UNESCO

Lifelong Learning The Relationship Between Formal Education and Continuing Education

Prepared by:

MARK P. ARMENTAMAEd-Ed.Mgt.Student

Lifelong Learning Defined

• “denotes an overall scheme aimed both at restructuring the existing education system and at developing the entire educational potential outside the education system in such a scheme men and women are the agents of their own education, through continual interaction between their thoughts and actions;

(From the Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education, UNESCO, 1976).

education and learning, far from being limited to a period of attendance at school, should extend throughout life, include all skills and branches of knowledge, use all possible means, and give opportunity to all people for full development of the personality; the educational and learning processes in which children, young people and adults of all ages are involved in the course of their lives, in whatever form, should be considered as a whole.”

Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

by United Nations, 2001

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

Education for All Goals

ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to and complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality

2

4achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults

Dakar World Education Forum , UNESCO 2000

Continuing Education Defined

as the provision of opportunity for lifelong learning after primary schooling

The Three Subsets of Continuing Education

DepEd, CHED,

Schools, Universities,

Colleges

DepEd, CHED,

Schools, Universities,

CollegesTESDA & BALSTESDA & BALS

IndividualIndividual

EquivalencyPathways

Doctorate

Masters Degree

Post Graduate Diploma

Bachelors Degree

Associate

Higher EducationTechnical/Vocational

Secondary Education

Elementary Education

Early Childhood Education

Diploma 2

Diploma 1

Certificate 3

Certificate 2

Certificate 1

Philippine National Qualifications Framework

Ladderized Education Program (LEP)

POTENTIAL CLIENTELES OF NFE

EDUCATION COHORT

ESTIMATES2323 4343 5858 6666

66100

Pursue higher education

Finish high school

For every 100 grade 6 pupils

5843

Enroll in first year high

school

from the Philippine Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) System pp.3-4

THE ISSUE OF COMPLEMENTARITY

Lifelong Learning DefinedNo. Criterion Formal Education Non-formal Education and Self

Learning

1. Objective To acquire lifelong skills and to obtain a certificate

To acquire skills for immediate use.

2. Time-frame It takes a long time to obtain the certificates and it involves full-time concentration.

Short and intermittent.

3. Curriculum Academic in approach Unacademic but it suits the needs of the target groups/functional.

4.Methodology Institutional with authoritarian teacher/student relationship

Flexible. Adult oriented. Stress on independent learning.

5. Control Top down relationship Flexible depending on situation, but largely self-initiated.

National Certificate

Skills

Informal Education

Formal Education

Non-Formal Education

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Degree

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