The Learning Society and People with Learning Difficulties By Sheila Riddell, S

The Learning Society and people with learning difficultiesAuthor(s): Sheila Riddell, Stephen Baron, Alastair Wilson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Policy Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781861342232, 978-1861342232\nSynopsis\nThere is a growing concern about the social exclusion of a range of minority groups, including people with learning difficulties. Lifelong learning is seen as one of the central means of challenging the exclusion of this group, but also of enhancing their economic status. This book demonstrates that policy based on human capital premises has produced forms of lifelong learning which exacerbate the marginalisation of people with learning difficulties.\nThe Learning Society and people with learning difficulties:\n\nreviews the range of policy fields which increasingly intervene in the lifelong learning arena;\nmaps the agencies involved in service delivery and describes their (sometimes conflicting) ethos;\nprovides in-depth accounts of the.