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Thompson, Jane – Adults Learning, 2005
The most serious long-term problem facing the world at the moment is not terrorism but the desperate level of poverty and inequality endured by those living in the Global South--due in part to environmental problems created by the unsustainable abuse of natural resources. By the late 1990s there was a growing consensus that the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Poverty, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Equal Education
Thompson, Jane – Adults Learning, 2005
For those working in adult learning, supporting active citizenship has become one of those principles-turned-platitudes they like to recite, but they need to search hard in the small print of recent White Papers to be sure that the Government cares about the wider purposes of learning beyond functional training for employment. "Active…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Adult Education