Influences on teacher trainers’ lifelong learning competencies

The purpose of this paper was to explore teacher trainers’ perceptions of lifelong learning competences as well as the impacts of new learning communities and learning strategies on their competences. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 12 teacher trainers in education degree colleges in Myanmar selected by purposive sampling. According to the findings, they perceived lifelong learning as a learning to keep update with the contemporary things. They generally reported high confidence in their competences related to learning to learn, literacy, multilingualism, and digitalism; they reported less competences with science and math as well as entrepreneurialism and multilingualism. The teacher trainers reported both positive and negative effects of new learning communities on their lifelong learning competencies, particularly in the areas of digital and multilingualism competences. In response, most participants used self-regulated learning strategies to gain teaching competences, which then influenced their lifelong learning capacities.