Lifelong, life-wide or life sentence?

Author: Terry Clark, Charles Darwin University

Edition: Volume 45, Number 1, April 2005

Summary: This paper examines the life-wide dimensions of lifelong learning. Although the benefits of a life-wide approach to learning are well recognised, there appears to be little explicit attention given to the concept of life-wide learning in Australia. It is argued that recent pronouncements by the Australian Government about the challenges of an ageing population would be better informed by reference to lifelong learning that includes its life-wide dimensions, rather than continued concentration on formal learning.

Keywords: life-wide, lifelong, formal learning,

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