Affiliation:
1. Hellenic Open University, Greece
Abstract
The aim of this study is to present an alternative approach to lifelong learning that contradicts the prevailing political rhetoric and highlights the role of lifelong learning as a mechanism to subjugate and control subjects, with the aim of increasing the profitability of companies and employers. Particular attention is paid to the ideological content of the concept of lifelong learning, to the way in which lifelong learning functions as a form of biopower, and to its connection with the emergence of a new ‘dangerous' class of the precariat.
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