1992 年 28 巻 p. 117-132
Recently there is growing official interest in the relationship between adult education and lifelong education/learning policy in Japan. It is, however, more important to analyze the relationship between the political issues and lifelong education policy. Because lifelong education functions as an instrument of national economics, social and educational policy in the histolical process. In this paper I compares recent policy initiatives in Japan, United Kingdom and Australia from viewpoint on the relationship to the political issues. And in this analysis I adopt a new typology by Keiichi Matsushita. The most urgent topic concerns that their policys affects by the level of modernization:there appears to be a conflict between lifelong education provisions and the contemporary political and economic climate.