Lifelong Learning principles and higher education policies

Carlos Vargas Tamez

About Author

 

 Carlos Vargas Tamez (carlos.vargas@deusto.es) is a Mexican Sociologist and Educationist who specialises in adult education and lifelong learning. After having worked on adult education and lifelong learning in Mexico and Latin America for over a decade, Carlos moved to the Basque Country in 2010 where he continues his research of lifelong learning and adult education in Europe with a comparative lens. For the past four years, Carlos Vargas has been a lecturer in the European Master’s in Lifelong Learning at the University of Deusto (Bilbao), and a visiting scholar to the University of London Institute of Education (IOE), Aarhus University (Denmark), and Melbourne Graduate School of Education (Australia). He currently researches and teaches education and LLL policy analysis using the human rights based approach. Carlos is part of the INNOVA research team at the University of Deusto, and is Associate Research Fellow of the ESCR Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) based at the University of Oxford’s Department of Education. He has recently been a Peter Jarvis / Taylor & Francis CONFINTEA Scholar at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, and part of the Expert Working Group on Adult Learning and Education at the same Institute.