Facilitating Lifelong Learning in School-Age Learners

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Schober ◽  
Marko Lüftenegger ◽  
Petra Wagner ◽  
Monika Finsterwald ◽  
Christiane Spiel
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
International Studies ◽  
School Age ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Learning Skills

Lifelong Learning (LLL) has been proclaimed a Europe-wide strategy as societies are faced with numerous changes making continuous development indispensable. Currently, LLL is often seen primarily as a topic for continuing education. However, schools play an essential role in laying the cornerstone for successful LLL: There is robust knowledge that persistent motivation to learn as well as corresponding learning skills are essential for LLL and that both could be influenced best during childhood and adolescence. Therefore, facilitating LLL is an important aspect of schools’ success. However, results from international studies show deficits for many students in LLL competencies. Consequently, a need for more systematic promotion of LLL in schools was identified. Based on this, the aim of this paper is to give an overview on the theoretical basis for promoting LLL in schools from the perspective of educational psychology. Derived from this, the necessity of enhancing LLL competencies in school is made obvious and present promotion programs are described. As an example, goals, structure, and evaluation results of the TALK training program, which aims to provide teachers with the competencies to systematically implement the enhancement of LLL into their regular educational responsibilities, are reported. Finally, general recommendations for realizing a systematic facilitation of LLL in school are illustrated.

TALK - A Training Program to Encourage Lifelong Learning in School

2007 ◽  
Vol 215 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Schober ◽  
Monika Finsterwald ◽  
Petra Wagner ◽  
Marko Lüftenegger ◽  
Michael Aysner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Evaluation Design ◽  
Learning Skills

Abstract. Lifelong learning (LLL) is a topic of high political relevance. Within the context of continuous social development toward an “information society,” individuals find themselves facing a number of challenges that they will not be able to surmount successfully if they are not willing to commit to learning over the entire course of their lifetimes. The persistent motivation to learn, as well as the correspondent learning skills, appears to be essential if one is to survive in a modern society. Schools, as a collective institution, have the task of laying the cornerstones of these skills. The present article introduces the training program TALK, which aims to provide teachers with the competencies to systematically implement the enhancement of LLL into their regular educational responsibilities. From the perspective of educational psychology, motivation, self-regulation, social skills, and cognitive abilities are developed as core aspects for LLL in a scholastic context. Building on these, the goals and structure of the TALK program are described, and a summative and formative evaluation design is depicted.

scholarly journals Studying Level of Awareness of Teachers in Terms of their Lifelong Learning Skills

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 2030-2038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurhayat Çelebi ◽  
Hatice Özdemir ◽  
Özge Eliçin
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Learning Skills

Continuing Professional Development: Views and Barriers Toward Participation Among Malaysian Pharmacists

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Zoriah Aziz ◽  
Chong Nyuk Jet ◽  
Sameerah Shaikh Abdul Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Current Role

Continuing professional development (CPD) is a lifelong learning approach to maintain and enhance professional competencies. This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the pharmacists’ preferred CPD activities and barriers to CPD participation. A survey instrument was distributed to all government pharmacists (N=3876) in Malaysia. The response rate was 29.2 %. The majority of the pharmacists (92%) believed that engaging in CPD would improve their performances in their current role. Almost 90% of the respondents preferred to participate in CPD activities associated with continuing education such as workshops and conferences attendance. Barriers to CPD participation were current job constraints, lack of time, and accessibility in terms of travel and cost. It is important to address these issues before the implementation of mandatory CPD for pharmacists in Malaysia.

Planning for lifelong education

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Weimer
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Lifelong Education ◽  
Industrial Firms ◽  
Large Market ◽  
Business Of Education

Continuing education has become a large market with participation by industrial firms, educational institutions and firms in the business of education. Both education and industry should develop strategies for their involvement in continuing education. Both should commit to the concept of lifelong learning as essential for their success. Both should consider cooperative projects as one of the most cost-effective ways of providing continuing education. Both should improve communication with each other to improve our capability to identify appropriate joint projects and to improve our management of them.

scholarly journals Reflective practices for quality education in Malaysia: A mixed method approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 07006
Author(s):  
S. Chee Choy ◽  
Joanne Sau-Ching Yim ◽  
Daljeet Singh Sedhu ◽  
Azlinda Boheran Nudin
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Thinking Processes ◽  
Reflective Skills ◽  
Pragmatic Knowledge ◽  
Method Approach

Teachers in Malaysia are expected to possess the necessary reflective skills to help them analyse and think through classroom situations that require diplomacy and sound judgement. This study examined the contributions of lifelong learning skills, self-assessment ability, self-belief, teaching awareness and reflective thinking in explaining the differences in teaching practices among Malaysian pre service teachers (PSTs). A mixed-methods approach was used to provide pragmatic knowledge that can be applied to further develop reflective thinking practices among PSTs. The sample of this study were 387 PSTs enrolled in Bachelor level programmes from which 11 of them volunteered to participate in the interviews. The quantitative data showed lifelong learning skills, self-belief, and teaching awareness had a significant relationship with reflective thinking. From the qualitative data analysis, PSTs were generally focused on the immediate challenge of becoming better teachers and were open to further education in time. Similarly, the results of the qualitative thread showed the PSTs were able to manage their planning, monitoring of students and evaluation of themselves and their relation to students, suggesting metacognitive awareness, a good indicator of established reflective thinking processes. Future studies will need to consider how this will influence how reflective thinking is carried out when they are practicing teachers.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONTINUING EDUCATION CONCEPT IN THE EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL AREA: REGULATORY PROVISION

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Svitlana Sysoieva ◽  
Olena Protsenko
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Education System ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Education Concept

The article reveals the European context of the meaning of the «continuing education» concept, which is interpreted in the Memorandum on Lifelong Learning as a purposeful educational activity conducted on an ongoing basis to improve the knowledge, skills and abilities of citizens and is a basic principle of the education system. Continuing education has become a key element in the European Union definition of strategies to build the world’s most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based society. The analysis of international documents adopted by EU countries showed that the implementation of continuing education strategies in national systems is recognized as one of the priority areas and fundamental principles of educational system development in EU countries, which direct the national policy of their countries to implement the concept of lifelong learning and encourage higher education institutions increase access to education for different age groups. The system of continuing education is divided into three components. The first – additional professional education – contributes to the formation of the professional basis of human resources of the modern high-tech economy. The second component of the system of continuing education provides various groups with the opportunity to adapt to changing living conditions. The third component of the system of continuing education provides for the satisfaction of various individual educational needs of citizens. The implementation of the concept of continuing education is aimed at covering the educational programs of all people – from the youngest to the elderly. Attention is focused on finding ways to democratize access to education, increase the value of knowledge, increase investment in education and bring it closer to the consumer. The study and analysis of international documents on continuing education is necessary for the further development of the education system of Ukraine, which corresponds to the general trend of development of education systems in European and global space

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