Abstract
Lifelong learning will provide educational bridge to the 21st century. The principle concern in this article is that governments need to emphasize lifelong learning through fostering regional and transnational alliances and building relationships with private and the third sectors in order to contribute to the large learning networks.
At first, I present an overview on the lifelong learning programs ran by Taipei City Government from 1997 to the present. Then multiliteracies pedagogy including civic literacy, political and economic literacy, work literacy, family literacy, information and media literacy, ABE/literacy with health education are suggested in order to account for both radical changes occurring in the nature of public community and economic life, and growing a variety of text forms associated with information and multimedia technologies. Under the conditions of a risk society, I argue that lifelong education has its own specific mission to foster a variety of knowledge, a critical attitude and a value in the creation of human potential.
| Keywords: | lifelong learning; the state; multiliteracies; and globalization |
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