终身教育、终身学习与学习型社会的全球发展回溯与未来思考

Global Development Retrospect and Future Prospect of Lifelong Education,Lifelong Learning and Learning Society

终身教育、终身学习和学习型社会的理念先后诞生于20世纪60年代中后期的西方社会,三者的发展紧密地交织在一起,互为激发、相互影响,共同构成了20世纪70年代以来世界教育改革与发展具有共识性的基本指导思想与原则。本研究结合历史和比较的研究方法,在全球发展脉络中系统地展现与分析了这三大理念的基本内涵及其主要政策与实践举措的发展和成因,研究结论指出:终身教育、终身学习和学习型社会三者在理念上一直存在着内在一致性,即都以促进人的全面发展为根本目的,它们在实践运作上虽各有侧重,但又离不开相互之间的支持与协同。研究为更深入地把握三者之间的关系提供了一个整体性的认知框架,并以此框架为基础,就三者的未来行动策略提供了若干可资参考的思路。

Lifelong education, lifelong learning and learning society are mainstream education thoughts which were emerged successively in western countries in late 1960s. They interact with each other and have always been a close link in their development progress. Since 1970s they all have become the guiding ideology and basic principles of worldwide education reform and development. By combining the historical and comparative research methods, this paper reviews systematically the evolution of their connotations, policies and measures in global context. The conclusion indicates that there exists an internal consistence among them which means that promoting human ＇ s comprehensive development is their common goal. Although they have different implementation strategies, they really need mutual backup and synergetic development. The purpose is to provide an overall understanding framework for better grasping their mean- ings and relations, and based on this framework the paper offers some suggestions for their future progress.