THE NEED FOR LIFELONG LEARNING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAKIA AS A WORLDWIDE CONSEQUENCE OF GLOBALIZATION

The paper deals with non-formal education in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the paper non-formal education is conceived as one of the consequences of globalization efforts in today's society, which puts the emphasis on flexibility in life and on the labour market, what is referred to as "flexicurity". In the introduction, the issue of non-formal education is put within lifelong learning and social contexts in connection with the labour market. Then it is followed by a clarification of the terminology of the concepts of lifelong learning and non-formal education. The aim of the paper is a comparison of the total participation in non-formal education in the Czech Republic and Slovakia with the status of non-formal education in the EU28 countries. After determining the hypotheses for the studied issues, the analysis and synthesis of data obtained from Eurostat are carried out.