How could the educational systems nowadays respond better to social and economic needs?

Why is it so difficult to improve the positions of ‘atypical’ learning modes? Why has been the progress of so slow?

Which are the major constraints of a breakthrough of modernisation in education?

The questions are not brand new, but the book Learning – in the New Lifelong and Lifewide Perspectives from Anikó Kálmán offers smart responses, with innovative combinations of sectoral knowledge and recent research. It throws light from new angles on the dynamic relationships of core elements.

The book offers a journey through the essentials of lifelong learning, widening the spectrum of impact factors of its contemporary implementation. Comprehensive and eye-opening at the same time, the study highlights models for novel approaches to the successful realisation in the recent complex socio-economic environment.

Anikó Kálmán, PhD, Dr.habil. is recognized as high standing expert in Europe in the field of Andragogy. She acted as Director at the Lifelong Learning Centre of Debrecen University. Anikó is now Associate Professor in adult education and lifelong learning at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.