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Gary Fraser – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2025
Professionalism in the context of public sector professions is a changing concept, which is subject to different interpretations. The sociologist Julia Evetts has developed two models, occupational and organisational professionalism, which are useful conceptual tools which help us to understand from a wider theoretical perspective the changing…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Educational History, Governance, Professional Associations
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Belete, Sonja; Duke, Chris; Hinzen, Heribert; Owusu-Boampong, Angela; Khau, Huu Phuoc – International Review of Education, 2022
Institutionalised forms of adult learning and education (ALE) such as community learning centres (CLCs) and related models are found in most parts of the world. These are spaces offering opportunities for literacy and skills training, health and citizenship, general, liberal and vocational education, in line with fuller recognition of the meaning…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Community Programs, Lifelong Learning
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Le, Ai Tam Pham – International Review of Education, 2018
Community learning centres (CLCs) have been widely established in the Asia-Pacific region as locally managed institutions that offer non-formal educational opportunities and community development activities. Myanmar officially has more than 3,000 centres, which is one of the highest numbers in the region. This article examines the operation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education, Community Programs, Community Development
Thomson, Alastair – Adults Learning, 2011
Political leaders like to put forward guiding ideas or themes which pull their individual decisions into a broader narrative. For John Major it was Back to Basics, for Tony Blair it was the Third Way and for David Cameron it is the Big Society. While Mr. Blair relied on Lord Giddens to add intellectual weight to his idea, Mr. Cameron's legacy idea…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Politics of Education
Hanemann, Ulrike, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
This compilation offers global examples of innovative and promising literacy and numeracy programmes that link the teaching and learning of literacy to sustainable development challenges such as health, social equality, economic empowerment and environmental sustainability. This publication is a timely contribution to the 2030 Agenda for…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Literacy, Numeracy, Lifelong Learning
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Flage, Lynette; Vettern, Rachelle; Schmidt, Mark; Eighmy, Myron – Journal of Extension, 2010
Communities benefit from meaningful involvement by individuals of all ages, but adults don't always perceive youth as legitimate, crucial contributors to community decision-making processes. The purpose of the study reported here was to determine if adults who participated with youth in the Horizons program changed their attitudes, opinions, and…
Descriptors: Opinions, Leadership Training, Behavior Change, Attitude Change
Woodhouse, Janice Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of how communities can effect change in policy and practice to support greater ecological and cultural sustainability. The general purpose of this research is to examine selected local initiatives for ecological and cultural sustainability to better understand the role of adult education in those efforts.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Local Issues
Slevin, Amanda – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2009
The familiar advertising slogan, "Up here it's different," used to attract visitors to the rugged beauty of County Donegal, was correct in highlighting that things are different in Donegal, although not for the reasons one might connect with tourism. For many, Donegal evokes nostalgic images of old, rural Ireland such as close community…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Education, School Community Relationship, Foreign Countries
Nasiruddin, Md. – Online Submission, 2013
Each night, around 20,000 people--both adults and children--make the streets of Dhaka (the capital city of Bangladesh) their home. Living amongst the noise, rubbish, and traffic, thousands of families walk down the streets of Dhaka, looking for a safe place to rest for just a few hours each night. Trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Homeless People, Emergency Shelters
Noguchi, Fumiko – Online Submission, 2010
Since its establishment in 2003, the Japan Council on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD-J) has paid close attention to informal learning processes in community-based efforts to promote local sustainable development. ESD-J carried out two projects to collect information on and visualise community-based ESD practice: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Informal Education, Community Programs
Hansen, Lexine Tallis – ProQuest LLC, 2010
International community development is a fertile area of research for environmental education scholars and practitioners. Although the community development field is well established, there is relatively little focus on education and learning in community development literature, especially in developing country settings. Particularly,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Global Approach, Scholarship
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Golding, Barry; Kimberley, Helen; Foley, Annette; Brown, Mike – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2008
This article reviews research into the genesis and spread of both neighbourhood houses and learning centres in Victoria and community-based men's sheds in Australia to identify some similarities and differences. Our article asks questions about the gendered communities of practice that underpin houses for women on the one hand, and sheds for men…
Descriptors: Females, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
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McLachlan, Kathryn; Arden, Catherine H. – Rural Society, 2009
Rural communities such as Stanthorpe on Queensland's Southern Downs, in Australia, are familiar with turbulent environmental, social, technological and economic change and the adversity that frequently accompanies such changes. The capacity of individuals and communities to bounce back from adversity is referred to as resilience. Participation in…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Community Development, Action Research, Lifelong Learning
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Huang, Yan; Boshier, Roger – Convergence, 2008
In March 2006, Premier Wen Jiabao acknowledged that the situation in the Chinese countryside is desperate and claimed new resources would be devoted to healthcare and education. This announcement should have pleased architects of the Chinese "learning initiative" who are building learning cities and villages. The authors describe why…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Human Capital
Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, 2007
Because of the important role played by community learning providers, Premier Ed Stelmach asked Canadian Minister of Advanced Education and Technology to increase support for community education and literacy programs. Community Adult Learning Councils and other community providers of adult literacy and family literacy programming are primarily…
Descriptors: Community Education, Adult Learning, Family Literacy, Adult Literacy
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