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Human Capital, Social Capital and Lifelong Learning: An editorial introduction

BAICE was delighted when colleagues at the University of Nottingham proposed that the 2002 BAICE conference address lifelong long learning from human and social capital perspectives. These are topically important constructs in social and educational analysis, and taken together they allow enquiry into all fields of learning at all stages of life, in ways that encourage focused examination of the social and economic dynamics of purposes, processes and effects. The six papers included in this issue of Compare were all presented to the 2002 Nottingham conference. John Morgan (its convenor) and his colleagues, Janet Hannah and Steven Drodge, selected the papers for Compare and undertook initial reviewing. In a welcome innovation, the Nottingham team has also produced a CD of the conference proceedings, which includes the text of all papers received by the end of 2002 [1]. About 150 people attended the conference, with 90 making presentations. Most positioned their work, more and less explicitly, in relation to selected aspects of the overall theme. Few attempted an overarching conceptualisation and perhaps, given the complexity of each of the issues and the links between them, this is inevitable. To present this conference issue of Compare, we introduce in the following paragraphs current thinking about human and social capital, and ways in which it is shaping lifelong learning debates.