대학의 평생교육적 전환과 대학평생교육원의 새로운 역할 탐색

Lifelong Learning Society and the New Tasks for University Lifelong Education Centers

The new era of lifelong learning society needs universities to be changed. It has needed new appropriate higher education system to be made, which could fit into the change of the educational environments. In this situation, as one mode of higher education, universities have also been needed to adjust and re-conceptualize their identities and roles to the requirements of the times, so-called lifelong learning society. In this paper, the researcher tried to ask what the lifelong learning society is, what it calls upon universities to do, and how the universities can deal with it. As a result of the research, it could be cleared that universities must boldly expand their borders and roles and need to recreate the vision and mission to survive under the new learning environments of lifelong learning society. In this point, the lifelong-educationalization of the universities is needed and the university lifelong education centers have to play an important role in it. But current university lifelong education centers do not seem to be suitable to the newly required roles for the universities. So in this paper, the researcher suggested a new mission of them and proposed some new roles and tasks for them. Although it might be a kind of plot or an idea, the researcher s sure it could be realized and make universities be changed to fit in well with the requirements of the lifelong learning society.