Lifelong Learning: A Postmodern Condition of Education?.

Edwards, Richard; Usher, Robin

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ERIC Number: EJ628952

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2001

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Lifelong Learning: A Postmodern Condition of Education?

Edwards, Richard; Usher, Robin

Adult Education Quarterly, v51 n4 p273-87 Aug 2001

Situates lifelong learning within the framework of postmodernism, particularly the notions of performativity, decentering, and lack of mastery. Describes lifelong learning in postmodernist terms as a condition of constant apprenticeship in which proficiency is never final or complete. (Contains 44 references.) (SK)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Mastery Learning, Outcomes of Education, Postmodernism, Role of Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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