Since the dawn of the XXth century, European educational policies have gradually stressed the necessity of lifelong learning in both civil and labour contexts (Jarvis, 2009). In France, even though prestigious authors had stressed this trend during the...
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Since the dawn of the XXth century, European educational policies have gradually stressed the necessity of lifelong learning in both civil and labour contexts (Jarvis, 2009). In France, even though prestigious authors had stressed this trend during the Enlightenment era, with, for example Voltaire and Condorcet’s pleas for permanent education, full momentum was reached at the end of the century with a 1971 law on further education at work, and the EU’s 1995 “learning society” report. Since then, French governments repeatedly introduced legislation that focused on the individual learner’s role in constantly upgrading his or her professional competence, whether it be through recognition of prior experience (2002), personal learning accounts (2004, 2014), lifelong professional guidance (2009), and the recent law “for the freedom to choose one’s professional future” (2018).
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