Flexibility in Higher Education: An Irish Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Flannery, Marie; McGarr, Oliver
Titel	Flexibility in Higher Education: An Irish Perspective
Quelle	In: Irish Educational Studies, 33 (2014) 4, S.419-434 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0332 3315
DOI	10.1080/03323315.2014.978658
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Public Policy; Flexible Scheduling; Lifelong Learning; Human Capital; Educational Policy; Educational Environment; Context Effect; Educational Practices; Educational Objectives; Labor Needs; Job Skills; Barriers; Active Learning; Foreign Countries; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Öffentliche Ordnung; Flexible working hours; Flexible Arbeitszeit; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Humankapital; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Bildungspraxis; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Labour needs; Arbeitskräftebedarf; Produktive Fertigkeit; Aktives Lernen; Ausland; Irland
Abstract	Irish public policy strongly promotes greater flexibility in higher education. This review paper examines Irish policy conceptualisations of flexible learning. The review finds that the promotion of flexible learning is positioned within strongly economistic discourses of lifelong learning, and primarily in human capital terms of meeting the skills needs of the workforce. Irish policy largely presents flexible learning approaches unproblematically as positive and beneficial. This paper demonstrates that flexible learning is not an unproblematic concept and reveals some problems and tensions relating to Irish flexible learning policy. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10