Strand 1
Strand 1: Models of Lifelong Learning and the Knowledge Society
Leader: Germ Janmaat; with Roger Dale, Andy Green, Susan Hallam, Bryony Hoskins, Tom Leney, Walter McMahon, Moses Oketch, John Preston, Hugh Starkey and CNRS partners
Strand 1 will focus on the macro-level issues at the national and supra-national levels. At the national level, it will investigate the effects of lifelong learning systems and policies, in the context of other national system structures, using cross-national statistical and logical comparative analysis. At the supranational level it will investigate qualitatively developments in the regulation and organisation of post-school education and training, particularly with respect to the dynamics in the European Higher Education Area, and how these shape and constrain the options with regards to national policy.
The research will identify the characteristics of lifelong learning policies and systems, welfare regimes and labour market organisation in different OECD countries and analyse comparatively how these interact to generate differential patterns of skills and income distribution, different sets of adult values, and variant forms of social cohesion and economic competitiveness. A major theoretical outcome will be to identify different models of the ‘knowledge society’ and their concomitant ‘regimes’ of social cohesion and competitiveness and underpinning education, welfare and labour market systems.
Project 1: Lifelong Learning Systems and their Effects on Levels and Distributions of Skills (Project Leader: Andy Green)
Project 2: Analysis of Macro-Social Data on Educational Inequality, Income Inequality, Social Cohesion and Competitiveness
(Project Leader: Andy Green)
Project 3: Experiencing Inequality (Project Leader: Bryony Hoskins)
Project 4: School Ethnic Mix and Social Attitudes (Project Leader: Germ Janmaat)
Project 5: Europe, Higher Education and Regionalism (Project Leader: Roger Dale)
