Adult Learning Education and Literacy as International Comparative Education

Abstract

Lifelong learning was created to offer a unified and compelling vision of the future, and as a paradigm that would bring about change. There are three dimensions of adult learning education as a paradigm: a scientific dimension, a pragmatic dimension, and an international dimension. The scientific dimension points to one of the major goals of adult learning education, which has been to contribute to theory building, research, and practice with the formulation of generalized propositions about the workings and the options of formal, non-formal and informal systems of learning and work apprenticeship, and their interactions with surrounding economies, politics, and cultures.