Research Reports

Lifelong Learning Foundations

What can secondary schools do to develop lifelong learning skills?

Research organised around this question has the potential to help transform the rhetoric surrounding lifelong learning into programs and strategies that schools can implement. The main research focus in 1999-2000 was to identify key educational concepts that are argued to provide the foundations for lifelong learning. This work resulted in an 'issues' paper:

A second report extends the research in a practical way by providing a set of case studies undertaken in a number of secondary schools in South Australia and Victoria. The report identifies ways that the foundations for lifelong learning can be built in secondary schools.