force Development
Villalba-García, Ernesto – European Journal of Education, 2021
Validation of non-formal and informal learning has been gaining political momentum in Europe within the implementation of lifelong learning policies since the early 2000s. Policy documents claim a variety of education, socio-political and economic benefits from the implementation of validation, making validation a "hero" for lifelong…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Informal Education, Lifelong Learning, Program Validation
Looney, Janet; Santibañez, Barbara – European Journal of Education, 2021
The European Union has set the goal to make lifelong learning a reality for more people through the creation of flexible pathways to improve access to higher levels of education and employment. Validation of non-formal and informal learning (VNFIL), which is intended to make learning from everyday work and life visible, is an important means to…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Informal Education, Disadvantaged, Alternative Assessment
Desjardins, Richard – European Journal of Education, 2019
Active ageing has become a policy concept that serves as an important response to the ageing of many societies, primarily because it is thought to lead to positive outcomes such as increased employment, productivity, health and other well-being into older ages. This article presents results of an analysis of the relationship between attaining…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Age Differences, Employment, Health
Midtsundstad, Tove; Nielsen, Roy A. – European Journal of Education, 2019
The number of people aged 60 and over across the globe is expected to double by 2050, reaching a share of more than 20 percent of the population total. Governments are therefore taking more and more policy actions to encourage ageing workers to extend their working lives and their employers to retain them. According to the OECD lifelong learning…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Older Adults, Employment Patterns, Adult Education
Carlsten, Tone Cecilie; Olsen, Dorothy Sutherland – European Journal of Education, 2019
One of the challenges of keeping older employees up to date and ensuring their continued involvement in the workplace is to provide them with relevant learning opportunities. This article aims to understand the usefulness of the concept of LLL for a group of older employees (50+). This is done using interviews and a document study on the Church of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Older Adults
Vera-Toscano, Esperanza; Rodrigues, Margarida; Costa, Patricia – European Journal of Education, 2017
Empirical evidence suggests that educational attainment nurtures people's social outcomes and promotes active participation in society and stability. However, it is unclear to what extent other types of human capital also correlate with social outcomes. Hence, we explored the opportunity offered by the PIAAC survey through its provision of…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Lifelong Learning, Correlation, Outcomes of Education
Wals, Arjen E. J.; Benavot, Aaron – European Journal of Education, 2017
Education and lifelong learning are increasingly being mobilised to address the global environmental crisis and accompanying sustainability challenges. This article discusses the many roles of education about and for sustainable development, drawing on evidence and arguments put forward in the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Role of Education, Lifelong Learning, Sustainable Development
Owens, Taya Louise – European Journal of Education, 2017
Agenda 2030 for sustainable development focuses attention on lifelong learning opportunities for all. The new targets expand on their predecessors, the Millennial Development Goals, by both widening and deepening the scope of system-wide quality education systems. Whilst the Millennial Development Goals focused attention on universal primary…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Objectives, Lifelong Learning
Lorenz, Edward; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke; Kraemer-Mbula, Erika; Rasmussen, Palle – European Journal of Education, 2016
This article uses a multi-level framework to investigate for 17 European nations the links between forms of work organisation and style of employee learning at the workplace on the one hand, and the characteristics of national educational and training systems on the other. The analysis shows that forms of work organisation characterised by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Work Environment, Cognitive Style
Pavlin, Samo – European Journal of Education, 2016
This article analyses enterprises' engagement in university-business cooperation (UBC) activities: research and development, mobility of academics and students, curriculum development and lifelong learning. It first provides an introductory overview of university-business cooperation policy. It then presents a selection of UBC models, elements and…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Universities, Business, Educational Cooperation
Rossano, Sue; Meerman, Arno; Kesting, Tobias; Baaken, Thomas – European Journal of Education, 2016
Most prior research on academic entrepreneurship focuses on the interplay between university research and technology transfer activities in the form of joint research, spinoffs, licencing and patenting. Yet questions still remain with respect to the role of academic entrepreneurship in education and learning. Lifelong learning has been developing…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, School Business Relationship, Lifelong Learning, Colleges