The Four Pillars of Learning
Learning: The treasure within (1996), or the Report of the Delors Commission on Education for the 21st Century, is based on a vision of four pillars of learning to know, to do, to be and to live together. Much like the Faure Report Learning To Be (1972), the Delors Report has been widely recognized as a key reference for thinking on education.
Learning: The treasure within
The Delors Report proposed a holistic and integrated vision of education based on the paradigms of lifelong learning, and the four pillars of learning to be, to know, to do, and to live together. Building on the earlier vision of the 1972 Faure report (see below), the Delors Report further developed the thinking taking into account the societal changes that had occurred over the last quarter of the 20th century.
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Learning to Be: The world of education today and tomorrow
The Faure Report builds on the two key ideas of lifelong education and the learning society. It claims that “learning is a process that lasts a lifetime, both in its duration and its diversity”. While lifelong education is considered to be the cornerstone of educational policies, the learning society is seen as a strategy aimed at committing society as a whole to education.
Selected References
The Delors Report: A guide towards education for all (2008)
Education for the 21st Century: Lessons and challenges (2008)
Policy Learning: Can Government discover the treasure within? (2007)
Four Pillars of Learning for the Reorientation and Reorganization of Curriculum (2005)
A Look Before and After the Delors Commission Report (2000)
Adult Education Policy Projections in the Delors Report (1997)
Manuals and Other Resources
Learning to Do: Values for Learning and Working Together in a Globalized World (2005)
Learning to Be: A Holistic and Integrated Approach to Values Education and Human Development UNESCO (2002)
Learning Together Throughout our Lives Discussion kit on the report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the 21st Century. (1997)
Composite Learning Index Canadian Council on Learning
European Lifelong Learning Indicators (Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2008)
Country & Regional Perspectives
Estudios Críticos de la Obra : La Educacion Encierra un Tesoro (2008)
Hacia una Vision Compleja de la Sociedad de la Informacion y sus Implicaciones para la Educacion (2001)
Education for the Twenty-First Century: A South Australian Perspective (1999)
Implications of the Delors Report for Schooling in South Australia (1999).
The Delors Report within the American Context (1998)
