LEARNING CITIES AGENDA: THE UPDATE VERSION OF ADULT EDUCATION IN CHINA
Abstract
The adult education is an important part of Chinese education system, especially for the illiteracy work since the establishment of PRC. However, the adult education is getting weak since the end of 20th century, the adult education practitioners, researchers, and who worked in the adult education need to find a new idea to update the old adult education, meanwhile, the learning society and learning cities idea are getting popular during that time, the Chinese mega-city like Beijing and Shanghai start using the term Learning Cities because they want to build learning society at municipal level, so the learning city idea and practice is updating as the new version of adult education, it covers the traditional field (illiteracy) as well as some new territory, such as community education, vocational training, and senior citizen education etc. Since the 2013 Beijing International Conference on Learning Cities, many cities are rethinking of the learning cities work. There some new ideas are accepted widely, such as sustainable development, new technology and media etc, the learning cities idea is getting changed and ready for the future.
Key words:
Learning Cities; adult education; lifelong learning; China
