Comparative Studies on Lifelong Learning Policies

这是日本国立教育研究所（NIER）和联合国教科文组织教育研究所共同进行的研究。本研究的主要目的是对与一国经济发展和社会/文化结构有关的基本终身学习政策进行比较研究。为了实现上述目标，NIER和UIE经过反复讨论，决定了研究的目标国家和分析框架如下：(1)目标国家：亚洲-大洋洲（澳大利亚、日本、泰国）欧洲（捷克共和国、德国、西班牙、瑞典）北美-南美（加拿大、墨西哥）非洲（布基纳法索、南非）(2)分析框架：初等教育（学校教育）趋势和任务高等教育趋势和任务提供和参与成人教育的转型学习环境和终身学习系统的变化和趋势来自目标国家的每一位专家都写了他/她的国家报告，然后举行了一次国际研讨会。研讨会讨论了以下主题：(1)作者国别报告的介绍和问答环节；(2)根据上述分析框架的五个方面进行比较研究的讨论；(3)从全球角度讨论终身学习政策的任务；最后发布了综合上述研究成果的报告。

This is a joint research brought forth by the National Institute for Educational Research of Japan (NIER) and the Unesco Institute for Education.The major goal of the research is to conduct a comparative study of fundamental Lifelong Learning policies are related to a country's economic development and social/cultural structures.In an effort to achieve the above-mentioned goal, NIER and UIE,after repeated discussions, decided on the target countries and analysis framework for the research as follows ;(1) Target CountriesAsia-Oceania (Australia, Japan, Thailand)Europe (the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, Sweden)North America-South America (Canada, Mexico)Africa (Burkina Faso, South Africa)(2) Analysis FrameworkTrends and Tasks of Initial Education (school Education)Trends and Tasks of Post-secondary EducationTransition ofProvision and Participation in Adult EducationChanges and Trends of Learning EnvironmentsSystems in Lifelong LearningAccordint to the above framework, each of the specialsts from the target countries wrote his/her country report, and then an international seminar was held. The seminar dealt with the following topics :(1) Presentation of the country reports by the authors and question-and -answer sessions(2) Discussion for comparative research in line with the above five aspects of the analysis framework(3) Discussion on tasks of Lifelong Learning policies from a global perspectiveThe final report was issued compiling all the products of the above studies.