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Celebrating Social Justice Research in Education - Ethics, Religion and Values in Education: 17 March 2021 from 1200-1330 GMT

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Celebrating Social Justice Research in Education - Ethics, Religion and Values in Education

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In this final webinar of the School of Education at the University of Glasgow’s webinar series, Celebrating Social Justice Research in Education, we focus on Ethics, Religion and Values. The research presented will relate to the history of ideas, metatheory, principled scholarship, and theory building applied to contemporary issues of social justice and underpins the School’s approach to innovative and cross-disciplinary pedagogies.

Letter to the Press on Adult Education & Lifelong Learning

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Letter to the Press on Adult Education & Lifelong Learning

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On 8 March 2021 The Daily Telegraph publishes a letter from leading figures in public life, culture and education on the importance of adult and lifelong learning. Signatories include former cabinet ministers and ministers of education, university vice chancellors, leaders of adult and further education, heads of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, most university professors who research adult learning, and leading trade unionists. For reasons of space The Daily Telegraph could not print all the 137 signatories; they are listed below.

UNESCO UIL Publication - Embracing a culture of lifelong learning

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Drawing on the input of 12 distinguished experts from different countries and disciplines, a report just published by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), entitled Embracing a culture of lifelong learning: Contribution to the Futures of Education initiative underlines that creating a global culture of lifelong learning will be key to addressing the challenges humanity is currently facing; ranging from the climate crisis to technological and demographic change, not to mention those posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the inequalities it has exacerbated.

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