ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to illuminate the context in which the Faure Report, which brought to the fore the concept of education permanente, was situated. The concept of education permanente provided continuity in the transition between the post-war years and the socially transformative 1970s in that it fit into UNESCO's humanistic worldview while reflecting the political and intellectual climate of that time, in particular in France. The chapter traces the various underpinnings of education permanente and the French and international influences exerted on the concept in the global context of societal debates on education. The Peuple et Culture Manifesto of 1945 was inspired by the experience of the Resistance, in which workers, artists and intellectuals had fought together to liberate their country from Nazi occupation and build a new type of society. Around the year 1960 education permanente emerged in UNESCO as a programmatic educational paradigm out of adult education circles.
