Era of Lifelong Learning

Author(s): Jennifer Bryce, Tracey Frigo, Phillip McKenzie and Graeme Withers

Publisher: ACER, 2002

This era of lifelong learning is a time when knowledge is increasing and changing rapidly in every sphere of life so that today's young people need to be flexible and adaptable to meet the frequently changing challenges they will face in their lives after school.

This paper considers the implications the era has for schools, and how a lifelong learning orientation may tansform what schools currently do. Focusing on both the implications for individuals and the implications for schools, the paper addresses issues such as:

• the need for information literacy
• the need to develop a questioning, reasoning and evaluating approach to learning
• appropriate generic competencies
• the importance of identity and learning how to learn.

It is suggested that becoming a lifelong learning school is a process of gradual reorientation. Material provided may help school communities consider the extent to which this reorientation is occurring for them.

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