Lifelong learning
Term
Lifelong learning
Definition
All learning activity undertaken throughout life, which results in improving knowledge, know-how, skills, competences and/or qualifications for personal, social and/or professional reasons.
Comment
Life-wide learning has been defined as learning, either formal, non-formal or informal, that takes place across the full range of life activities (personal, social or professional) and at any stage.
Source
Based on Cedefop (2004). Cedefop; Tissot, P. (2004). Terminology of vocational training policy – A multilingual glossary for an enlarged Europe. Luxembourg: Publications Office, 2004. Available from Internet: http://libserver.cedefop.eu.int/vetelib/eu/
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ELGPN Glossary, informal learning, lifelong, non-formal learning, skills, competences
Lifelong guidance
Term
Lifelong guidance
Definition
A range of activities that enables citizens of any age and at any point in their lives to identify their capacities, competences and interests, to make educational, training and occupational decisions and to manage their individual life paths in learning, work and other settings in which these capacities and competences are learned and/or used.
Comment
This is an approach to guidance which does not see it as a one-off or single point in time activity. It argues for guidance to be delivered proactively and not just at transition points and refers to guidance activity undertaken throughout life (i.e. at any lifestage) and that takes a lifelong perspective (i.e. from early in school and throughout both working and non-working life).
Life-wide guidance is a dimension of lifelong guidance just as life-wide learning is a dimension of lifelong learning. Life-wide guidance can be formal, non-formal or informal and can take place across the full range of life activities (personal, social or professional), across all sectors (education, initial training, employment and continuing training) and at any stage.
Source
Council of the European Union, (2008). Council Resolution on better integrating lifelong guidance into lifelong learning strategies. Available from Internet: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/educ/104236.pdf
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ELGPN Glossary, guidance, lifelong
Co-ordination mechanisms
Term
Co-ordination mechanisms
Definition
Processes, systems or organisational structures used to facilitate people or organisations co-ordinating their work or interventions together.
Comment
Co-ordination of lifelong guidance activities is likely to require a co-ordinating structure, with operational powers and funding (and possibly a contract or legal mandate). The establishment of national fora is one way that has been used to encourage co-ordination of lifelong guidance activities.
It could also involve the sharing of responsibility for different activities in a programme of careers work.
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ELGPN Glossary, co-ordination, process, system, lifelong, guidance