Universities and Lifelong Learning

Question 1

lifelong learning poses a _______ to conventional systems of education.

Answer 1

challenge

Question 2

declarations of support for lifelong learning tend to single out higher education as an area of _______.

Answer 2

reform

Question 3

The ________is an important area of higher education reform

Answer 3

curriculum

Question 4

“A ________ is the most appropriate concept for a higher education experience that sets out to help students develop themselves for a lifetime of learning in an infinitely complex ever changing world.” (Jackson and Campbell, 2008)

Answer 4

life-wide curriculum

Question 5

life-wide curriculum refers to “an educational design that seeks to empower and enable a learner to integrate their learning from any aspect of their life into their ________ experience.

Answer 5

higher education

Question 6

The role of higher education in a lifelong learning system is best summed up in Article 1(b) of the 1998 World Declaration on Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century, which states that the core missions and values of higher education are to:

Answer 6

○ provide opportunities for higher learning and for learning throughout life,
○ giving to learners an optimal range of choice and flexibility of entry and exit points within the system,
○ as well as an opportunity for individual development and social mobility in order to educate for citizenship and for active participation in society,
○ with a worldwide vision,
○ for endogenous (growing from within) capacity building,
○ for the consolidation of human rights, sustainable development, democracy and peace, in a context of justice.