Dr. Paul Bélanger

Dr. Paul Bélanger is currently a professor in the Education Faculty at the Université du Québec à Montréal and director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Lifelong Learning.

A former Director of the Canadian Institute for Adult Education and of the Applied Research Centre on Work (1972-1984), Paul Bélanger was the director of the UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg, Germany from 1989 to 2000.

After a master’s degree in political science from the University of Montreal, Bélanger took graduate studies at Manchester University in the United Kingdom and received a doctorate from the Sorbonne in Paris in 1976. Later, he received an honourary doctoral degree from the University of Surrey.

He is author and co-author of many publications and papers including, Lifelong Learning (Kluwer, 1995); Shifting Patterns in Adult Education Participation (Pergamon, 1997); Transitions toward LLL: social indicators (Tokyo, 1998); Unlocking Peoples’ Creative Force: a Transnational Analysis of Adult Learning Policies (UNESCO 2000); “Learning Cities, Concept and Issues” in Duke, et al. 2006; Making Knowledge Work (NIACE); and Portrait of Work-related Learning in Quebec (Ottawa 2008: CCL/ WLKC).

Paul Bélanger is the President of the International Council for Adult Education, Member of the Russian Education Academy, and Life Member of the National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE) in Great Britain.