Understand The Scope Of The LL Sector
Assignment 1
Unit 11. Understand the Scope and nature of the Lifelong Learning Sector
Lifelong learning can be described as the "continuous, voluntary, and self-motivated" pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons.
Scientific and technological advances across the past fifty years have had a serious and major effect on learning needs and styles, and the term recognises that learning can no longer be divided into a place and time to acquire knowledge; school and university, and a place and time to apply the knowledge acquired (the workplace). Instead, learning can be seen as something that takes place on an on-going basis from our daily interactions with others and with the world around us, it therefore, not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development, but also self-sustainability. In recent years 'lifelong learning' has been used as an umbrella term for post-compulsory education that falls outside the Higher Education system, into Further Education, Community Education, Work-based Learning and similar voluntary, public sector and commercial settings.
Educating adults differs from educating children in many ways. One of the most important differences is that adults already possess an accumulation of knowledge and experiences, which can add to their learning experience. Another difference is that most adult education is voluntary; therefore, the learners are generally self-motivated. Adults frequently apply their existing knowledge in a practical fashion to learn effectively. They usually have a reasonable expectation that the knowledge they gain will help them further their ambitions. During the 1990s, for example many adults, including myself, enrolled voluntarily in computer training courses in order to learn the basics of using the operating system, because interactions with the computer were completely new to those who had been out of formal education for more than ten years. Most upwardly mobile
Unit 11. Understand the Scope and nature of the Lifelong Learning Sector
Lifelong learning can be described as the "continuous, voluntary, and self-motivated" pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons.
Scientific and technological advances across the past fifty years have had a serious and major effect on learning needs and styles, and the term recognises that learning can no longer be divided into a place and time to acquire knowledge; school and university, and a place and time to apply the knowledge acquired (the workplace). Instead, learning can be seen as something that takes place on an on-going basis from our daily interactions with others and with the world around us, it therefore, not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development, but also self-sustainability. In recent years 'lifelong learning' has been used as an umbrella term for post-compulsory education that falls outside the Higher Education system, into Further Education, Community Education, Work-based Learning and similar voluntary, public sector and commercial settings.
Educating adults differs from educating children in many ways. One of the most important differences is that adults already possess an accumulation of knowledge and experiences, which can add to their learning experience. Another difference is that most adult education is voluntary; therefore, the learners are generally self-motivated. Adults frequently apply their existing knowledge in a practical fashion to learn effectively. They usually have a reasonable expectation that the knowledge they gain will help them further their ambitions. During the 1990s, for example many adults, including myself, enrolled voluntarily in computer training courses in order to learn the basics of using the operating system, because interactions with the computer were completely new to those who had been out of formal education for more than ten years. Most upwardly mobile