The Modern Aspect of Education Ecology: the Concept of Lifelong Learning in the Context of Information Society

—The article analyzes the concept of “lifelong learning” on the basis of the complexity and diversity of education as a system. The article researches the history of this concept occurrence and the specificity of its implementation in modern information society, and also examines the place of the concept in the system of ecology education, an essential element of which is the human person. Analyzing the essence of the "lifelong learning" concept, as outlined in the Memorandum of continuing education of the EU and in the context of the Bologna educational system, the authors produce a comparative analysis of instrumental and classical education, and draw conclusions about the necessity of fundamental and applied aspects harmonization in the system of "education of a lifetime".