Challenges for lifelong learning

To develop a new learning culture, it is essential to help people meet challenges they now face in the twenty-first century. This review article attempts to present a clear concept of lifelong learning, while describing major challenges toward establishing it in a society. Lifelong learning is viewed as involving all strategies that are put in place to created opportunities for people to learn throughout life. It is about learning of what, how, when and where one wants to learn. Various challenges are to be found to many spheres of life including: financial, demographic, technological, social, environmental and democratic challenges. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd.