Apt transformative path to Sustainable Development post COVID 19 pandemic: How lifelong learning should be revivified for the recovery of countries

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to advance the view that Lifelong Learning should be revivified for the fulfilment of the development recovery programmes of countries post COVID 19 pandemic. The informed position that the paper presents is that COVID 19 pandemic that has devastated the global economy and brought about social, political and environmental challenges, requires lifelong learning if sustainable development is to be realised. It is so because Lifelong Learning has capacity to serve as a vehicle for the education of the populace, which is important for the realisation of Sustainable Development. Lifelong Learning is the concept that allows the people to acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes from the time they are conceived to the time of their deaths (Womb to tomb). It is therefore pivotal to indicate that lifelong learning should be employed by countries in their recovery programmes from the effects of COVID 19 pandemic. It should motivate people to fully participate in the transformative processes that are geared towards the fulfilment of Sustainable Development. The function of Lifelong Learning in the reactivation of various sectors post COVID 19 cannot be undermined, hence the call by this paper for it to be revivified. To revivify Lifelong Learning will make it more relevant in the routing of the countries towards achieving Sustainable Development post the ravage that will be caused by the pandemic.

Keyword: Lifelong Learning, Sustainable Development, COVID 19, transformative and revivification.

DOI: 10.7176/JAAS/76-05

Publication date:October 31^st 2021