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lifelong learning

ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons
Class type of: adult education, pattern of behavior, learning Q368475

Facts

4 properties
Instance of
concept, learning approach[2]
Subclass of
adult education, pattern of behavior, learning[3][4][5]
Facet of
work flexibility[6]
Partially coincident with
continuing education, adult education[7][8]
🏷️ Also known as
en recurrent education en lifelong education en life-long learning en lifelong learning en life span education en permanent education en education permanente ar تعلم مدى الحياة cs celoživotní vzdělávání da livslang læring de lebenslanges Lernen el Δια βίου μάθηση es educación permanente es lifelong learning fa علم‌آموزی تمام عمر fi Elinikäinen oppiminen fr formation tout au long de la vie he למידה לאורך החיים hi l hu élethosszig tartó tanulás
🔖 Identifiers · 33
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85031562
GND ID
4134373-6
OpenAlex ID
C108771440, C2983731402
ABC News topic ID
lifelong-learning
Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID
96376
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/4384
Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID
1239
CNA topic ID
lifelong-learning
ERIC Thesaurus ID
Lifelong Learning
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
2eJWi0, 12BdtU
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
21051, 540196
Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
E0059908
Show all 33 identifiers +21
Europalexikon ID
309430
Freebase ID
/m/03wtp3
INAPP Thesaurus ID
16063
J9U entity ID
987007557833005171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
lifelong-learning
KBpedia ID
LifelongLearning
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
108771440
NALT ID
4385
NL CR AUT ID
ph119091
PSH ID
8203
Quora topic ID
Lifelong-Learning
STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
28410-6
SVKKL authority ID
h0002106-celozivotni-vzdelavani
TDKIV Wikibase ID
September 3
TDKIV term ID
000003206
Topic's main category
Category:Lifelong learning
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
91846
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept1488
Wellcome Collection concept ID
t8j2eggv
YSO ID
6262
Yale LUX ID
concept/9d36f0d9-c6a9-4826-b21d-00d988760335

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🔗 Connections
Partially coincident with 2
adult education, continuing education
Subclass of 2
learning, adult education
← Partially coincident with 2
adult education, continuing education
Instance of 1
concept
TDKIV Wikibase ID 1
September 3
Topic's main category 1
Category:Lifelong learning
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Lifelong learning
← Depicts 1
continual learning
← Field of work 1
Sofia Corradi
← Main subject 1
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Summary

lifelong learning is a concept[1].

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 2eJWi0, 12BdtU
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
  2. 18w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Europalexikon ID → 309430
    "Created claim: Europalexikon ID: 309430, Matched to Lebenslanges Lernen (#112025744) in Europalexikon…"
  3. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0002106-celozivotni-vzdelavani
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: h0002106-celozivotni-vzdelavani, batch #259662"
  4. 27w ago · Zhenqinli · 2026-05-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → work flexibility
    Instance of → concept, learning approach
    Partially coincident with → continuing education, adult education
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021) → 21051, 540196
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021): 540196, Matched to #mix'n'match 终身教育 (#150739296) for Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)"
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