ERIC Number: EJ734604
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Mar
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Escaping The Slums or Changing The Slums? Lifelong Learning and Social Transformation
Rogers, Alan
International Journal of Lifelong Education, v25 n2 p125-137 Mar-Apr 2006
This paper looks at the discourse of lifelong learning as it has emerged in many countries (especially Europe) over the last few years, with its concentration first on learning for work and latterly on learning for citizenship. The failure of lifelong learning to pick up on the earlier tradition of adult education is noted and some reasons for this are suggested. The paper argues that a social transformation approach to lifelong learning based on a diversity paradigm rather than a deficit or a disadvantaged paradigm is possible within its existing conceptualisation, especially within the fields of the reflective practitioner, learning and identity and the learning organisation/society.
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Social Change, Education Work Relationship, Citizenship Education, Cultural Pluralism
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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