This one-day participative event is presented by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Warwick. The aim is to generate discussion and debate on the key and important issue of community engagement and community-based adult education from a comparative perspective by drawing on theory and practice from Scotland, Canada and England.
 

This seminar in the Urban Studies series for Spring 2013 is being offered by CRADALL Affiliate, Andy Furlong (Professor, School of Education, University of Glasgow)

The seminar reports the findings of a recent research study aspiring  to unveil and illuminate some of the adult learning processes as well as the ‘fine-grained’ processes that are at work during the organization and delivery of the courses at the Open University, with the aim to underline the factors influencing these processes.  It has as its main units of analysis adult learners’ and their educators’ experiences and perceptions of adult learning in a distance education context and rests profoundly on a research framework that views certain programme elements as being vital in unveiling t

Just published at the THEMP site, this book explores the theoretical underpinning of the Tertiary Higher Education for People in Mid-Life project, part-funded by the European Commission within the KA1 strand of the Lifelong Learning Programme.