Adult education and learning in precarious age : the Hamburg declaration revisited / Tom Nesbit, Michael Welton, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ace Books Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Nesbit, Tom.

Welton, Michael.

Series:

New directions for adult and continuing education ; no. 138.

New Directions for Adult and continuing Education ; Number 138

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adult education.

Adult learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (114 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

UNESCO's 1997 CONFINTEA V conference in Hamburg has been described as the high-water mark of international adult education policy-making. It produced one of the most utopian statements about adult education and learning of the past 25 years: the Hamburg Declaration on Adult Learning and Agenda for the Future.Adult education was declared key to the twenty-first century in order to build "a world in which violent conflict is replaced by dialogue, a culture of peace based on justice . . . and the creation of a learning society committed to social justice and general well-being." Ho

Contents:

Adult Education and Learning in a Precarious Age: The Hamburg Declaration Revisited; Copyright; Contents; Editors' Notes; References; 1. Subjects to Citizens: Adult Learning and the Challenges of Democracy in the Twenty-First Century; Arab Spring; The Occupy Movement; Conclusion; References; 2. Literacy and UNESCO: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives*; Literacy and UNESCO, 1946-2000; Literacy and UNESCO, 2000-2010; UNESCO's Future in Literacy; References; 3. Adult Education of Women for Social Transformation: Reviving the Promise, Continuing the Struggle; CONFINTEA's Multiple Promises

The Empirical Evidence on Government ActionA Predictable Path and Possibilities for Escaping It; Conclusions; References; 4. From the Quixotic to the Pragmatic: The Hamburg Declaration, Adult Education, and Work; Globalization and Changing Work Relationships; Learning Regions; Collaboration, Creativity, and Productivity; Self-Direction, E-Learning, and Technology; Career Pathways; References; 5. Adult Learning, Education, and the Environment; From the "Human" Environment to Climate Change; Environmental Education; The Forward March of Hamburg and the Setback at Belém

Plus Ça Change . . . : Rio+20 and BeyondEducative Activism; The "New Education"-Environment, Health, and Population; Ways Forward; References; 6. Adult Learning and the Promise of New Technologies; The Digital Age and (In)equality of Participation; Different Dimensions of the Digital Divide; Impact of New Technologies on Teaching and Learning; Strengths and Opportunities of e-Learning for Adults; Widening Access to Educational Resources; Copyright Issues of Online Learning; Weaknesses and Threats of Omnipresent Digital Technologies; Conclusions; References

7. The Gap Between Aspiration and PracticeReferences; 8. The Economics of Adult Education; Investment in AE; Overview of Funding Mechanisms; Key Problems and Constraints; Ways Forward; References; 9. Whither Utopia?; Adult Education's Political Dimensions; Organizational Roles in Policy Formation; Positive Changes; What Next?; References; Index

Notes:

"Summer 2013."

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 28, 2013).

ISBN:

1-118-70904-7

1-118-70888-1

OCLC:

868940005