Literacy and lifelong learning ecosystem’ link.
The Efforts to promote literacy need to be anchored in a broader ecosystem of lifelong learning, adopting whole-of-government and whole-of society approaches to integrate literacy learning into people’s lives and work. Promoting learning in varied settings and spaces requires enabling literate environments, in which people can become motivated to be more literate and can acquire, use and advance their literacy skills. There have been some promising initiatives on this front. The Republic of Korea, for instance, has developed ‘a national culture of learning’ characterized by community-based literacy development, based on a whole-of-society approach and a lifelong learning ecosystem, involving well-established local governance systems. The Suwon City, one of the 180 learning cities in the country, has developed a dense network of learning facilities located within a 5–10-minute walk from all homes. Viet Nam has also built literate environments towards a learning society, including libraries, museums, cultural centres, clubs and Community Learning Centres (CLCs)
