Lifelong Learning, Adult Education and Continuing Education: a critical comparison of the views of two scholars

This paper makes a critical comparison between the views of the two scholars of education, Gustavsson and Zarifi. A common component of the two is the evolution of the term adult education in recent decades, approached with different paths. Gustavsson identifies lifelong learning as a dialectic relationship between the old and the new that can exist even beyond formal education while in a similar context Zarifis contrasts continuing education to the education provided by our school settings. Beyond these two areas of concern, in this paper, we represent the meaning of adult education and continuing education within the wider concept of Lifelong Learning. With the gift of learning as a starting point and as a goal and the globalized labor market as an incentive, these terms interrelate creatively

Keywords:

Lifelong learning , adult education , continuing education