ABSTRACT In most of the scholarly work, the history of lifelong education (LLE) begins in the 1960s, when the concept gathered momentum as part of the agendas of the OECD, World Bank, UNESCO, and Council of Europe. A pre-1960s history is acknowledged with a few names and dates and is generally absorbed into the history of adult education. This paper presents new data that suggests revising the history of the conceptualisation of LLL and LLE prior to 1960. In 2018 and 2019, the author ran a series of queries on Google Books Search with the terms lifelong education and lifelong learning that turned up results for 161 unique documents published in the UK and the USA between 1839 and 1959. This paper is an overview and a preliminary analysis of the retrieved data that falls within public, academic, official, and creative discourses. Two groups of results are discussed: 1) the body of displayed documents and 2) the approaches, advantages, and limitations of collecting and examining the Google Books data as part of a term-based concept analysis. This study adds to the pre-global history of LLE in the UK and the USA and lays the groundwork for further exploration of the topic.

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用谷歌图书绘制全球前终身教育史：1839-1959

摘要 在大多数学术著作中，终身教育 (LLE) 的历史始于 1960 年代，当时这一概念作为经合组织、世界银行、联合国教科文组织和欧洲委员会议程的一部分获得了动力。1960 年代之前的历史以一些名称和日期被承认，并且通常被吸收到成人教育的历史中。本文提供的新数据建议修改 1960 年之前 LLL 和 LLE 的概念化历史。在 2018 年和 2019 年，作者在 Google 图书搜索上使用终身教育和终身学习这两个术语进行了一系列查询，结果显示为1839 年至 1959 年间在英国和美国出版的 161 份独特文件。本文是对公共、学术、官方和创造性话语中检索到的数据的概述和初步分析。讨论了两组结果：1) 显示文档的主体和 2) 作为基于术语的概念分析的一部分，收集和检查 Google 图书数据的方法、优点和局限性。这项研究增加了英国和美国 LLE 的全球历史，并为进一步探索该主题奠定了基础。