Roksana Neczaj
Learning as one of contemporary challenges

Lifelong education is one of determinants of European knowledge-based society development. In Polish national system of education there exists a document The Strategy of Lifelong Learning Development till 2010. This strategy intends to influence a development of adults education and adapts Polish solution to European Union standards.

The article aims at presenting, on the basis of the strategy, a role and a function of lifelong learning, and at describing regulations and directions of development. The author analyses a definition of lifelong learning given by Ministry of National Education and Sport in Poland in comparison with other definitions.