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BALID symposium at BAICE conference, September 2018, University of York

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The British Association for Literacy in Development invites you to submit a 150-word abstract for the proposed symposium at the September 2018 BAICE conference at the University of York. Our suggested title is 'Adult Literacy and Development: Structural Problems and Innovative Responses’.

Although adult education and lifelong learning are included in the SDGs and have an important contribution to make to sustainable development, education is still often understood as primarily a matter of formal education in schools, colleges and universities.

Thoughts on a New Year: Budd Hall & Rajesh Tandon, UNESCO Chair in CBR

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The arc of the moral universe in long, but it bends towards justice
Martin Luther King

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water
Rabindranath Tagore

To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future
Arundhati Roy

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