Mandal, S.;
(2019)
The rise of lifelong learning and fall of adult education in India.
London Review of Education
, 17
(3)
pp. 318-330.
10.18546/LRE.17.3.08.
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Abstract
This article focuses on the dynamic relationships between the growing importance of lifelong learning (LLL) and consequent devaluation of adult education in national level educational policies, plans and programmes in India. It argues that by adapting the new paradigm of LLL, which is largely driven by marketcentric neoliberal principles, Indian adult education has lost its core and traditional learning ecology as there is a gradual submission to the pursuit of global economic competitiveness. It identifies three main reasons for the submission: (1) the metamorphosis from welfare to market principles in reforming education; (2) blind acceptance and misunderstanding of LLL as an educational and not a political discourse; (3) fragmented reforms in revamping adult education in India in the last decades.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The rise of lifelong learning and fall of adult education in India |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.18546/LRE.17.3.08 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.17.3.08 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | ©Copyright 2019 Mandal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | ADULT EDUCATION; DECLINE OF WELFARE; FALL OF ADULT EDUCATION; INDIA; INDIAN ADULT EDUCATION; LIFELONG LEARNING; LITERACY IN INDIA; MARKETCENTRIC EDUCATIONAL REFORMS; NEOLIBERAL EDUCATIONAL REFORMS; POLICIES |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10088179 |
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