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Learning World Committee For Education and LifeLong Learning |
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You
are well aware of the term ‘education, training and lifelong learning’ and
you would prefer this to be not just a slogan or catch phrase, but a concept
which opens the way to a universal right and social obligation. Whatever
your profession (educationist, scientist, sociologist, economist …), whatever
your domain of work (public or private), we need your help, in order to share
ideas, initiatives, projects and collective activities that drive the
development of our project which we hope is breaking new ground.
Indeed, we do not live in one culture and the richness of an active idea
is its very transferability. In the
era of globalisation it therefore seems irrefutable that we should develop
partnerships in order to share knowledge and understanding, influenced by
multicultural and multigenerational exchanges which will enable us to make sense
of this idea [lifelong learning] based on the underlying goal to make it
understandable to everyone. What
drives our initiative is the ‘Hamburg Declaration for Adult Education’
created after the 5th international conference on adult education,
organised by UNESCO in Hamburg 14-18 July 1997 (Confintea V).
We are furthermore responding to the ‘Call to action and responsibility’
from the Confintea Mid Term Review launched at the end of the Bangkok Conference
during 6-11 September 2003. We take
equal support from the work of the OECD, the World Bank, the European Union and
the UNESCO report ‘Learning, the treasure within’ (Jacques Delors 1996).
Michael Omolewa, President of UNESCO General Assembly, very interested in
our World Committee’s course of action, has agreed to be honorary president of
our World Committee. In
order to clarify the concept [lifelong learning], it is necessary to develop
networks and work in partnership. It
is this human and social capital that goes beyond frontiers and cultures, in all
its diversity, which enables us to bring this concept alive and attempt to give
it a more accurate meaning and make it useable. We are compiling an all
inclusive international network of lifelong learning actors, in each country and
on every continent. This is the
first stage of our project for reflection and action research. Our
executive committee consists of people involved in education and training from
various countries and various public and private sectors, amongst whom many
already have substantial international experience in the field of education. In
the expectation that you will soon join us. Very
Cordially, Yves
ATTOU President
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