Lifelong Learning Connections: The Nodal Role of Diversified Post-Primary and Post-basic Approaches

The holistic and integrated nature of lifelong learning (LLL) offers the necessaryframework to cater for post-primary education of various kinds. LLL providesthe conditions and capacities for genuine empowerment and inclusion. Its fundamentalfeatures - namely integration, flexibility, continuing and purposefulapplication of learning - are important for post-primary education. This necessitatesworking through formal, non-formal and informal education, and callsfor broader curriculum integration as well as a comprehensive mechanism forrecognition of various types and forms of learning across development sectors.Some examples are presented of alternative approaches within an embryonic,emerging system of lifelong learning in a number of African countries