From ‘Adult Education’ to ‘Lifelong Learning’

Abstract

There are numerous ideological positions that have been used and abused in adult educators’ collective attempts to more fully understand the fundamental principles linked to older adult learning/education. The use of terms such as ‘adult education’, ‘recurrent education’, ‘adult and community education’, ‘lifelong learning’, ‘community development’, ‘continuing education’, ‘lifelong education’, ‘the learning organisation’, ‘the learning society’, and indeed, ‘older adult education’ (see chapter 8), have been used loosely in a variety of historical and ideological contexts.KeywordsLifelong LearningAdult EducationFormal ContextLearning SocietyLifelong EducationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.