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What are the core elements of UNESCO’s definition of lifelong learning? What are the most significant issues for sustainable development in today’s world? Why is lifelong learning important? What are its benefits and why should national governments design and implement lifelong learning policies?
This chapter introduces key concepts, including lifelong education, lifelong learning and recurrent education, and outlines key issues that have shaped this field. First, the origins and main understandings of lifelong learning and cognate concepts from the 1970s are discussed.
Lifelong Learning: Concepts, Issues and Actions is evident in the following three definitions, one from UNESCO, one from the ILO and another from the European Commission:
6 wrz 2024 · Lifelong learning is a process that starts at birth and extends across the whole lifespan. It provides people of all ages and origins with learning opportunities and activities, responding to their specific needs in different life and professional stages.
2 wrz 2020 · This chapter introduces key concepts, including lifelong education, lifelong learning, recurrent education, and the learning society, and outline.
In this chapter some versions of lifelong learning are reviewed, some conceptions of education they imply are explored, and some of the ways those concepts may be partial, faulty, misleading or mistaken are delineated.
This chapter examines the scope of the field of lifelong learning, covering definitions, environmental pressures, principal theories of development and learning, and environmental resources and structures that support lifelong learning.
