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Not just the economy
The public value of adult learning
Edited by Colin Flint and Chris Hughes
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A million adults have been lost from state-funded educational provision since 2005. Government strategies have focused on the 16-19 age cohort, on basic skills for adults and on work-related skills. The infrastructure of adult learning, for many years a pillar of British education and widely admired throughout of the world, is being lost.
The book calls for urgent re-appraisal and better understanding of the public value of adult learning. Its contributors believe that creating and sustaining cultural value are as important as education for access to employment and workforce development. They campaign for continued educational opportunity for those who have been failed by our educational systems. The essays are wide-ranging, stimulating, and provocative. They make a convincing argument for a well-educated citizenry, empowered through learning to challenge bigotry, sophistry and injustice. We need to persuade policy-makers that lifelong learning is not windy rhetoric; it is a prerequisite to social cohesion.
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Contents
| Foreword | David Sherlock (formerly Chief Inspector, Adult Learning Inspectorate) |
| Chapter 1 | Adult learning and the global economy Chris Humphries (Director General, City and Guilds of London Institute) |
| Chapter 2 | The wider benefits of learning Leon Feinstein (Director, Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, Institute of Education, London University) |
| Chapter 3 | Adult literacy learning, participative democracy and
public collective good Ursula Howard (Director, National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, Institute of Education, London University) |
| Chapter 4 | The right to make the wrong choices: liberty, choice and
learning Carole Stott and Finbar Lillis (Directors, Credit Works) |
| Chapter 5 | Demonstrating public value John Stone (Chief Executive Officer, Learning and Skills Network) |
| Chapter 6 | Public value: international insights Tom Schuller (Head, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, OECD) |
| Chapter 7 | Adult learning and the local authorities Richard Hooper (Manager, Adult and Continuing Education Services, Lancashire County Council) |
| Chapter 8 | Public value and leadership Caroline Mager (Director for Strategic Policy, Centre for Excellence in Leadership) |
| Chapter 9 | Public value and Leitch Duncan O'Leary (Researcher, DEMOS) |
| Chapter 10 | Learner perspectives Richard Bolsin (General Secretary, Workers’ Educational Association) |
| Chapter 11 | Adult learning and social justice Nick Pearce (Director, Institute for Public Policy Research), Simon Beer and Jenny Williams (Regional Development Officers, NIACE) |
| Conclusion | Colin Flint and Chris Hughes |
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