A new social purpose agenda in adult education
Rick Flowers pointed me in the direction of this conference information. His query was "If you or we convened a similar sort of seminar in Australia, would there be much interest?"
The conference aims to explore how radical political education might be reshaped, maybe kick started. This would be followed with the publication of a policy discussion document to "promote political education and active citizenship."
The following quote is a reminder of the pressures of adult educators in an environment that seems to be dishing up more opression to the opressed.
"the notion of radical social purpose education is drowned out by the narrowing orthodoxy of skills and employability"
posted by NSWTOx @ 3:46 pm
1 Comments:
At 2:37 pm,
Anonymous said…
Hi Just picking up on the mention of "active citizenship": I have been one of the unit writers for the new Outreach units. My unit is about Active Citizenship. I understand that when the units are reviewed in the future, those that have not been used may be axed.
Make sure you get to know the new units as they come on line and try them out so that we are able to keep our flexibility in Outreach.
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