The basic aim of this special issue is to focus on the profound change of tendency in education that is taking place at both the national and internaยญ tional level. At a time when education and lifelong learning are increasingly merging into one process, it is important to examine the ways in which eduยญ cational policies and practices are evolving. Consequently, we invited a variety of contributors, both men and women, coming from different regions and encompassing both research and practice, to identify significant phenomena and trends that are indicative of the ways in which systems of education are responding to new social and cultural demands. We asked our contributors to show how educational reality in different countries is no longer confined within the temporal and spatial limits of institutional education, to indicate how models of educational practice are changing, to examine the extent to which the traditional cycles of human life are shifting their boundaries, and to describe how these changes are maniยญ festing themselves in different national contexts in both South and North. We also asked our authors to pose questions raised by this educational revolution. We have included 17 contributions, some of the authors analysing parยญ ticular national situations, others drawing questions and observations from their own experiences or taking a searching look at education from the perspective of a practical involvement in social iSl>ues or from a background of research into popular arts and traditions
CONTENT
Editorial Introduction -- The Politics of Adjustment and Lifelong Education: The Case of Argentina -- Positive Discrimination in Education: Its Justification and a Chilean Example -- Formation des enseignants dans une perpective dโ{128}{153}รฉducation permanente au Bรฉnin -- Quelques facteurs sociaux agissant sur la formation permanente et lโ{128}{153}รฉducation informelle en Algรฉrie -- Recurrent Education Policy in Sweden: A Moving Target -- Le conte africain: lโ{128}{153}univers de lโ{128}{153}oralitรฉ dans le systรจme de lโ{128}{153}enseignement -- Lifelong Education in China: New Policies and Activities -- The โ{128}{156}Biographical Questionโ{128}{157} as a Challenge to Adult Education -- Histoires de vie et formation de nouveaux savoirs vitaux -- Educational Challenges to Poland at the Time of Transition -- Lโ{128}{153}รฉcole de la vie -- Alphabรฉtisation conscientisante comme base dโ{128}{153}une รฉducation permanente -- Patterns of Lifelong Education in Japan -- Lโ{128}{153}homme de la rรฉponse et lโ{128}{153}homme de la question -- Lโ{128}{153}รฉducation permanente: principe rรฉvolutionnaire et pratiques conservatrices -- Lifelong Learning: The Dialectics of โ{128}{156}Lifelong Educationsโ{128}{157} -- Lifelong Learners in the Literature: A Bibliographical Survey -- Notes on Contributors
