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Title: | The normative foundations of lifelong education |
Authors: | Wain, Kenneth |
Keywords: | Continuing education -- Philosophy Continuing education -- Psychological aspects Continuing education -- Social aspects Continuing education -- Aims and objectives |
Issue Date: | 1982 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Faculty of Education |
Citation: | Wain, K. (1982). The normative foundations of lifelong education. Education, 1(1), 7-11. |
Abstract: | 'Lifelong Education' is a term which is bandied about nowadays with equanimity and fashionable ease wherever educationalists of whatever kind get together for brainstorming sessions about educational problems or to discuss policy or strategies. But more often than not, the ways in which it is used demonstrate radical limitations and even misconceptions in the minds of many of its users, who tend to misemploy it. Either it becomes for them a handy slogan, or else they use it in a manner which demonstrates its equivalence in their minds with certain limited areas of educational policy; usually adult educational or vocational retraining programmes. These equivalences are, however, both misleading and oversimplified; adult educational and vocational retraining programmes are only partial strategic elements within an all embracing policy blueprint for education. Underpinning this blueprint is a complex educational philosophy with a central humanistic core. At the same time, lifelong education concurrently presents itself as a pragmatic educational response to several ob- served problems and aspirations of a mankind living in a unique historical situation. The set of issues that represent the humanistic core of lifelong education all gyrate around a particular concept o 'universal' or 'generic' man, those representing the pragmatic justifications of lifelong education are concerned with 'concrete' man. It is with these issues and justifications that this paper is concerned. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/51591 |
Appears in Collections: | Education, vol. 1, no. 1 Education, vol. 1, no. 1 Scholarly Works - FacEduES |
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