International adult education as education policy: lifelong learning and Europeanization

This article considers two topics. First, it looks at the notion of lifelong education/learning. Four events are highlighted: the beginning of interest in lifelong learning in 1972 with the Faure Commission; the adoption of the 'Recommendations on the development of adult education' in 1976 by the General Conference of UNESCO which brought the principle of lifelong learning into the language and repertoire of UNESCO's activities; the 'Delores report' of 1996 which set out the four pillars of learning for adult education (learning to learn, learning to do, learning to live together, and learnin ... Show more

Authors: Knoll, Joachim H.

Published: Bonn, Germany, IIZ/DVV, 2004

Resource type: Article

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