Adult Education and Lifelong Learning Concepts

Andragogy refers to methods and principles used in adult education.

Transformative learning, as a theory, says that the process of "perspective transformation" has three dimensions: psychological (changes in understanding of the self), convictional (revision of belief systems), and behavioral (changes in lifestyle).

Lifelong learning is the "ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated" pursuit of learning for either personal or professional reasons.

Lifewide learning (LWL) is a teaching strategy and an approach to learning and personal development that involves real contexts and authentic settings.

Learning society is an educational philosophy advocated by the OECD and UNESCO that positions education as the key to a nation’s economic development, and holds that education should extend beyond formal learning (based in traditional educational institutions, schools, universities etc.) into informal learning centres to support a knowledge economy (known as a “world education culture”).

Dialogue Education is a popular education approach to adult education first described by educator and entrepreneur Jane Vella in the 1980s.

Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning, self-study, and self-teaching) is the practice of education without the guidance of teachers.