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Moving, Teaching, Inspiring: The Power of Place and Past in the Future of Adult Learning

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In the second decade of the 21st century, British adult education is characterised by diversity, insecurity and informality. With provision mainly self-funded, organisations are re-thinking their missions, target audiences and modes of approach – while trying to hold on to core values.

NEW ESREA BOOK. Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities The Local/Global Context

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FREELY AVAILABLE AS AN OPEN ACCESS BOOK! Featured below and also available through Sense Publishers.

Can adult education and learning be understood without reference to community and people’s daily lives? The response to be found in the chapters of this volume say emphatically no, they cannot. Adult learning can be best understood if we look at the social life of people in communities, and this book is an attempt to recover this view.

Young Adults transitions from education to work - new ARC project

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One of the speakers at the Engaging Young People in Lifelong Learning conference previously posted is Professor Johanna Wyn of the University of Melbourne. We are very pleased to report that Professor Wyn has been awarded an Australian Research Council Grant on Young Adults transitions from education to work. The project which will be undertaken over a three year period is led by University of Melbourne.

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