lifelong learning
Sign in to saveAlso known as life-long learning, lifelong education, education permanente, life span education, permanent education, recurrent education
ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- learning
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- Commons category
- Lifelong learning
- topic's main category
- Category:Lifelong learning
- P13411
- September 3
- partially coincident with
- adult education
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Encyclopedic overview
Lifelong learning is the "ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated" pursuit of learning for either personal or professional reasons.
Lifelong learning is important for an individual's competitiveness and employability. Furthermore, it enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lifelong learning” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.