The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning

The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning, 1st Edition, provides a disciplined and comprehensive international overview of lifelong learning. The volume addresses the phenomenon across global settings while evaluating how individual development interacts with wider societal realities.

Organized around a theoretical structure that places the learner at the center, the handbook expands outward to engage the broader social context. The work features syntheses from international experts covering learning throughout life, sites and modes of learning, public policies, and social movements.

Intended as essential reading for academics in the field, this reference volume examines the complexities of lifelong education through a systematic global framework situated directly in its socio-historic context.