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The Lifelong Learning in China:
Mission and Challenge
Dayong Yuan
Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences
Coordinator of International Cooperation
Different understanding of lifelong learning
• Lifelong learning is a concept which emphasizes personal
responsibility of learning and promotes individuals’
initiatives to conduct learning (Green, 2002)
• It is a combination of personal learning and recurrent
schooling, including formal (school education), non-formal
(workplace courses) and informal (everyday experiences)
learning (Aspin and Chapman, 2000).
• lifelong learning is about learning but also about
education; it in a sense “falls between the individual
learning process and the formal bureaucratic educational
process”. (Jarvis ,2007)
Lifelong Learning in the Global Age
• The change of the work nature and lifelong
learning: mass higher education, skill-oriented,
practical-oriented
• From lifelong education to lifelong learning:
learning outside the school
• The consumer culture and lifelong learning as a
commodity: market rules and customers’ needs
The Policy Background of Lifelong Learning
in China
• The national Education and Development Outline (MOE
1993), by which the concept of lifelong learning was first
emerged in policy documents.
• In 2002, in the report of the Sixteenth National Congress
of the Communist Party of China (CCPCC, 2002),
promoting the lifelong learning became an important
agenda
• In 2010, China issue the Outline of China’s National Plan
for Medium and Long-term Education Reform and
Development (2010-2020)(MOE,2010)
National Comparative Advantage of Lifelong
Learning
• After 35 years of golden time for economy in China since
1978, the globalization process is turning into localization,
the GDP growth is from more the 10% to 6-7% in the
2016, some of the international company(MNC)s are
moving out of China.
• The labor force price is getting higher along with the aging
society, and also the pollution is getting serious, one of
the important reason is the civil society. The economy is
growing so fast that the society left behind.
Lifelong Learning Practices Responding to
Globalization
• Higher Education: Expansion, Commercialization and
Strong Pragmatic Orientation.
• Vocational Education: Skills Promotion, Rapid Expansion
and NQF, “spirit of the craftsman” , the spirit of the
craftsman includes determination, patience and the desire
to achieve perfection.
• Devoted Efforts to Promote Liberal Studies in
Communities: In Chinese context, community is the basic
unit of lifelong learning, as the course provider, resources
platform, education planner and organizer.
• Rapid Development of Senior Citizens College.
• A Learning City is a city which effectively
mobilises its resources in every sector
(UNESCO)
promote inclusive learning from basic to higher
education;
re-vitalise learning in families and communities;
facilitate learning for and in the workplace;
extend the use of modern learning technologies;
enhance quality and excellence in learning; and
nurture a culture of learning throughout life.
Feature project 1:Building the learning cities in China
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Governance and Participation of All Stakeholders
‘Lifelong Learning for All is Our City’s Future.’
Sustainable Development
Wider benefits of building a learning
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Vision, Political Will and CommitmentFundamental conditions for
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The Framework of the Key features
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Feature project 2:Building the New Open University
• As the main part of the adult university, From the radio
and TV, DVD to the internet, now the smart phone,China
open learning is changing so fast.
• In 2012 there is 1+5 Open Universities upgraded and
changed the name from Radio and TV University.
• The Open Universities provide lifelong learning courses,
mainly focus on the different profession and industry, the
students in Open University use their spare time to finish
the degree, and fixable and blended learning are the
learning method.
Feature project 3:Internet+ (Internet Plus) Education
• 《2016 China Internet Learning White Paper》, the
internet-based lifelong learner is 118 million until
September 2016, the mobile phone user is 59.3%, the
MOOC users is more than 10 millions(MOE, 2016).
• Since 2013, a new Internet+ (Internet Plus) policy was
published. The goal is to integrate mobile Internet, cloud
computing, big data and the Internet of Things with
modern manufacturing to encourage the healthy
development of e-commerce, so the Internet +education
was also include, more good internet learning companies
will join the online learning industry
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