Lifelong learning is the keyword and it is always linked with globalization. With the stress to lose out in global economic competitions, governments are determined to promote lifelong learning and use it help to boost the economy in terms of knowledge.
Lifelong learning is seems as a package in the educational system. Government has looked into lifelong learning development and promotion carefully. For example, in Singapore, Continuing Education and Training (CET) master plan is a comprehensive plan to prepare the Singapore workforce for the future, The plan provide the fundamental of a lifelong learning system to help workers find their niches, seize opportunities in new growth areas and remain relevant and employable (Ministry of Manpower).
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The first station to nursing advancement move from Certificate to Diploma in Nursing and Post-Basic certification of Specialised to Advanced Diploma level was by the School of Health Science in Nanyang Polytechnic and Ngee Ann Polytechnic which both are CET centre. Lifelong learning is associated with the arrival of compulsory continuing nursing educations (know as post registration education) which are important to keep nurses abreast of changes, updating their knowledge and competency. In today’s competitive world, Singapore nurse education that entail lifelong learning includes trends in Continuing Nursing Education (CNE). CNE consists of various educational activities that maintain and develop the knowledge, skills and professional practice of nurses. Nurses need to maintain their competencies through CNE in order to provide safe patient care and to keep pace with advances and innovations in healthcare. Every nurse has to achieve 15 CNE points yearly to remain competent in her professional practice as well as to achieve a renewal of professional certification (Singapore Nursing Board). For components in lifelong learning in nursing, it may includes the following like an understanding of evidence-based healthcare and critical appraisal, familiarity with informatics, literature search and retrieval strategies, practice-based learning and improvement methods like self-reflection and assessment or …show more content…
From the perspective of lifelong learning, it is worthwhile as learning has been used to deliver teaching to society, self and organisation. However, lifelong learning triggers to understand the purpose and process in formal education like school. In some way, it imposes even more challenge to the formal educational institution which focuses on higher education.
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This paper argues that the purpose of lifelong learning moved towards economic determinism rather than personal development to face and adapt to the ever-changing globalization changes. Lifelong learning covers all ages of people, and focus not only the knowledge but learning through life. Learning can take place in any situation and place.
Lifelong learning focusing the three elements like self, organisation and society, the three elements are main points existed to focus on contemporary lifelong learning. At the end, they emphasizes the effect of lifelong learning has on the eventual fate of financial, socio-political and social
As Wlodkowski (2008) contends, most people show consistency throughout adulthood. Traits, habits, modes of thinking, and the ways by which people cope and interact remain stable through old age. In other words, motivations seems stabilize in adult learning which may lead to future participation in education (Gorges & Kandler, 2011). In order to see their values on learning, classifying the four beliefs suggested by Wigfield et al. (2011) is required. Firstly, the attainment value which refers to the importance of activity could be seen from students rational in taking English course. Secondly, the intrinsic value which refers to the enjoyment in doing the activity could be seen on how they respond to the task given by the teacher and their engagement in the classroom activities. Thirdly, utility value which refers to the usefulness of activity for the future can also be seen from their reasons why taking this course. It is assumed that some of them might want to take a higher degree in education, while others want advance in their job. Finally, cost value which refers to effort to finish the activity could be seen from their commitment in learning. Attending class on time is an evidence that they value this English
The IOM reported the aim of future of nursing is to create improvement in the health of Americans through nursing profession, also to meet need of the different environmental health settings in which they will practice. It is important nurses get advanced education and training. IOM recommended “80 per cent of nurses to get BSN in nursing by the year 2020” (Institute of medicine, 2010). Doing this will enable those nurses to use their critical thinking skills and research to enhance quality of nursing care. The understanding is that nurses need to achieve advanced
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Constant change and a flat, global competitive market landscape were described by Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat, as triple convergence and was a result of the ten flatteners. Friedman also stated that in “Globalization 1.0, countries had to think globally. In Globalization 2.0, companies had to think globally to thrive, or at least survive. In Globalization 3.0, individuals have to think globally to thrive, or at least survive.” (Friedman, 2007) The concept of needing individuals to think globally and thrive in the market led Friedman to travel and report on various educational cultures across the world. Friedman was determined to find “the right stuff” to make the youth in future generations competitive globally.
The term non-traditional student has been redefined as the baby boomers flood colleges across the nation. “The very phrase lifelong learning speaks volumes about the integration of education across the life course. A variety of lifelong learning opportunities have emerged over the last two decades,” (Morgan, Kunkel, & Morgan, 2011, p. 289). Cincinnati State offers adult learner...
Students increasingly demand a type of education that allows them to update their knowledge when necessary and to continue to do so throughout their working lives (McIntosh, & Varoglu, 2005; Tomlinson, 2007). The debates on lifelong learning and learning skills continue to emphasize independent and self-directed learning as a central need (Strivens & Grant, 2000). The ability to engage in critical self-assessment is viewed as a meta-skill that would aid students in managing their general life both during and after university (Knight & Yorke, 2002). Based on this view, suggestions are raised to educational institutions concerning learning cultures that help students know what they are learning and why and how to develop the claims to achievement that make them more successful. Teachers are expected to design promising learning environments and help students discover what they afford, what might be learned, how and why (Knight & Yorke, 2003). According to the authors (Strivens and Grant, 2000), if learners have an accurate awareness of their levels of achievement in skills, in conjunction with a desirable skill profile for a job or a range of jobs, they will be able to recognize when and where they need to improve their level of skill. It has also been
Education remains a cornerstone for society as it has for decades. Technology advances, the economy fluctuates, and politics change, but education remains, not only important but imperative for personal and social growth. Yet, as important as it is touted to be, the quality and purpose of learning is often lost in the assembly-line, manufactured process of education that exists today.
It is important that students have the ability of being competent in a clinical setting. To be deemed competent in skills according to nursing regulations and requirements. This is a challenging factor for many students, as they enter transition period. This is due to students feel they do not have the desired clinical competency that promotes the skills and authorities of a registered nurse (Harsin, Soroor & Soodabeh, 2012). Clinical research studies have found that students do have the required expected levels of knowledge, attitude and behaviour’s. However, the range of practical skills aren’t sufficient for the range of practice settings (Evans, 2008). This research has also found that other evidenced based studies found that competency in nursing skills is still lacking (Evans, 2008). These skills are lacked by students and newly graduated nursing how are in the first or second year of
Learning is considered a long term goal as it helps in continuity and evolution professionally (Thibault, 2011). It is important for me to be updated for best possible care provision. I will achieve this by developing interest to study towards attainment of highest levels of education for example PHD programs, attending education forums hosted by different universities, workshops and health seminars. My other long term ambitions include joining nurses’ professional organizations, administration duties and management skill acquisition and job promotions.
Nurses need a seat at the table to ensure they have a voice to influence and shape their future. Nursing is constantly evolving and changing, and employers continue to raise the bar for nursing. Nurses understand early in their career the importance of continuing education to enhance future career opportunities. Professional development relates to how nurses continue to broaden their knowledge, skills, and expertise throughout their career, therefore enhancing their professional practice. This advanced knowledge is not only career boosting, but also opens a seat at the table giving nurses the power to make decisions and effect changes. Professional development and continuing education are more important to nurses now than ever before to keep up with the rapid changes in healthcare today. Numminen, Leino-Kilpi, Isoaho and Meretoja’s (2017) article contends professional development enhances personal satisfaction, rejuvenates the love of nursing, builds confidence and credibility. There are many avenues to pursue
Singapore’s education journey can be divided into three broad phases namely the Survival-Driven Education (1959 – 1978), Efficiency-Driven Education (1979 -1996) and the Ability-Based, Aspiration-Driven Education which Singapore has adopted since late 1990s. The education policies have evolved to address the context of the country’s stage of development and the challenges it faces at each point. More recently, we are transiting into a knowledge-based economy to face external challenges such as market volatility, increasing globalisation and rapid technological advancement. As Singapore does not have its own natural resources, it is a necessity to develop the people to their fullest to survive. And as the future becomes more volatile with rapid
2) If a person is willing to learn and wants to learn, then there is nothing they cannot learn. On the other hand if a person is not willing to learn nothing you say will make them want to learn. Sometimes the person believes they are an expert on something and know it all, so in their mind there is not anything you can teach them, this is not true. There is always learning to be learned, no one person knows it all. I will always be a lifelong learner, I learn something new everyday. I love to set down and talk with another person, whether it just your everyday subject of life, love and family or having a deep intellectual conversation on the of evaluation and the facts that support the theory and the fact that disarm it, either way I guarantee you will learn something that you did not know when the conversation started. Have you ever sat with your grandparents and just listen to there story’s, now there is learning you cannot get anywhere else, yet most young people do not take the time to listen. “With an open mind and a willingness to learn, we the lifelong learners are unstoppable.” (T.R) “If knowledge is power, then we the lifelong learners are the powerful.” I strive to be a lifelong learner, as should you. Do not just learn the minimum required to get by in life and or your studies, for if you stop at good enough, you will never know how if feels to be great. I think the definition of a lifelong learner is this, it is someone who is always willing to learn of new ideas and new information, and will seek out ways of expanding their knowledge, taking all they know and all they have learned and putting it to good use. They will never say, “no thank you, I already know all I need to on that subject.” instead they will say, “tell me more”. To me that is what a lifelong learner is, and this is what I strive to
What is the purpose of Lifelong Learning? Lifelong learning is the concept that learning and opportunities can go beyond that of compulsory education, as well as traditional routes, both academic and vocational. With ever expanding economic growth and globalization, the need for new skills is more prominent and lifelong learning and adult education is seen to have become a governmental response to socio-economic inequality, the financial crisis as well as the growing competition within industry both nationally and internationally. The notion of lifelong learning also presents itself as a “trinity.
In the course article, Framework for Community Health Nursing, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for South-East Asia discusses this topic from the perspective of future nursing education. From the literature I learned about the importance of driving the nursing profession towards the community health-care system. There is currently a need for revitalization of the primary health care systems as stated in this document. There is a need to change some of the focuses of education and training in new nurses in an effort to respond to the health care demands of today and the future since many students are not going into this field. In addition, nurses already working in community health should begin focusing on current prevention and promotion aspects of health. I plan to apply these ideas in my
As we know, human being keep learning though all their lives, Sometimes I am thinking how we adult learning. In this book, I found them--some related concepts about adult learning and ways to Self-Direct Learning(SDL). Before reading this book. I already knew what is the adult learner is. In China, students who are over 18 years old are the adult in General Principles Of the Civil Law. In some perspectives, University education can be called adult education. It is new for me to learn this knowledge, so I chose the first eight chapters of the textbook.