1. Concept origin
The term lifelong education was formally put forward by Paul Lungrande, director of the Adult Education Bureau of UNESCO, during the international conference on promoting adult education held under the auspices of UNESCO in 1965. In just a few years, it has spread widely around the world.
The discussion on the concept of lifelong education in the past 30 years can be described as varied, and even there is no unified authoritative conclusion so far. This fact not only reflects the attention and importance of this brand-new educational concept in the world from a certain aspect.
At the same time, it also proves that there is still a gap between theory and practice in the comprehensive explanation and rigorous demonstration necessary for the formation of scientific concepts.
2. Development and promotion
Since the mid-1960s, with the vigorous advocacy, promotion and popularization of UNESCO and other relevant international institutions, lifelong education, as an extremely important educational concept, has been widely spread around the world.
Many countries take the concept of lifelong education as the basis, the basic principles put forward by lifelong education as the starting point and the realization of these principles as the main goal when formulating their own educational policies or constructing the framework of national education system. In today's society, if we want to say what kind of educational theory or what kind of educational trend of thought is the most shocking to the world, it is undoubtedly lifelong education.
3. Implementation mode
According to the stage of education, it is divided into five stages: infant, teenager, young adult, middle age and old age. According to the educational mode, it can be divided into three educational modes: family education, school education and social education (adult education), and the embodiment of the three educational modes in individual lifelong learning practice.
According to the education system, it is divided into five stages: preschool education, primary education (primary school), secondary education (middle school), higher education and continuing education; Among them, secondary education is divided into two stages: junior high school and senior high school; There are three modes of higher education: general higher education, adult higher education (adult education) and higher education self-study examination (self-study examination).
Individuals instinctively participate in all kinds of education and learning activities that make them survive and develop in life, and use various opportunities to update, deepen and further enrich the initially acquired knowledge. Adapt yourself to the ever-changing world. A person from birth to the end of life. In each of the five stages, the situation of receiving education and participating in learning is different.