Alan Smith in “Integrating Lifelong Learning Perspectives” says:
In all part of the world, in their different ways, the impact of globalizaiton, the advent of the knowledge society and the pervasive advance of the new information and communication technologies are radically changing not only the way people work, but also their individual aspirations and the way they interact with one another in the narrower and broader social community. In this changes and ever more rapidly changing world, in which accepted wisdom become redundant even more quickly, high quality edu and training for all are at the premium. Access to learning, the capacity to acquire knowledge and competencies, and the key not only to economic success, but also to individual fulfillment, and social cohesion (Smith 48).
In EU, more emphasis has drafted an action plan on life long learning. 15 members states have reached agreement on a concrete set of common objectives for their education systems, all of which in one way of another relate to the overarching principle of life-long learning (and youth are under the attention of this process) (49).
Smith gives the EU definition of Lifelong Learning (LL). “LL as being an all purpose learning activity, undertaken on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills and competence…It’s not to do only with formal education, but also with informal and non-formal education” (50)
EU’s Lifelong Learning definition incorporates - employment, improving economy, fulfill personal aspirations, active citizenship and social inclusion,
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