Lifelong learning in different value-based views
Chair: Mr Gunther Dohmen
Key question: What are the values, ideas, beliefs, life-patterns, views of the world, notions of human missions rights and duties behind different answers to the following questions/positions ?
Lifelong learning for the sake of whom ?
What can be valuation patterns for giving priorities to:
- the improvement of socialisation and better adaption to the community ?
- a broader knowledge-background for the progress of democracy ?
- the rising of underdevelopped countries, regions, communities, professional areas, systems, branches, institutions etc ?
- the improvement of economic positions in the global market ?
- the personal development of the individual learners ?
Who shall be the main participants ?
What principle positions can be behind decisions to mainly support the lifelong learning of
- leading persons who are already well educated and open to continous learning ?
- those who especially need it in a common interest because of their high responsibilities ?
- those who never attended organised continuing education courses ?
- everybody ? ("Lifelong learning for all")
What shall be the main aims of lifelong learning ?
What can be principle patterns for giving priorities to:
- more personal or more social purposes ?
- making people happier, more satisfied, more self-confident, more independant or
- making individuals fit for the struggle of life - in competition against others ?
- the development of hidden potentials of mankind in dangerous challenging global transformation processes ?
- giving equal learning chances to everybody and overcoming social exclusion?
How shall lifelong learning be implemented ?
What can be valuation patterns for priorities to:
- a lifelong organised learning ?
- the integration of informal learning ?
- the acknowledgement/assessment of prior experiential learning ?
- more guided or more self-directed learning, more freedom or more control ?
- more individualised learning or more learning in groups ?
- more face-to-face contacts or more virtual communication ?
- more tutor/teacher based or more computer based learning ?
- more public or more private support systems ?
- more development of international learning networks ?
- a fundamental change of the roles and functions of teachers to coaching, advice, facilitating ?
- a definite change of the role and functions of continuing education
institutions to become
- lifelong learning agencies ?
- edutainement institutions ?
- open learning service centers ?
- multi-media centers
