Conceptual evolution and policy developments in lifelong learning - Yang Jin; Valdés-Cotera, Raúl - UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2011

Abstract: This book is an outcome of the Shanghai International Forum on Lifelong Learning co-organised by UNESCO, the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, the Chinese Society of Educational Development Strategy and the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO. The Forum took place in Shanghai during the World Expo 2010, from 19 to 21 May.

The 24 papers collected here document the debates and discussions led by experts from across the world. The papers are grouped into five themes, recounting first how lifelong learning has evolved conceptually and then how policy has developed in its promotion. Subsequent sections examine its relationship with distance education, new learning media and higher education; its association with the learning cities movement; and its role in rural and industrial development. The General Rapporteur’s Summary Report of the Forum provides the final section, giving an overview of the event.

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and its Chinese partners hope that this publication will contribute meaningfully to international endeavours in making lifelong learning a reality for all.

Contents:

Preface v
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction viii
Jin Yang and Raúl Valdés-Cotera
I. Conceptual evolutions of lifelong learning 1
1. Discovering the treasure of learning 3
Roberto Carneiro
2. Evolution of and perspectives on lifelong learning 24
Adama Ouane
3. Lifelong learning: moving beyond Education for All (EFA) 40
Rosa María Torres
4. Revisiting the classics: the necessitated return of research on the 51
teaching/learning relationship in modern China
Ye Lan
II. Policy developments in promoting lifelong learning 59
5. The development of an institutional framework of lifelong learning in China 61
Hao Keming
6. The development of lifelong learning policy in the United States of America 70
Brenda Dann-Messier
7. Better city, better life! Lifelong learning with Canadian characteristics 77
Roger Boshier
8. Policy developments towards lifelong learning in the European Union 98
Heribert Hinzen
9. Policy framework designed to build a learning society in Thailand 110
Kasama Varavarn
10. Lifelong learning and connected-up development: insights from South Africa 114
Shirley Walters
11.Improving coordination between formal education and non-formal 120
education in the domain of lifelong learning in Benin
Abdel Rahamane Baba-Moussa
12. Promoting the quality of adult non-formal education and lifelong learning 131
in Tanzania: policy, practice, challenges and prospects
Salum R. Mnjagila
13.A review of Mexico’s lifelong learning model 145
Juan de Dios Castro
14. Sharing innovative practices in financing lifelong learning in the Philippines 154
Ma. Eloisa M. Ramirez
15. Using research to guide policy frameworks for building a learning society 169
in the United States of America
Judith Alamprese
III. Distance education, new learning media and higher education in 181
lifelong learning
16. Distance education: ends, means, opportunities and threats 183
John Daniel
17. The new paradigm of lifelong learning and the construction of a 192
new learning media market – informal and non-standard learning
platform for all
Kang Ning
18. Reflections on the value of higher education in lifelong learning 199
Han Yanming
IV. Learning cities and lifelong learning 207
19. Introduction to building a learning city 209
Han SoongHee
20. Constructing a learning society for ‘better city, better life’: 222
Shanghai’s experience
Li Junxiu
21. Development of lifelong learning and promotion of the construction of 228
a learning city in Changzhou
Ju Liqin
V. Rural and industrial development and lifelong learning 233
22. Lifelong education of farmers in the context of coordinated urban-rural 235
development in China
Hong Fuzeng
23. Lifelong learning and industry development – the practice of the 245
machinery industry
Tu Zhonghua
VI. Summary of the General Rapporteur of the Forum 253
24.Summary report of Shanghai International Forum on Lifelong Learning 255
Manzoor Ahmed

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