Lifelong Education
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The nature of education is changing radically throughout the world. It is increasingly becoming a lifelong process in which the most important learning happens in the post-school years, outside the traditional educational institutions. The human life cycles have shifted their boundaries, technology is progressing with ever-increasing speed, and the social demand for education is continually expanding: all this means that lifelong learning has taken on a new urgency. Lifelong Education elucidates these far-reaching changes by bringing together 17 distinguished contributions, drawn from many countries, that address a wide range of issues, including changing patterns of employment, the interrelationship between education and social structures, differing views on the role of the state, and the emergence of a `biographical' approach, in which education becomes a process of shaping one's own life story. The contributions analyze the various patterns of lifelong education within different national contexts, from Sweden to Sub-Saharan Africa, from Argentina to Poland. Audience: Practitioners, researchers and planners. The book provides a wealth of valuable insights into the nature and direction of the changes occurring in lifelong education, addressing a cross-section of the vast field, taking soundings, and raising key questions. Booknews A research and theoretical examination of life long learning in Europe, Latin America, and the US addressing the relationship between education and social structures, and the emergence of a "biographical" approach to education which involves the process of shaping an individual's life story. The 18 essays (8 presented in French) examine the politics of education, shifting patterns in employment, and the educational needs for a progressing global technology. The volume is a reprint of the 1994 International Review of Education, v.40, Issues 3-5. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
DedicationEditorial Introduction191The Politics of Adjustment and Lifelong Education: The Case of Argentina195Positive Discrimination in Education: Its Justification and a Chilean Example209Formation des enseignants dans une perpective d'education permanente au Benin223Quelques facteurs sociaux agissant sur la formation permanente et l'education informelle en Algerie235Recurrent Education Policy in Sweden: A Moving Target245Le conte africain: l'univers de l'oralite dans le systeme de l'enseignement257Lifelong Education in China: New Policies and Activities271The "Biographical Question" as a Challenge to Adult Education283Histoires de vie et formation de nouveaux savoirs vitaux299Educational Challenges to Poland at the Time of Transition313L'ecole de la vie319Alphabetisation conscientisante comme base d'une education permanente325Patterns of Lifelong Education in Japan333L'homme de la reponse et l'homme de la question339L'education permanente: principe revolutionnaire et pratiques conservatrices343Lifelong Learning: The Dialectics of "Lifelong Educations"353Lifelong Learners in the Literature: A Bibliographical Survey383Notes on Contributors398
