Abstract
This paper aims to contribute to the debate about adult education and globalization and raises issues concerning the role of the nation state and information and multi-media technologies. In this article a new educational design in terms of a learning community is proposed through which the role of adult education within a context of globalization is scrutinized. The first section addresses key theoretical perspectives in the literature of lifelong education and community education. Attention turns to current theories of lifelong learning based on daily life. This is followed a learning community which is a public space whose resources are mobilized for learning with respect to its members. Attention is focused subsequently on the implementation of a pedagogy of civic and culture literacy, and the biographical competencies which individual require in order to survive in contemporary conditions of globalization. It concludes by posing a variety of strategies to encourage local institutions, such as the family, museum, public library, place of employment, study circle, bird watching club, community radio and television stations etc., to regard themselves as potential educative agencies for the community.
| Keywords: | learning community; globalization; lifelong learning; civic literacy |
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