Temporalstrukturen 'lebenslangen' Lernens. Lebenslängliche Zumutung und lebensentfaltendes Potenzial

The notion of lifelong learning is reshaping the structural principle according to which learning is organised in the time structures of society. Long periods of time spent in schools are becoming more flexible, with shorter sections of ordered learning times being distributed throughout people´s lives and more flexible transitions taking place between work and learning. The three-phase scheme for working life training, work and retirement is becoming more flexible. The LLL concept can be seen to be a reflection of the economic need for permanent adjustment and accommodation. It also creates new possibilities for structuring peoples personal lives over time as well as their learning and vocational biographies. In order to define this aspect more adequat ely, the author makes a case for coining the term life-developing education.