Revitalisation
Revitalisation of the Faculty of Education
Given the stress on the importance of opportunities for learning throughout life, schools are no longer seen as the first and foremost learning institution in a community.
The extension of the opportunity to enjoy access to a high-quality and empowering curriculum solely to those of school age has been overtaken by ideals of inclusiveness, access and participation in learning across the lifespan.
This means that teachers, educational administrators and curriculum policy-makers and planners need now to train for helping learners of a wide variety of ages, backgrounds, abilities and interests to take advantage of the learning opportunities available and consciously offered to them by and through all the human and technical resources of an educational institution.
Schools need to be re-conceptualised as centres of community learning offering lifelong learning for all. The Faculty of Education at ACU National is exploring the implications of lifelong learning for teacher education and, through the provision of its programs and the range of its offerings, it is revitalising its education programs in line with the concern for lifelong learning for all.
