ABSTRACT
Lifelong learning is an important contemporary theme within many countries and international organizations, in particular within the European Union and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It is promoted through national and international policies as a solution to the particular challenges of the contemporary age that must be overcome. It is used as a means to promote change and in this it promotes further change, within socio-political systems of governance, institutions for education and training and in our very understanding as citizens within society. Lifelong learning is therefore a significant phenomenon of our times and one that warrants close scrutiny. This book thus takes up questions of lifelong learning and the significance of such change. Drawing upon the work of Foucault it is possible to address such issues, in particular examining lifelong learning as part of the practices of governing in the twenty-first century, exploring the techniques through which such governing takes place and the subjectivities brought forth.
