Rethinking the Role of Adults for Building the LIFELONG Learning Society

AbstractToday, the world is changing, re-establishing the role of education in order to have a developed society. Ideas as education and lifelong learning society must be present in every people’ mind, because a good education starts with a better perspective on parent education, on rethinking the role of adults in order to respond to the educational challenge of an ageing population in Europe. In reality, adults are not only supervisors; they are educators whose actions have many consequences for the schooling system and for the future decisions on lifelong learning activities.All these ideas are very present in European policy and EU strategic documents. A big step towards new pedagogical patterns, which involves reflecting on some educational relationships and situations, require re-thinking the role of adults, of the informal learning, and understanding that formal education must be completed by the parent's education, adapted to the global society