Lifelong Learning and Related Concepts

Question 1

learning across the lifespan, or throughout the life cycle—i.e. from birth to death or ‘from the cradle to the grave’.

Answer 1

Lifelong Learning

Question 2

Lifelong Learning is “the continuation of ________ throughout the lifespan” (OECD, 1996, in Field, 2006, p. 17

Answer 2

conscious learning

Question 3

Knapper and Cropley (2000, p. 1), “that _________ can and should occur throughout each person’s lifetime.”

Answer 3

deliberate learning

Question 4

__________ recognizes that people find it necessary to engage in multiple learning activities simultaneously through different modalities of learning and in varying settings. (Ahmed, 2009, p. 7)

Answer 4

‘lifewide learning’

Question 5

a set of organizational, financial and didactic principles established with the aim of fostering lifelong learning.

Answer 5

lifelong education

Question 6

Lifelong learning is part of a “family of concepts” that includes __________ (Edwards, in Field and Leicester, 2000, p. 4).

Answer 6

adult education, recurrent education, and continuing education

Question 7

it is a concept that tends to be more closely associated with “adult learning, and… adults returning [to school] to learn” or “adults returning to organized learning rather than…the initial period of education or…incidental learning (Schuller and Watson, 2009, p. 2).

Answer 7

Adult Education

Question 8

a strategy proposed by the OECD in 1973 for enabling individuals to alternate work and study, which may full-time or part-time.

Answer 8

Recurrent education

Question 9

the further development of human abilities after entrance into employment or voluntary activities and includes in-service, upgrading, and updating education

Answer 9

Continuing Education

Question 10

a second opportunity to undertake formal studies (at whatever level) for those who missed out on or dropped out of school.

Answer 10

Second Chance Education

Question 11

“society which will …be so organized as to provide (maximum) learning opportunities for each of its members, and also so as to value a broad range of that learning” (Field and Leicester, 2000, p. xvii).

Answer 11

Learning Society

Question 12

“the hierarchically structured, chronologically graded educational system running from primary school through the university and including, in addition to general academic studies, a variety of specialized programs and institutions for full-time technical and professional training”

Answer 12

Formal Education

Question 13

any intentional and systematic educational enterprise in which content is adapted to the unique needs of the students in order to maximize learning and minimize other elements which often occupy formal school teachers (i.e. taking roll, enforcing discipline, writing reports, supervising study hall, etc.)

Answer 13

Nonformal Education

Question 14

Unplanned and unorganized learning from everyday experiences; incidental learning

Answer 14

Informal Education

Question 15

lifelong learning includes both __________learning activities and programs.

Answer 15

formal and nonformal

Question 16

Extension of education throughout the life-span has also become essential to reduce the ___________ that has emerged as a rather new problem in a swiftly changing society.

Answer 16

inter-generational gap

Question 17

Lifelong education is not confined to __________but it encompasses and unifies all stages of education - pre-primary, primary, secondary and so forth

Answer 17

adult education

Question 18

Lifelong education includes both formal and non-formal patterns of education, planned as well as___________

Answer 18

incidental learning

Question 19

The ______ plays the first, most subtle and crucial role in initiating the process of lifelong learning.

Answer 19

home

Question 20

Contrary to the elitist form of education, lifelong education is universal in character. It represents _________ of education.

Answer 20

democratization

Question 21

Lifelong education is characterized by its ___________ in content, learning tools and techniques, and time of learning.

Answer 21

flexibilities and diversity

Question 22

Lifelong education is a dynamic approach to education which allows __________ of materials and media of learning as and when new developments take place

Answer 22

adaptation

Question 23

Lifelong education allows __________patterns and forms of acquiring education

Answer 23

alternative

Question 24

Lifelong education carries out a __________ function: to take care of the shortcomings of the existing system of education

Answer 24

corrective

Question 25

The ultimate goal of lifelong education is to maintain and improve the ________

Answer 25

quality of life.

Question 26

There are three major prerequisites for lifelong education, namely, ___________,

Answer 26

opportunity, motivation, and educability

Question 27

the readiness to profit from learning opportunities

Answer 27

Educability