Lifelong Learning and Wanting to Learn
Vol.17,No.1(2012)
Educating the Adults
The slogan “lifelong learning from the cradle to the grave” which we hear preached on all sides is impressed (if not pressed) upon the public at large. On the one hand, the authorities, employers, unions and sector organizations seek to encourage responsible citizenship in people’s lives and work. On the other hand, organizations wish to make it absolutely clear to employees that their employability is their own responsibility and that they will need to learn. It is strange that the brandishing of the slogan lifelong learning stands in such stark contrast to the ambiguous situation of adult education and training and development in organizations. In this contribution I therefore enquire whether the truth of the social constructivist approach to learning is perhaps no more than “the lie that people expect of you” (a phrase borrowed from the Dutch poet Gerrit Komrij). My underlying thesis is that the time has come to replace the dominant social constructivist approach. In its place we need an approach that is more firmly grounded on empirical knowledge and understanding, an approach that assigns a key role to the classic psychological concepts of motivation and emotion.
lifelong learning; motivation; motivation principles; emotions
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