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As the term suggests, lifelong learning does not finish when formal schooling ends, but continues throughout life. Lifelong learning is the ongoing process of acquiring knowledge or skills, for professional or personal reasons, via education, training, work and general life experiences.
Research
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- Lifelong learning (LLL)
- LLL and career development
- LLL and technology
- LLL and workforce development
- LLL and skill development
- Participation in LLL
Recent publications
- Adult learning and qualifications in Britain
- Adults who do not want to participate in learning: a cross-national European analysis of their perceived barriers
- Closing the gap: opportunities for distance education to benefit adult learners in higher education [Europe]
- Determinants of user demand for lifelong learning in institutions of higher education [UK
- Lifelong learning in policy and practice: the case of Sweden
- Lifelong learning in the EU: changing conceptualisations, actors, and policies [Europe]
- Lifelong learning: reforming education for an age of technological and demographic change [UK]
- Lifelong learning through the SkillsFuture movement in Singapore: challenges and prospects
- Synthesis report on the state of community learning centres in six Asian countries
- Systemic obstacles to lifelong learning: the influence of the educational system design on learning attitudes [international]
- Talkin' 'bout my generation: more educated, but less skilled Canadians
- Training participation and gender: analyzing individual barriers across different welfare state regimes [Europe, North America]
- The rise and fall of life-wide learning for adults in England
- Understanding adult lifelong learning participation as a layered problem [international]
- Upskilling and retraining [Australia]
Suggested reading
Key research from a broad date range
- 3rd global report on adult learning and education
- A competence perspective on lifelong workplace learning [international]
- Lifelong and lifewide learning: a policy statement [Australia]
- Lifelong learning: education across the lifespan [international]
- Lifelong learning: formal, nonformal, informal and self-directed [US]
- Lifelong learning in Australia
- Scenarios and strategies for vocational education and lifelong learning in Europe: summary of findings and conclusions of the joint Cedefop/ETF project (1998-2002)
Resources
General
- Cedefop: developing lifelong learning [Europe]
- European lifelong learning magazine
- Lifelong learning in Europe (previous title)
- International journal of continuing education and lifelong learning (ceased publication 2016)
- International journal of lifelong education
- Journal of adult and continuing education [international]
- Learning communities: international journal of learning in social contexts
- Lifelong learning book series [international]
- Quest (journal) [Australia]
- UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) [international]
Statistical
- Adult learning [Australia]
- Adult learning statistics (Eurostat) [Europe]
- Lifelong learning among Canadians aged 18 to 64 years: first results from the 2008 access and support to education and training survey
- Lifelong learning Wales record
- Literacy and lifelong learning [Asia]
- National Institute for Lifelong Education (NILE) [Korea]
