The Importance of Lifelong Learning and the Opportunities for its Realization in the Work of Practicing Teachers

Abstract

Today’s fast-growing, constantly and acceleratedly changing world and the increased information flow makes 21st century teachers face a big challenge. The result is that teachers – if they want to keep pace with the changed circumstances, whether they desire it or not – are constantly forced to learn and train themselves in order to learn quality work and advanced techniques. In order to facilitate teachers’ work there are various state accredited trainings availiable in Serbia. In this work we asked teachers of several elementary schools in Vojvodina - in which the education takes place in Hungarian language, too – about what their experience with lifelong learning is, how often they attend trainings, whether the find these useful, what they would change about them and how they would improve them.