Vana Papalois-theodosopoulou

Life Lessons in Intercultural Lifelong Learning: the Case of Cultural Catalysts Vana Papalois-theodosopoulou

This book bears good news from the front of INTERCULTURAL LIFELONG LEARNING at a time of global economic uncertainty and recession. A learning revolution in informal lifelong learning takes place in our global village of satellite media culture, cheap trans -continental travel opportunities and modern distance learning technology. Bringing together the objectives of OECD, Unesco and the EU for lifelong learning in the 21st century this book introduces a new ?learn by life' popular culture perspective by using an innovative language ?reading for meaning' tool called Idiolect Definition (ID). A set of cultural ?catalyst' products such as proverbs, the Aesop's fables, pieces of literature in poetic and prose format as well as the unique educational value of Socratic dialogue are discussed in this book as powerful tools of informal lifelong learning across cultural borders.