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Tom Schuller Director, IFLL UCU conference, Birkbeck , April 2009

Get an update on the Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, with a focus on articulating a rationale for investment, reappraising social and cultural value, and developing new perspectives on policy and practice.

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Tom Schuller Director, IFLL UCU conference, Birkbeck , April 2009

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  1. A strategic framework for lifelong learning:update on the Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning Tom Schuller Director, IFLL UCU conference, Birkbeck , April 2009

  2. IFLL Goals • The overall goal is to offer an authoritative and coherent strategic framework for lifelong learning in the UK. This will involve: • Articulating a broad rationale for public and private investment in lifelong learning • Reappraising the social and cultural value attached to it • Developing new perspectives on policy and practice.

  3. The contradictory (?) functions of LL Mobility and change Equity and fairness Cohesion and tolerance

  4. Outline of Inquiry Papers

  5. Source: Counting the Cost, Niace 2008

  6. Source: Counting the Cost, Niace 2008

  7. Key emerging lines • Rebalancing: a new model • Entitlements • A citizens curriculum

  8. ‘Lifelong’ learning: the need for a new model- Demographics- Economic- Social

  9. UK demographics are changing … = Working age

  10. Source: Counting the Cost, Niace 2008

  11. The Educational Lifecourse: a new and simple model ‘Four Quarters’: 0-25; 25-50; 50-75; 75+ • The paradox of chronological age • ‘Staging posts’: the need for markers in a fluid world • Neuroscience, sociological, epidemiological • No hard boundaries, but reduced arbitrariness l

  12. Stocktake: ParticipationNIACE Adult Participation in Learning Survey, 2008

  13. Balanced by: • Solidarity and cohesion across and within generations • - Diachronic approach: the cumulation of (dis)advantage

  14. Offenders and education • Failure of initial education: low formal skills/human capital • Learning from peer groups: wrong kind of social capital • Family disconnection: 150,000 children with parents in prison • Creativity

  15. ‘Citizens curriculum’: four capabilities 1. Financial 2. Health 3. Digital 4. Civic

  16. Help please • Top propositions • Entitlement scope • - Pedagogies and capabilities • Title!

  17. Contacts/links www.lifelonglearninginquiry.org.uk Tom.schuller@niace.org.uk

  18. A Strategic Framework for LL: provisional outline • Vision and Values • Stocktake/Overview: Expenditure and Participation • The Social Productivity of LL • Roles and Responsibilities • System Performance: measurement and evaluation

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