My Lifelong Learning Experience

The article lifelong learning: fostering a culture of curiosity by Toni Eaton published in creative nursing, volume 16 goes in to depth to prove how important the idea of lifelong learning is in the workforce especially for an occupation like nursing, in the paper he goes on to describe the reasons we need lifelong learning and the factors that aid it to be so essential like, evidence based learning, and human curiosity.

1.1 Summarise key aspects of legislation, regulatory requirements and codes of practice relating to own role and responsibilities

This essay is to demonstrate that I understand my own roles and responsibilities in lifelong learning.

I believe that one should constantly learn and seek new skills and information since it enhances one’s understanding of the world, provide opportunities, and develop skills. Committed to learning, I am willing to spend the necessary time to cultivate my mind in the quest for knowledge and I achieved this through diligence, perseverance, discipline, and by providing the best work possible in the workplace around me. This ambition to push for excellence would be a beneficial trait to have in the future, for I still strive to put quality into everything I do, even when I do not receive any recognition or praise, and this attitude would help me make rapid strides not only in my academic career but my life overall.

When the definition of education is looked up in the dictionary it comes out as “a degree, level, or kind of schooling”. While attending a university or obtaining a degree is largely viewed as being educated, there are many other ways to become educated rather than a degree with your name on it. Gerald Graff, and Mike Rose show their personal experience of being educated without a degree. Being educated is different for everybody, and regardless it’s the person’s personal experiences and lessons that lead them to thrive for an education in their own unique fashion. Mike Rose, professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, comes from a family of blue-collar workers.

Brief for Assignment 1: unit 008 (level 4): Roles, responsibilities and relationships in lifelong learning

Mary Francis and Jim Gould - A practical guide to successful teaching in the lifelong learning sector, second edition (2013) Sage Publications

Lifelong learning is on-going process. The role and responsibilities in lifelong learning sector is - we should always follow the relevant code of practice, key aspect of legislation & regulatory requirements. We should provide the resources and equipment those requirements of teaching professions. The aim of this unit is to develop our understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a teacher in lifelong learning and the relationship between different professionals in lifelong learning. It includes responsibility for maintaining a safe and supportive learning environment for learners.

Someone who is a lifelong Learner takes responsibility for their actions and also develop and maintain physical health and emotional stability. They objectively evaluate problems and seek moral and ethical solutions. To me someone who is a lifelong learner is able to maintain everything under control and being able to develop characteristic that will help them take responsibly for your actions. It also important to have great problem solving skills for them, so when there is a problem you can solve it right away.

Learning for life is a life outlook where someone decides to seek personal improvement opportunities throughout their entire lifespan. There is always some area of knowledge or technology where additional or new information can be beneficial. Through the use of distance learning, conference attendance, and traditional classroom attendance, the learner can enjoy employment benefits, more pay and even physical benefits making living easier. Becoming a life-long learner can be an experience that improves nearly every aspect of life.

Many people in history, as well as my mentors, have influenced my personal learning philosophy about early childhood learning.

Since I was a young girl, learning was something necessary to do in order to mature into my own self. It's something us as humans do to evolve from our younger selves. From learning to talk, walk ,and read we learn many things throughout our lifetime to be the person we are today. Learning is the key to life. Learning makes us progress. Riding a bicycle was a learning experience that I might never forget it.

Lifelong learning is the continuous building of skills and knowledge throughout the life of an individual. The first characteristic of lifelong learning is that it encompasses both formal and non-formal/informal types of education and training. Formal learning includes the hierarchically structured school system that runs from primary school through the university and organized school-like programs created in business for technical and professional training. Whereas informal learning describes a lifelong process whereby individuals acquire attitudes, values, skills and knowledge from daily experience and the educational influences and resources in his or her environment, from family and neighbors, from work and play,

This personal essay outlines key plans for my personal and professional development and success in the future. It shows how I will achieve these goals through continuous learning even after I have graduated. Furthermore, it tries to help the reader understand the need for lifelong learning. It is hoped that this paper will help change the perception of many about the learning process done only within certain periods of their life time.

Participations in small in-class groups which purpose was to accomplish a task assigned to us by our Professor, were the most powerful learning experiences for me. In developing common focus, as stated in Gitterman and Germain (2008), members need to establish group rules and also remember to “build on one another’s contributions, identify and focus on salient collective themes, invite expression of differences” (p. 174), as well as welcome opinions which are contradictory or different from the majority.