Adults Learning
Adults Learning is essential reading for adult education practitioners and policy makers, offering an informed mix of news, analysis, expert commentary and feature writing, dedicated to adult learning. Published 10 times a year, each issue is filled with in-depth and topical articles written by leading practitioners and experts in the field.
Contents of current issue (June 2009):
News
Commentary: We need an all-age learning contract
The Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning is proposing a new model of the education lifecourse - it should help us get to grips with how investment in learning at each life stage helps those in other stages, writes Tom Schuller.
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Raising our sights
Making serious headway on the skills and jobs agenda during the current recession will be exceedingly difficult. But unless we take immediate and concerted action we will fall further behind our international competitors, argues Chris Humphries.
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Changing the way we work
Learning should not be seen as something separate from work. By reorganising working practice to recognise that all work involves and generates learning we not only improve opportunities to learn, we prepare the ground for economic recovery, write Alan Felstead, Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin.
Investment in skills must be long term
In the recession of the 1980s, government schemes to improve people’s skills often provoked hostility and resentment among those who took part in them. This time around, can we avoid creating a generation of people condemned to a life of poverty and depression, asks John Field.
Power in a union
The work unions do in providing and supporting learning for their members rarely makes the news headlines, but it will be essential if we are to engage those workers who most need to acquire new and better skills to cope in the economic downturn, writes Pam Johnson.
How should we fund adult learning?
A funding system that trusted individuals and employers to make decisions about their own learning needs would not only be fairer – it would ensure we get better value for the money we spend on learning, says Stephen McNair.
Taking learning to the community
These are tough times for adult and community learning, with many providers struggling to sustain a broad curriculum offer that includes a wide-ranging adult learning programme. South Devon College was determined to keep its flourishing adult offer alive but realised that, with funding increasingly scarce, it had to find innovative ways of ensuring that the wider benefits of learning are available for all. Paul Stanistreet reports.
More than bricks and mortar
The 1875 Group was formed by volunteers in 2007 to restore and reinterpret a back-to-back house at Bradford Industrial Museum. The project has provided the museum with a wealth of new research material, objects for display and written and audio information for visitors, as well as inspiring a passionate interest among the volunteers. Paul Stanistreet found out what motivates a remarkable group of learners.
In their shoes
At the end of March adult educator Jane Mace travelled to Palestine to take part in a church programme to monitor human rights abuses and support peace efforts in the region. Nearing the end of her three-month stay, she reflects on the role adult learning can play in increasing understanding and promoting justice.
Learning from the future
Even before the revelations about MPs’ expenses there was widespread concern about a democratic deficit. Whatever the future holds for our society, adult education will have a key role in sustaining both self and citizenship, writes Kate Watters.
Letters
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