Renewing learnfare: a new link between lifelong learning and welfare

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Rosangela Lodigiani
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/156
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 73-95 File size 235 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2020-156004
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Lifelong learning (LLL) is increasingly considered to be one of the basic rights of citizenship, a lever for inclusion, for economic and social participation. As the Eu-ropean paradigm of active welfare state and its heir (i.e., the Social investment welfare state) affirm, this assumption is even more true in the context of the cur-rent socio-economic transformations and their related impacts on the individual’s life courses. To meet the related challenges, LLL is placed at the very centre of the activation policies, according to the learnfare rationale. However, this strategy reveals to have lights and shadows, which the article investigates on a theoretical level. In the conclusions the article proposes a renewed vision of the learnfare par-adigm, reframing it through the capability approach.

Keywords: Lifelong learning, activation policies, learnfare, capability approach

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Rosangela Lodigiani, Attualizzare il learnfare: un nuovo legame tra lifelong learning e welfare in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 156/2020, pp 73-95, DOI: 10.3280/SL2020-156004