Reconceptualizing Lifelong Learning

Abstract

For the UNESCO Lifelong Learning Institute, coordinating and writing the General Report on Adult Learning Education (GRALE report) was not an easy feat. Like many documents of its kind, GRALE is a policy advocacy document, drawing from reports produced by governments, secondary data, and supplementary empirical reports and information. Yet to have the academic and political credibility, it should have been influenced by state of the art debates in the field of adult and lifelong learning, a field that is rather under-theorized.