Is lifelong learning adult education?
[editorial]. Int J Lifelong Educ 2006; 25(6):545-546. Excerpt: At first glance the answer to this question seems obvious – no! After all, ‘lifelong’ implies more than ‘adult’ and ‘learning’ is a broader concept than ‘education’. But if we look at much of the literature and many government policy statements around the world we find that they are almost treated as synonymous and that discussions about school education and higher education do not occur. Moreover, go to a conference about lifelong learning and you will not find many school educators or members of the university staff (except those who are professionally involved in either adult education or lifelong learning). Even more, as educational gerontology develops, many academics in this field do not appear to attend lifelong learning meetings either. Consequently, it begins to look as if the school educators and university staff do not see themselves as part of the lifelong learning field, so that the practice seems to deny the l
