in this section I intend to distinguish between learning and education conceptually and then show how lifelong education became lifelong learning.
Learning is an existential phenomenon it is intrinsic to our being and to a great extent it is experiential, although in pre-conscious learning we have to recognize that some of our experiences may actually be precognitive and pre-conscious, as we discussed in the first chapter. Fundamentally, however, learning is experiential it is what we do with our experience and so there is a sense in which its basis may also be found in phenomenology; that is, it is about our experience of everyday life. At the same time, we have to recognize that learning is more than phenomenal since our experiences are affected by the experience we have: it is also affected by the social structures within which we exist, and so on. making the claim that learning is intrinsic to our being, we can see immediately that the study of learning has as many academic bases as there are disciplines that study the human being that the study of learning must be multidisciplinary Jarvis and Parker, 2005: Jarvis, 2009).
At its very least, learning is the transformation of our experiences of living so that they affect us as persons in this sense they become part of our biography and so we can begin to see the parameters of learning Elsewhere Jarvis, 2009a:25) l have defined learning as the combination of processes throughout a lifetime whereby the whole person body(genetic, physical and biological) and mind(knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, emotions, meaning, beliefs and senses) experiences social situations, the content of which is then transformed cognitively, emotively or practically(or through any combination) and integrated into the individual person's biography resulting in a continually changing(or more experi enced) person