Factors Effecting Students’ Lifelong Learning in Higher Education

Authors : Mustafa BAYRAKÇI, Hande DİNDAR

Pages : 11-20

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Publication Date : 2015-05-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :More and more the concept of lifelong learning gains importance in both governmental and educational perspectives. As higher education is dominant force in education, learners’ experiences in higher education will have ramifications for the practice of teaching and learning at all levels. In this study it is aimed to identify who is the lifelong learner through literature review then a scale was conducted to undergraduate university students. After determining the factors and dimensions of the scale, ANOVA and t-test have been made to specify if there is any difference between undergraduate university students in terms of their gender, age, programs they study, grade, family income. The results show that gender doesn’t lead any changes among factors effecting lifelong learning of students in general, except the dimension “Curiosity” in which female students with higher points differ significantly from male students. Also factors effecting undergraduate students’ lifelong learning significantly differ according to programme they study in favor of students at literature branches while age differences, grade differences and family income differences don’t lead any significant change.
Keywords : lifelong learner, student, higher education