EU Lifelong Learning and Skills Policy Discourse Analysis Corpus

A 2026 qualitative analysis by Maria Sytziouki examines resilience and sustainability discourses in European Union lifelong learning policy. The study applies a Bacchi-informed policy discourse analysis to a corpus of 10 core EU policy documents supported by 13 contextual instruments. The findings reveal a layered governance architecture where lifelong learning functions as transition infrastructure.

Use Cases

• Conducting discourse analysis on policy documents based on the described coding framework.
• Studying the integration of resilience and sustainability logics in EU governance based on the layered architecture finding.
• Analyzing the political role of lifelong learning in crisis governance based on the described multifunctional governance role.
• Examining the subsidiarity-solidarity tension in multilevel governance based on the constitutional work performed by discourse.

Strengths

• The analysis is based on a purposively constructed corpus of 10 core EU policy documents.
• The study is framed through established theoretical lenses: discursive institutionalism, multilevel governance theory, and experimentalist governance.
• The dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 27.4 KB DOCX file, indicating a very limited textual scope, likely a research article or summary.
• Column-level documentation is absent; the specific coded data or raw documents are not provided.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative reuse.

Provenance

Source

Maria Sytziouki via figshare.

Collection Method

Qualitative document analysis and Bacchi-informed policy discourse analysis applied to a corpus of EU policy documents.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 05:40:09

Geography

European Union