Reconceptualising the role of motivating factors in life long learning: A sociological perspective

Aimed at formal education, vocational training and personal development, Life Long Learning is a process through which individuals acquire knowledge, skills and values in a range of formal, non-formal and informal settings, throughout life. Such a provision of learning facilitates citizens to make positive contributions to society, to the vulnerable environment, the community and the personality development as well. It endows individuals with appropriate skills, compliance and enhanced way to employment thus empowering people to contribute to the economy using their logical and rational affluence. Associations and communities that embrace a lifelong learning culture are more adaptive and durable and better competent to meet new economic, social and cultural inclinations. The societal reimbursement of Life Long Learning is evenly imperative as it offers individuals with prospects to widen self-knowledge, self-esteem, societal well being besides acting as a key agency to sustainable development. The socialization of people in particular value systems; it is through Life Long Learning that skills and information is being developed gradually and applied in new ways and means. Moreover, it is also an agency to sustainable development particularly for morals, social regulations, behavior and finally environmental concern. New demands need more skills and knowledge to be able to function in their day to day lives which has automatically shaped up the relevance of Life Long Learning thereby preparing people to handle changing situations in contemporary techno-savvy life style.

This paper argues about the sociological perspective, conceptualization and relevance of Life Long Learning in the contemporary era. Also the paper will pay special attention to enumerate and highlight all those significant motivating or attracting sociological factors which prompt people to embrace LLL besides deliberating upon the key social factors and problems beset to the universality of Life Long Learning.