The learning society and people with learning difficulties / [electronic resource]
Riddell, Sheila,1953-author.
Baron, Stephen,author.
Wilson, Alastair,author.
This book makes a significant contribution to debates about how people with learning difficulties may achieve social inclusion, and the part which lifelong learning may play in this. Its exploration of the links between community care, education, training, employment, housing and benefits policies in the context of lifelong learning is unique.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-222).
THE LEARNING SOCIETYAND PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES; Contents; 1. Competing perspectives on lifelong learning ... ; 2. Policy discourses and lifelong learning; 3. Social justice and post-school education and training for people with learning difficulties; 4. Lifelong learning for people with learning difficulties; 5. Access to the open labour market by people with learning difficulties; 6. Participation in supported employment; 7. Community care, employment and benefits; 8. Social capital, lifelong learning and people with learning difficulties; 9. Regulated lives.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jan 2022).
This book makes a significant contribution to debates about how people with learning difficulties may achieve social inclusion, and the part which lifelong learning may play in this. Its exploration of the links between community care, education, training, employment, housing and benefits policies in the context of lifelong learning is unique.
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