Publications

Milana, M., Rasmussen, P., Bussi, M. (eds.)(2024). Research handbook on adult education policy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

1 Jul at 13:46

Bringing together an impressive array of esteemed and emerging academics, the Research Handbook on Adult Education Policy addresses how adult…

Milana, M., Klatt, G., & Vatrella, S. (Eds.) (2020). Europe’s Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy – Using an Instruments Approach. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

6 Oct 2021

This book explores European governance and policy coordination within lifelong learning markets. Using an instruments approach, the editors and contributors…

Klatt, G., Milana, M. (2020). Governing education policy: the European Union and Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, 12(1): 25-39.

6 Oct 2021

This paper considers the changing modes of governance of education policy in the European Union (EU) and Australia through a…

Milana, M., Tronca, L., & Klatt, G. (2020). European Governance in Adult Education: On the comparative advantage of joining working groups and networks. RELA -The European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 11(2): 235-261.

6 Oct 2021

This article examines the working of complex intergovernmental policies that have brought about new opportunities and structures in European adult…

Milana, M., Klatt, G., & Tronca, L. (2020). Towards a network governance of European lifelong learning: a structural analysis of Commission expert groups. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 39(1): 31-47.

6 Oct 2021

The influence of the European Commission (EC) expert groups on policy coordination within the European Union has received a growing…

Milana, M., & Rapanà, F. (2019). The appropriation of cultural, economic and normative frames of reference for adult education: An Italian perspective. In L. Tett and M. Hamilton (Eds.), Resisting neoliberalism in education: local, national and transnational perspectives (pp. 167-180). Cambridge: Polity Press.

6 Oct 2021

This contribution sheds light on the complex dynamic that produces cultural, economic and normative frames of reference for popular adult…

Milana, M. (2018). Global polity in adult education and UNESCO: landmarking, brokering, and framing policy. In J. Resnik (Ed.), The Power of Numbers and Networks: Understanding the Mechanisms of Diffusion of Educational Models (pp. 53-76). Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon / New York, NY: Routledge.

6 Oct 2021

Aknowledging the complexity of local–global interconnections, the author argues for the adoption of a global polity perspective in adult education,…

Vatrella, S., Milana, M. (2019). European Governance and Educational Policy. Youth Guarantee as a ‘Trail’ between Labour and Learning. Scuola Democratica, 4, pp. 189-205.

6 Oct 2021

This article focuses on the relationship between European governance mechanisms and national policies. Specifically, we present a study on Youth…

Milana, M. (2019). Debating (International) Comparative Adult Education Research: Reflections on Conceptual Clarity and Methodological Challenges, In A. Fejes and E. Nylander (Eds.), Mapping out the Research Field of Adult Education and Learning (pp. 203-221). Dortmund: Springer.

6 Oct 2021

This chapter reflects on the main arguments pursused by Field, Künzel and Schemmann in Chap. 10 of this book. In…

Milana, M., Rasmussen, P. (2018). Negotiation and Officialisation: how commissions and task forces contribute to adult education policy in Italy and Denmark. RELA -The European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 9(2): 211-227.

6 Oct 2021

In this article we examine and contrast how the work of commissions and task forces, assembled to negotiate consensus on…

Milana, M. (2017). Global and Comparative Adult Education Research: A Response to John Field, Klaus Künzel and Michael Schemmann. Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung – International Yearbook of Adult Education, 39: 13-27.

6 Oct 2021

In the 2016 ‘International Yearbook of Adult Education’, John Field, Klaus Künzel and Michael Schemmann shared their reflections on theory,…

Milana, M., Rasmussen, P., & Holford, J. (2016). The role of adult education and learning policy in fostering societal sustainability. International Review of Education, 62(5), 523–540.

6 Oct 2021

The idea of ‘‘sustainability’’ as a core value has slowly permeated policy and practice at governmental and institutional levels, in…

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