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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 458 361 CE 082 032 AUTHOR Youngs, Gillian, Ed.; Ohsako, Toshio, Ed.; Medel-Anonuevo, Carolyn, Ed. TITLE Creative and Inclusive Strategies for Lifelong Learning: Report of International Roundtable (Hamburg, Germany, November 27-29, 2000). INSTITUTION United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany) .Inst. for Education. ISBN ISBN-92-820-1110-0 PUB DATE 2001-00-00 NOTE 123p.; Report of the International Roundtable on Developing Creative and Inclusive Strategies and Partnerships for Fostering a Lifelong Learning Culture (Hamburg, Germany, November 27-29, 2000). AVAILABLE FROM For full text: http://www.unesco.org/education/uie/publications/uiestud29.s html. PUB TYPE Collected Works Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Access to Education; Adult Education; Adult Learning; Change Strategies; *Creativity; Definitions; Distance Education; Educational Change; Educational Environment; Educational Needs; Educational Objectives; *Educational Planning; Educational Technology; Educational Trends; Empowerment; Foreign Countries; Futures (of Society); Global Approach; Guidelines; Information Technology; Internet; Islam; *Lifelong Learning; Memory; *Partnerships in Education; Postsecondary Education; Program Development; Program Implementation; Role of Education; Social Change; *Socialization; Strategic Planning; Technological Advancement; Transformative Learning; Trend Analysis; Womens Education; Youth IDENTIFIERS Africa; Asia; Global Economy; Latin America; Learning Society ABSTRACT This document consists of 12 papers from an international roundtable on creative and inclusive strategies for lifelong learning that focused on the following topics: the need to redefine lifelong learning; ways lifelong learning can aid critical understanding of globalization and its problems; and ways lifelong learning can be a transformative aspect of building knowledge societies. The following papers are included: "Report of the International Roundtable on Developing Creative and Inclusive Strategies and Partnerships for Fostering a Lifelong Learning Culture" (Toshio Ohsako); "Summary of Discussion" (Gillian Youngs, Carolyn Medel-Anonuevo); "Lifelong Learning: Implementing a Generally Accepted Principle" (Elisabeth Bittner); "The Islamic Roots of Lifelong Learning Culture: How to Make Use of Them in Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment" (Nadia Gamal El-Din); "Towards the Creation of Lifelong Learning Culture in Africa" (T.O. Fasokun); "A Youth Contribution to Lifelong Learning" (Nina Hansen, Cornelius Brokelmann); "Technological Change in Asia: Women's Need of Life-long Learning" (Govind Kelkar, Dev Nathan); "Societal and Cultural Enabling Environment, Spaces, Knowledge, and Agency for Lifelong Learning" (Gudrum Lachenmann); "Human Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Memory" (Lars-Goran Nilsson); "Lifelong Learning in Uncertain--or Threatening?--Times" (Fulvia Rosemberg); "Addressing Challenges on Lifelong Learning for Girls" (Mariama Sarr-Ceesay); and "Questions of Agency and the Internet: A New Way of Learning" (Gillian Youngs). Many papers include substantial bibliographies.(MN) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. UNpSCO Institute for Education, Hamburg, Germany CREATIVE AND INCLUSIVE STRATEGIES FOR LIFELONG LEARNING: REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL ROUNDTABLE 27-29 NOVEMBER 2000 Editors: Gillian Youngs, University of Leicester (UK), Toshio Ohsako & Carolyn Medel-Monuevo, UNESCO Institute for Education U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND Office of Educational Research and Improvement DISSEMINATE THIS MATER/ALHAS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION BEEN GRANTED BY pot<CENTER (ERIC) s document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. 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The points of view, selection of facts, and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily coincide with official positions of the UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the UNESCO Secretariat concerning the legal status of any country or territory, or its authorities, or concerning the delimitations of the frontiers of any country or territory. @ UNESCO Institute for Education, 2001 ISBN 92 820 1110-0 UNESCO Institute for Education Feldbrunnenstr. 58 .20148 Hamburg Tel.: (+49 40) 44 80 41-0 Fax: (+49 40) 410 77 23 www.unesco.org/education/uie [email protected] Any quotations of up to 300 words taken from this publication must be accompanied by due acknowledgement of the source. Permission to reproduce longer excerpts must be sought from the UNESCO Institute for Education TABLE OF CONTENTS Report of the International Roundtable on Developing Creative and Inclusive Strategies and Partnerships for Fostering a Lifelong Learning Culture - Introduction Toshio Ohsako 1 Summary of discussion Gillian Youngs and Carolyn Medel-Monuevo 5 Participants' Reports 9 Lifelong learning: implementing a generally accepted principle Elisabeth Bittner 11 The Islamic roots of lifelong learning culture: how to make use of them in creating an inclusive learning environment Nadia Gamal El-Din 21 Towards the creation of lifelong learning culture in Africa T.O. Fasokun 29 A youth contribution to lifelong learning Nina Hansen and Cornelius Brökelmann 37 Technological change in Asia: women's need of life-long learning Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan 41 Societal and cultural enabling environment, spaces, knowledge and agency for lifelong learning Gudrun Lachenmann 55 Human memory Lars-Göran Nilsson 69 Lifelong learning in uncertain - or threatening? - times Fülvia Rosemberg 83 Addressing challenges on lifelong learning for girls Mariama Sarr-Ceesay 93 Questions of agency and the Internet: a new way of learning Gillian Youngs 111 List of Participants to the Seminar 121 Report of the International Roundtable on Developing Creative and Inclusive Strategies and Partnerships for Fostering a Lifelong Learning Culture Introduction Background and expected results s UNESCO's international reference centre for lifelong learning, UlE, over its Athirty years of experience in this field, has initiated several research activities in this area and collaborated with a number of institutions and researchers all over the world. Building on these experiences in elucidating a conceptual framework of lifelong learning, the Institute has been reviewing, at the onset of the new millennium, existing lifelong learning perspectives as well as elaboration on new persPectives. The Institute has come to the conclusion that it can contribute to the emergence of a holistic and integrated framework that takes into consideration the cultural, social, political and economic components, as well as the vertical and horizontal aspects of lifelong learning. The current complex, rapidly changing, globalizing and information- intensive learning environment produces a need to revisit and examine existing frameworks of lifelong learning, with a view to making them more relevant to the individuals, communities and societies in the 21st century. The Round Table was proposed within the framework of UlE's program-Me Cluster 1: 'Learning Throughout Life in Different Cultural Contexts: From Laying Foundations to Strengthening Participation'.Itis also a follow-up to the 'Global Dialogue7:Building Learning Societies: Knowledge, Information and Human Development', held at EXPO 2000 (6-8 September 2000, Hanover, Germany). It also constitutes an exploratory stage in the formulation of a UIE-led and co-ordinated follow-up activity area to the World Education Forum (WEF, Dakar, April 2000). The meeting was conceivedwithinaninterdisciplinary/multi-disciplinary perspective since the creation of a lifelong learning cultureis a co-operative enterprise among all actors having a stake in lifelong learningthe learner, parents, school, community, industry, government, and so on. The results from the Round Table are particularly important for the orientation of UIE/UNESCO's medium-term strategic programming of lifelong learning activities. The key areas include: 1 1. Description of priority issues, as well as those areas of lifelong learning that have been relatively unexplored. 2. Analysis of trends and indicators of transformation towards lifelong learning and the creation of learning communities. 3. Recommendations and suggestions to UNESCO/UIE and all other partners of lifelong learning regarding the roles, strategies and actions to be taken for promoting