Adults and old people learning
opportunities: case of Lithuania
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Klaipėda University Continuing Studies Institute
Department of Andragogy, Researcher (Lithuania)
Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences
Department of Education, Associate professor (Lithuania)
Publication date: 2016-03-31
JoMS 2016;28(1):431-456
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ABSTRACT
The article discusses the adult and old people learning opportunities for
Lithuania. Adult education is one of the most important factors that determine both
the development of the society and the human achievements in modern society.
Education is a social practice which includes education and cultural communication
in the broadest sense, as well as actions of human reproduction at large. Access to
adult education should ensure the justice in the society, although scientists argue
that education system is usually powerless to correct other social systems created by
inequality and in justice Accessible and quality adult education system ensures better
life, social mobility, and provides status. Accessibility of education (particularly
adult’s) is unconsciously problem, unequally understandable phenomenon, rarely
becoming the object of special investigation. This can be logical: usage of this concept
gained a wider scope only in last years, when essential European political educational
documents appeared, first of all, Memorandum of life-long learning. In long-life
learning ensuring strategy, the analysis of present state is provided. A potential of
informal adults education suppliers when integrating groups of social exclusion,
consolidating local communities by raising political and civil literacy of society,
what is directly related to common welfare of society, are not fully used. Seeking
to increase the integration of socially vulnerable society groups, juridical base is
constantly improved in recent years. The law of disabled people social integration
and the law of social companies are enacted, interinstitutional programs, reflecting
the needs of different social separation groups, making assumptions to develop the
initiatives directed to education of social separation groups are implemented.