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Becoming European

Serbian Adult Education Policy Discourse through the Decades

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Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Southeastern Europe

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In his seminal 1984 examination of the postmodern condition and the nature of knowledge in what was seen as a (Western) society entering a post-industrial era, Lyotard noted that knowledge had become valorized, a currency that enabled the individual to become an economic subject and enter into a social contract – an observation that constructs an individual at the turn of the century as encapsulating the interlinking spheres of educational, economic, and political.

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Djerasimović, S., Maksimović, M. (2017). Becoming European. In: Koulaouzides, G.A., Popović, K. (eds) Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Southeastern Europe. International Issues In adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-173-5_10

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