Konceptualizacja idei lifelong learning w prawie UE: ujęcie historyczno-prawne
The conceptualisation of the idea of lifelong learning in EU law: a historical legal approach

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the analysis of the process of conceptualising the idea of lifelong learning in EU law from a historical-legal perspective, to demonstrate the evolution of the idea of learning throughout the life – from its roots in the right to education and in international legal instruments to its further development within the EU legal order. The research indicates how the concept, promoted by the United Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe, evolved in the documents of these organisations, and was subsequently transposed into EU law as an instrument of the European Union’s policy and as a mechanism for strengthening social cohesion, employability, and equal opportunities. The analysis encompasses soft law documents and EU legal acts from 1957 to 2007, as well as selected international legal instruments, reconstructing the dual (international and EU-level) model of the development of the concept lifelong learning. The author also identifies the socio-economic and structural factors accompanying the process of its anchoring within the EU legal system.

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