Themes
The new themes for Adult Learners' Week 2008 are as follows. Please
use them to help shape your events.
Globalisation and the changing world of work:
- work in the 21st Century faces more changes. These changes encourage us to embrace and utilise the skills we have to face the opportunities and challenges globalisation is bringing. Including issues around skills for life, participation, progression, qualifications, modern foreign languages, north/south issues and fair trade;
Environmental Sustainability:
- in recent years 'green issues' and sustainable development have gained increasing publicity but what is understood is yet to be translated into widespread action;
Technological Change:
- For some, the technological revolution has made the world a much smaller place, but there are individuals who lack to skills to engage. Includes issues around ICT, e-learning, media literacy and digital inclusion;
Citizenship and belonging in a diverse society:
- including issues around community cohesion, equality and diversity, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL);
Demographic change:
- including issues around older workers, women returners, migration, learning in later life, family and inter-generational learning;
Poverty reduction:
- including issues around financial education and the engagement of the most isolated and excluded learners;
Changing expectations and perceptions of the Third Sector:
- including issues around volunteering, social movements, community engagement, civic renewal and democratic participation; and
Well-being and happiness:
- including learning for active living, arts, culture and creativity, family and inter-generational living.
For examples of how these can be translated into events the
Planning Guide CD in our Event
in a box -[PDF] contains all you would need to know about organising
and running a successful Adult Learners' Week event. To order use
our order form
- [PDF].