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For the most part, discussions of lifelong learning, so prevalent today, are based on an image of society in which education is being transformed from the traditional top-down model to one where the learner is at the center of an ongoing, lifelong process. This vision presupposes a society in which demand for education, and higher education in particular, increases dramatically, and where the educational establishment demonstrates concrete commitment to address the needs of a radically changing constituency. Necessary to this picture is the establishment of many more and different avenues for access, implementation of a host of delivery methods, and the adoption of a miscellany of flexible educational goals. All this will require a complete re-thinking of what and why educational institutions do what they do, both for the vocational preparation of learners and for their personal development, and how it gets done.
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Hanna, W., Haillet, P. (2001). Lifelong Learning and the Private Sector. In: Aspin, D., Chapman, J., Hatton, M., Sawano, Y. (eds) International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0916-4_34
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