A System for Education Permanente

Abstract

Developments in psychotechnology, information and communications technology, organisational technology and systems technology promise new opportunities for personal and cultural development. Lifelong education through new and old systems will need a new breed of educator— steeped in educational technology—who can analyse, plan, produce or manage the complex organisations of human and electronic systems likely to be needed to provide educational opportunities. A radical interpretation of educational technology is presented here, followed by the development of a conceptual model of education permanente that allows the theoretician or practitioner of educational technology to identify educational opportunities within and outside existing institutions. We are closer to a system for education permanente than might be imagined.