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UNESCO’s Utopia of Lifelong Learning

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With a focus on lifelong learning, this book examines the shifts that UNESCO’s educational concepts have undergone in reaction to historical pressures and dilemmas since the founding of the organization in 1945. The tensions between UNESCO’s humanistic worldview and the pressures placed on the organization have forced UNESCO to depart from its utopian vision of lifelong learning, while still claiming continuity. Elfert interprets the history of lifelong learning in UNESCO as part of a much bigger story of a struggle of ideologies between a humanistic-emancipatory and an economistic-technocratic worldview. With a close study of UNESCO’s two education flagship reports, the Faure and Delors reports, Elfert sheds light on the global impact of UNESCO’s professed humanistic goals and its shifting influence on lifelong learning around the world.

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ISBN: 9781138242524
Publication date: 7th September 2017
Author: Maren Elfert
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 254 pages
Series: Routledge Research in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education
Genres: Moral and social purpose of education
Adult education, continuous learning
Educational strategies and policy
Higher education, tertiary education