Sharon Nowlan |
1. Most «Lifelong Learning policies and strategies» collected by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) refer to youth and adults.
2. Most national qualifications frameworks developed at international level associate LLL with adults.
3. The article What We Learned From Reading 1,000 Articles On Lifelong Learning, written by Steve Rayson, student at the London School of Economics, was circulated in social networks in May 2018. I checked the list of 1.000 articles, coming from many countries in the world, and found that most of them referred to adults.
1. Lack of information, definitions and public debate on LLL at all levels: local, national, regional, and global. LLL is used and understood in most diverse ways throughout the world.
3. UIL's mandate is adult education and non-formal education. It was created in 1952 as UNESCO Institute of Education (UIE) and was renamed as UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning (UIL) in 2006.
4. UNESCO has traditionally focused LLL on adults. The Global education monitoring report 2016. Education for people and planet: Creating sustainable futures for all, the first one linked to the 2030 Agenda, referred to LLL as adult education (p. 431).
5. Sustainable Development Objective 4 (SDG4), focused on education, is confusing: "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education, and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all". "Lifelong learning opportunities for all" appears as an addition to "inclusive and equitable education" rather than as an embracing concept. SDG4 refers to LLL as youth and adult education.
6. Translation problems: LLL is regularly translated into Spanish as continuing education or permanent education, terms associated with adult education.
https://es.unesco.org/gem-report/allreports
- UIL/UNESCO, Políticas y estrategias de aprendizaje a lo largo de toda la vida
https://uil.unesco.org/es/aprendizaje-largo-de-vida
- CEDEFOP/ETF/UNESCO/UIL, Inventario Mundial de Marcos Regionales y Nacionales de Cualificaciones 2017, Volumen I.
https://uil.unesco.org/es/aprendizaje-lo-largo-vida/marcos-cualificaciones/inventario-mundial-marcos-regionales-y-nacionales
- Torres, Rosa María, The Lifelong Learning approach: Implications for education policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, UNESCO, París, 2020
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000373632_spa