Stav celoživotního vzdělávání v České republice

• Main Author: Paška, Miroslav
• Other Authors: Kuchař, Pavel
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-271522

The lifelong education or recently more used term lifelong learning conception, is a very actual topic at several sessions, used colloquially, and in many documents written by representatives of several organizations like the European Union, OECD, UNESCO etc. Modern society is associated with a growing volume of information and with the knowledge on how to work with it. On the basis of this fact the idea of a knowledge society was established. In the modern knowledge society the education process is a very important part of social and individual life. Thus, this work deals with the issue of lifelong education (learning) which consists of formal education, non-formal education and informal education. Although formal education is a very important part of lifelong education, from a lifelong education point of view non-formal education is the most important, especially if we focus our attention on the connection between lifelong education and the labour market. The work is based on the concept of human capital, human resources and strives to also include the cultural capital theory. Regarding the development of Czech society after the year 1989, it describes changes in the educational structure which have occurred up to now. It focuses on the secondary and tertiary levels of the educational sphere and compares...