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- Title
Comparing the characteristics of lifelong learning cities in Korea and Japan: A historical sociological approach.
- Authors
Ilseon Choi; Byung Chan Yang
- Abstract
This paper compares the characteristics of lifelong learning cities in Korea and Japan by examining both the system and movement of lifelong learning cities. For the purposes of this paper, the national lifelong education system refers to the system and the promotion of the lifelong learning city project and residents' participation refers to the movement. The results of the analysis indicates that the lifelong learning cities of Korea are different from those of Japan in terms of the provision of facility infrastructure, the perspectives taken regarding residents' autonomy, organizational participation, arid the relationship between the lifelong learning city project and national lifelong learning policy. Overall, lifelong learning cities in Korea are situated in a different historical stage of development compared to those of Japan. The main implication of this is that the government of Korea can achieve two objectives through the lifelong learning city project: the modernization of the lifelong education system and the invigoration of lifelong learning activities.
- Subjects
KOREA; JAPAN; CONTINUING education; EDUCATIONAL programs; ADULT education
- Publication
KEDI Journal of Educational Policy, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 1, p183
- ISSN
1739-4341
- Publication type
Article