Adult Education: A Key Issue - Voices Rising
Maren Elfert Public Relations/Programme Specialist UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) m.elfert@unesco.org
"Adult education denotes the entire body of ongoing learning processes, formal or otherwise, whereby people regarded as adults by the society to which they belong develop their abilities, enrich their knowledge, and improve their technical or professional qualifications or turn them in a new direction to meet their own needs and those of their society. Adult learning encompasses both formal and continuing education, non‐formal learning and the spectrum of informal and incidental learning available in a multicultural learning society." (From the Hamburg Declaration, CONFINTEA V, 1997)
The previous CONFINTEA also declared that the objectives of youth and adult education, viewed as a lifelong process, are to develop the autonomy and the sense of responsibility of people and communities, to reinforce the capacity to deal with economic, cultural and social changes, and to promote coexistence, tolerance and the informed nd creative participation of citizens in their communities. Adult education is a powerful concept for fostering ecologically sustainable development, for promoting democracy, justice, gender equity, and scientific, social and economic development, and for building a world in which violent conflict is replaced by dialogue and a culture of peace based on justice.
See Bulletin N01 UIL/UNESCO http://www.icae2.org/?q=es/node/513
L’Éducation des adultes : une question‐clé http://www.icae2.org/?q=es/node/496
Educação de Adultos: uma questão‐chave http://www.icae2.org/?q=es/node/514
La Educación
"Adult education denotes the entire body of ongoing learning processes, formal or otherwise, whereby people regarded as adults by the society to which they belong develop their abilities, enrich their knowledge, and improve their technical or professional qualifications or turn them in a new direction to meet their own needs and those of their society. Adult learning encompasses both formal and continuing education, non‐formal learning and the spectrum of informal and incidental learning available in a multicultural learning society." (From the Hamburg Declaration, CONFINTEA V, 1997)
The previous CONFINTEA also declared that the objectives of youth and adult education, viewed as a lifelong process, are to develop the autonomy and the sense of responsibility of people and communities, to reinforce the capacity to deal with economic, cultural and social changes, and to promote coexistence, tolerance and the informed nd creative participation of citizens in their communities. Adult education is a powerful concept for fostering ecologically sustainable development, for promoting democracy, justice, gender equity, and scientific, social and economic development, and for building a world in which violent conflict is replaced by dialogue and a culture of peace based on justice.
See Bulletin N01 UIL/UNESCO http://www.icae2.org/?q=es/node/513
L’Éducation des adultes : une question‐clé http://www.icae2.org/?q=es/node/496
Educação de Adultos: uma questão‐chave http://www.icae2.org/?q=es/node/514
La Educación
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