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Until recently political interest in the provision of formal learning opportunities for everyone has been limited to schooling. It is increasingly recognised and found to be unacceptable however that schooling fails so many students and excludes them from activities that are available to those who succeed (Aspin & Chapman 1997, ch.1). Programmes of lifelong learning seem to offer the possibility that such exclusion can be countered when multiple chances to learn are available. The possibility depends however on lifelong learning being seen not as a compensatory device to deal with failure at school but as the norm for everyone. The idea that globalisation produces such rapid changes in the world of work that learning must be ongoing to cope with it offers one way of normalising programmes of lifelong learning.
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Halliday, J. (2001). Lifelong Learning, Changing Economies and the World of Work. In: Aspin, D., Chapman, J., Hatton, M., Sawano, Y. (eds) International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0916-4_6
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