Lifelong learning and the right to education 2016, para. 33

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UNESCO has been the progenitor of the vision and the concept of "lifelong learning", and the Special Rapporteur recognizes the importance of drawing upon its work. In the 1970s, reflections by the international community under UNESCO auspices led to a shift in focus from education to learning. This was epitomized by the International Commission on the Development of Education, which in 1971 put forward a vision of "the learning society" and recommended as the guiding principle for educational policies that "every individual must be in a position to keep learning throughout his [or her] life". Recognizing that "the idea of lifelong education is the keystone of the learning society", the Commission took the view that lifelong education was not an educational system but the principle on which the overall organization of a system was founded, and which should accordingly underlie the development of each of its component parts.
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Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to education
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • N.A.
Year
2016
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Other
Reference
SR Education, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/358, para. 33.
Paragraph number
33