This article focuses on the dynamic relationships between the growing importance of lifelong learning (LLL) and consequent devaluation of adult education in national level educational policies, plans and programmes in India. It argues that by adapting the new paradigm of LLL, which is largely driven by marketcentric neoliberal principles, Indian adult education has lost its core and traditional learning ecology as there is a gradual submission to the pursuit of global economic competitiveness. It identifies three main reasons for the submission: (1) the metamorphosis from welfare to market principles in reforming education; (2) blind acceptance and misunderstanding of LLL as an educational and not a political discourse; (3) fragmented reforms in revamping adult education in India in the last decades.

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印度终身学习的兴起与成人教育的衰落

本文重点关注印度国家级教育政策、计划和项目中终身学习 (LLL) 日益增长的重要性与随之而来的成人教育贬值之间的动态关系。它认为，通过适应主要由以市场为中心的新自由主义原则驱动的 LLL 新范式，印度成人教育已经失去了其核心和传统的学习生态，因为人们逐渐屈服于对全球经济竞争力的追求。它确定了提交的三个主要原因：（1）教育改革中从福利原则向市场原则的转变；(2) 盲目接受和误解 LLL 作为教育而非政治话语；(3) 过去几十年印度成人教育改革的零散改革。