The percentage of Korea's elderly population is growing at an accelerated rate. In fact, it has taken Korea about 20 years, or about half the time, for Korea's elderly population to reach the levels of other advanced nations (It is projected that the elderly population will reach 14.4% in 2019). Accordingly, the need for the following issues have become increasingly important: incorporating the elderly into the workforce; developing lifelong employment, welfare, and education as well as educational support policies; personalized lifelong education programs tailored to the needs of the elderly; and developing education programs that can utilize the elderly as instructors. In this session we will cover these social demands in greater detail, and try to discuss strategies for developing sustainable and specialized lifelong education policies. [Track A] Sessionâ…£: Framing Lifelong Education Policies for the Era of Centenarians [Moderator] Unshil Choi, President, National Instit! ute for Lifelong Education(NILE) [Speakers] Peter Jarvis, Professor, Univ. of Surrey [Speakers] Harry Patrinos, Lead Education Economist, The World Bank [Discussants] Simon Field, Project Leader, OECD [Discussants] Dooseung Kwon, President, The Korean Society for the Study of Lifelong Education
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