The book Lifelong Learning Today: New Areas, Contexts, Practices is the result of cooperation between individuals from two well-known centres of pedagogical thought and the adult learning theory: University of Ljubljana and Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The authors of the texts constituting the volume have a contemporary and essentially correct understanding of the concept and idea of lifelong learning as ... Read morea continuing process which begins in early childhood and goes on until the grand old age, formally divided into time periods requiring defined pedagogical strategies. The authors pointed out the areas and contexts of education not used so far in their respective countries and unanimously formulated suggestions on improving the worrying situation. Considering the process of lifelong learning in a vertical dimension, they demonstrated the achievements and shortcomings of education and educating people at its various stages, including adult education. They pointed out, how the effects and shortcomings of education in a given period of life affect the educational efforts in the subsequent periods and how to use positive organisational and methodical experiences from earlier stages of education in its later stages. The book contains numerous timeless supranational generalisations, which often lead to unambiguous suggestions regarding the optimisation of the practices associated with education and educating people at various stages in their lives.It is due to those attributes that the book will be of interest not only to theorists but also practitioners committed to furthering lifelong education.
Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Aleksander, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University Show Less