Recently published: Saar, Ellu, Ure, Odd Bjorn, & Holford, John (Eds.). (2013): Lifelong Learning in Europe: National Patterns and Challenges. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
The volume combines three reviews on the state of play in cross-country comparative research on Lifelong Learning with twelve chapters on the still under-researched role and institutional development of formal adult education in 12 European countries, written by national key experts in their fields.
3s has contributed two chapters. Günter Hefler and Jörg Markowitsch (chapter 3) propose – building on the concept of organisational fields – a new typology of formal adult education, allowing for studying this complex topic in a cross-country comparative manner. Putting this typology into practice, Jörg Markowitsch together with Günter Hefler, Paul Riegler and Stephanie Rammel investigate the institutional changes in formal adult education in Austria since the country’s accession to the European Union.
The volume marks the final corner stone of a series of publication based on the LLL2010 project, a large scale cross-country comparative research endeavour financed with in the 6th EU Research framework. It deserves to become – in the view of leading experts as Kjell Rubenson and David Bills – a major point of reference for cross-country comparative research on Lifelong Learning.