Lifelong learning, global social justice, and sustainability

Abstract

This chapter introduces the topic of Lifelong Learning/Education giving prominence to people and movements who advocated education and learning as a lifelong process. It is argued that although the concept of Lifelong Learning seems a harmless concept, this cannot be further from the truth. It has been twisted in such a way that it reduces learning to a set of narrow competences suited to a Neoliberal economy.