The complexities of modern life demand adaptability populations that are resilient, open to change and willing to engage in learning throughout life. increased mobility, population displacement, the climate crisis, technological change, threats to global health and democratic systems, and new patterns of production and consumption affect, in different ways, all countries in the world. Lifelong learning (LLL) represents an effective and potentially transformational means of addressing many of these challenges.
Increasingly, the global community is waking up to the fact that
investing in learning throughout life – for everyone – fosters active citizenship, improves employability, promotes people’s health and well being, and makes communities more cohesive. in other words, it makes a major contribution to sustainable development across countries, regions and localities.
The value of LLL has become even more apparent as the global community tackles the profound, shared challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, which, as well as precipitating an acute public health crisis, has disrupted education significantly. Governments, institutions, teachers and learners have had to adapt rapidly to restrictions to public life to ensure continuity of learning. Where more traditional learning programmes in classrooms have not been possible, online alternatives have sprung up. Non-formal and informal learning have come to the fore with a proliferation of more flexible online courses, new communication channels between education stakeholders and the opening up of digital resources.
LLL has the capacity to respond to trends and public policy issues requiring urgent attention from policy-makers. for example, LLL can address problems arising from rapid demographic changes and mass movements of people (Singh, 2018), and can promote tolerance and democratic values in the face of deep social and economic changes. LLL also mitigates challenges posed by the digital revolution: as robotics, artificial intelligence and increased connectivity transform our world rapidly, demands for new skills for workers and different forms of citizenship emerge. these factors, among others, make LLL an economic, political, social and environmental imperative for any country.
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