Attualizzare il learnfare: un nuovo legame tra lifelong learning e welfare

LLL is increasingly considered to be one of the basic rights of citizenship, a lever for inclusion, for economic and social participation. As the European paradigm of active welfare state and its heir – i.e., the Social investment welfare state – af-firm, this assumption is even more true in the context of the current socio-economic transformations and their related impact on the individual’s life cours-es. To meet the related challenges, LLL is placed at the very centre of the “activa-tion policies”, according to the learnfare rationale. However, this strategy reveals to have lights and shadows, which the article investigates on a theoretical level. In the conclusion the article proposes a renewed vision of the learnfare paradigm, reframing it through the capability approach.