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This chapter presents an overview of the changing landscape of adult education and lifelong learning. It discusses the role of UNESCO, the OECD, the European Union and the World Bank in shifting the international focus from broadly based adult education for a range of purposes to lifelong learning for more narrowly economic ends. It briefly sketches the various socio-political and economic shifts which have influenced conceptions of the purpose of adult education and the impact of international lifelong learning policy development on adult education practice globally.
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Bowl, M. (2017). From Adult Education to Lifelong Learning: A Changing Global Landscape. In: Adult Education in Neoliberal Times. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50883-2_2
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