Lifelong Learning as a Political Issue and the context of crisis

Abstract

The chapter underlines the need of a debate about a political dimension of adult education. It introduces political concepts of lifelong education and lifelong learning.

It comments the reasons of growing interest in the field of education during the globalisation era and a connection between educational politics and other public policies. It focuses also on a topic of possibilities of education politics analysis.

Keywords

• lifelong education
• lifelong learning
• educational politics
• public politics
• governance