TY  - BOOK
AU  - Longworth,Norman
AU  - Davies,W.Keith
TI  - Lifelong learning: new vision, new implications, new roles for people, organizations, nations and communities in the 21st century 
SN  - 0749419725
AV  - LC5215 .L66 1996
U1  - 374 21
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London
PB  - Kogan Page
KW  - Continuing education
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Learning
KW  - Zelfontwikkeling
KW  - gtt
KW  - Permanente educatie
KW  - fast
N1  - "Chosen for delegates to the theme conference of the European Year of Lifelong Learning."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-174) and index; European Foreword / John Towers -- North American Foreword / Henry A. Spille -- Introduction: Into the Learning Century -- Ch. 1. Returning to Learning: The Dawn of Understanding -- Ch. 2. Determining Learning: What in the World is Happening? -- Ch. 3. Learning Learning? Schools -- Where Lifelong Learning Begins -- Ch. 4. Learning for Earning: Learning for Survival -- Ch. 5. Turning to Learning: The Growth of Learning Organizations -- Ch. 6. Yearning for Learning: New Visions for Old, New Teachers for Old -- Ch. 7. Discerning Learning: Higher Education and the Incoming Tide -- Ch. 8. Burning for Learning: Lifelong Learning and the Quality of Life -- Ch. 9. Valediction: Learning Challenges for a Learning Age -- Appendix 1: Lifelong Learning: Developing Human Potential (Action Agenda for Lifelong Learning for the 21st Century) -- Appendix 2: The World Initiative on Lifelong Learning -- Appendix 3: Odyssey of the Mind
N2  - Lifelong learning concepts, ideas and practices are proliferating rapidly around the world. They take us beyond the age of education and training into an era of learning, in which the development of the skills, values and knowledge of individual thoughout a lifetime becomes the focus for nations, organizations and communities. Worldwide major companies look at principles of lifelong learning to help them meet the challenges of the changing marketplace. OECD, UNESCO and the G7 nations are prioritizing it in major policy announcements. It affects the future of both developed and developing nations. This topical and readable book explains the background to the movement towards lifelong learning and describes its significant implications for the workplace as a learning organization, for the university, the school and teacher training organization, for the community, the nation and, above all, the individual
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