چکیده (انگلیسی):

Information, access to information and communication technologies leading to rapid and profound changes in economic and
social life makes the lifelong learning a must for everyone and mostly adults. In Turkey, adult education, in terms of lifelong
learning, starts in such institutions which aimed to make the individual freer, transformative and egalitarian so-called Village
Institutions in 1940s, Open Education at Anadolu University etc.Adult education varies in all over the world. However, it has
some universal goals such as managing the individual’ life, self-sufficiency, learning by doing and practicing, In the philosophy
of adult education lies making the adults contemporary, secular and responsible citizens who quest, think, comment and try to
make the life easier and happier.Lifelong learning, together with the European Union Harmonization Laws, is a term widely used
today in Turkey, though, was actually adopted in the history of Republic of Turkey from the first day of national development
and applied in our educational history