Author:
Duke, Chris;
Hinzen, Heribert;
Yorozu, Rika
Abstract:
Several countries in Asia and the Pacific region have identified lifelong learning as a key priority in their constitutions, laws and national policies, especially with regard to promoting sustainable development. Community learning centres (CLCs) serve as local institutions for lifelong learning, performing important functions to improve access to education. The central purpose of this exploratory research is to raise socio-political awareness of the significance of CLCs. It is hoped that government support for the centres will be increased when there is sound evidence of the benefits... [+] Show more
Several countries in Asia and the Pacific region have identified lifelong learning as a key priority in their constitutions, laws and national policies, especially with regard to promoting sustainable development. Community learning centres (CLCs) serve as local institutions for lifelong learning, performing important functions to improve access to education. The central purpose of this exploratory research is to raise socio-political awareness of the significance of CLCs. It is hoped that government support for the centres will be increased when there is sound evidence of the benefits adult populations gain when they participate in the learning and education activities that are being organized; thus, the research is looking more explicitly at the wider benefits that can enable the inclusion of individuals' less tangible gains as well as the advantages to communities. In the six countries where the studies included in this report have been drawn - Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam - CLCs have been formally recognized as part of the national education policy because they provide a wider understanding of where, why and how adults learn compared to earlier forms of formal and non-formal education.
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Subjects: Lifelong learning; Providers of education and training; Outcomes; Policy; Research
Keywords: Institutional role; Outcomes of education and training; Policy implications; Case study
Geographic subjects: Asia; Bangladesh; Indonesia; Mongolia; Korea (South); Thailand; Vietnam
Published: [Hamburg, Germany]: National Institute for Lifelong Education and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2017
Physical description: 37 p.
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