Young Adults and Active Citizenship

This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as means to engage re-engage facilitate their life chances social inclusion thus contributing an citizenship within societal contexts. collection chapters dealing with issues people represents the first explicitly approach from European perspective. Social exclusion, disengagement disaffection have among most significant concerns faced by EU member states over last decade. It recognised stakeholders that there is growing number suffering various effects unstable social, economic political affecting Europe its neighbouring countries. Young who experience different degrees vulnerability are especially at risk being excluded marginalised. Engaging through strongly related addressing specific needs requirements would participation civic/political country Fostering people, both directly indirectly, area where many AE programmes overlap, this become core integration. considers dimensions citizenship, encompassing development competences capital, civic skills economy labour market. The cross-national consideration notions vulnerability, underpins complexity translating these concepts into national contexts programmes.