Direction of Lifelong Education for Adults with Disabilities in Local Learning Policy

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the current status of lifelong education for adults with disabilities in local learning policies. Currently 2014, The government has supported The government has supported of the revitalization of education for local lifelong education; to operation of the institute for lifelong education in cities and provinces, to promote lifelong learning city project, to manage happiness learning center and the development lifelong learning information network “damoa”. It has 1,371 programs and 70,985 learners, but lifelong learning programs for adults with disabilities are very small. The following suggest the activation of the lifelong education for adults with disabilities in local lifelong learning based on the above findings: 1) ‘EFL’ cooperative educational system building, 2) empowering of Received (October 07, 2015), Review Result(October 22, 2015) Accepted(November 05, 2015), Published(December 31, 2015) 32244 College of Teaching Profession Chungwoon University, 25 Daehak-gil, Hongsung-Eup Chungnam, Korea email: jskwon@chungwoon.ac.kr (Corresponding Author)32244 Dep. of Social Welfare Chungwoon University, 25 Daehak-gil, Hongsung-Eup Chungnam, Korea email: yjjung@chungwoon.ac.kr * 이 논문은 2014 청운대학교 학술연구비의 지원을 받아 수행되었습니다. Direction of Lifelong Education for adults with disabilities in Local Learning Policy Copyright c 2015 HSST 306 education expert for adults with disabilities, 3) development and provide of various lifelong education program for disabilities 4) sustained various status and needs data of lifelong education for disabilities and 5) improvement of evaluation criteria to support of local learning policy.