终身学习:教育的后现代形态

Lifelong Learning:a Postmodernism Condition of Education

近年来,越来越多的国家将终身学习理论作为制定本国政策的重要依据以及未来教育发展的目标。审视了终身学习出现的与后现代形态联系密切的一些特征,诸如多样化、"去中心化"、实践性学习;指出终身学习意味着现代教育的"控制"功能的丧失。这些特征和内在联系使终身学习成为教育的后现代形态。

In recent years, more and more countries around the world regard lifelong learning as the significant evidence for policy-making along with the object of the future education development.The article examines some characteristics emerging in the lifelong learning that associate with postmodernism. They compromise of diversification, 'de-centralization',performativity. Also the article signifies that lifelong learning mostly result in the loss of mastery. The paper argues that given the interrelation of those qualities mentioned above, lifelong learning can be constructed as a postmodernism condition of education.