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Adult Education: A Vehicle for Economic Development

In: Economic Crisis, Development and Competitiveness in Southeastern Europe

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  • Pantelis Sklias

    (University of Peloponnese)

  • Giota Chatzimichailidou

    (University of Peloponnese)

Abstract

In the present study, the issue under scrutiny is the contribution of adult education to economic development. More precisely this paper seeks to develop a more rigorous understanding of how adult education programs in several aspects of today’s political, social and economic realms can empower individual actors, citizens, to involve in the societal evolution towards social cohesion, which consequently implies a transition to economic development. Transformative learning theory is such a tool to explain this empowerment to take action. What emerges from this paper is an alternative perspective on the benefits of adult education, differentiated from the dominant neoclassical approach framework of the Human Capital Theory, and relocated it in the methodological framework of International Political Economy. The latter serves as a tool of perceiving and understanding the existent complex context of political, economic and socio-cultural realities within European Union, coupled with the historical evolution of adult education. The upgrading of adult education standard is seen as central to the delivery of social cohesion and therefore to economic development.

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  • Pantelis Sklias & Giota Chatzimichailidou, 2016. "Adult Education: A Vehicle for Economic Development," Contributions to Economics, in: Anastasios Karasavvoglou & Dimitrios Kyrkilis & Georgios Makris & Persefoni Polychronidou (ed.), Economic Crisis, Development and Competitiveness in Southeastern Europe, pages 139-157, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:conchp:978-3-319-40322-9_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40322-9_9
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