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Richi Simon – Higher Education for the Future, 2024
Field action projects are a distinguishing feature in social work education and practice and can serve as a live lab for social work students. Many renowned social work educational institutions began with the field action projects and developed them to a significant level. The state of Madhya Pradesh, India has several problems, and field action…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Counselor Training, Field Studies
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2020
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) prepares the "Global Report on Adult Learning and Education" ("GRALE") every three years in order to strengthen understanding of 'where we stand' as a global community, and to address the growing need for youth and adult education. The present report draws on data from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Adult Learning, Adult Education
McCloskey, Stephen – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
This book argues that the international development sector is in crisis which can be mostly sourced to its side-stepping the dominant development question of our age, the neoliberal growth paradigm. It argues that this crisis can be addressed, at least in part, by the sector's re-engagement with the radical development education process that it…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Capacity Building, Educational Development
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Sahlberg, Pasi; Oldroyd, David – European Journal of Education, 2010
Accelerating threats to a sustainable relationship between economic growth and the capacity of the global social-ecological system to support it require that the implications of competitiveness be reassessed. Today, the capacities that underlie economic competitiveness must also be brought to bear on policy and pedagogy to prepare the coming…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Sustainable Development, Teaching Methods, Competition
Derrick, Jay, Ed.; Howard, Ursula, Ed.; Field, John, Ed.; Lavender, Peter, Ed.; Meyer, Sue, Ed.; von Rein, Ekkehard Nuissl, Ed.; Schuller, Tom, Ed. – Institute of Education - London, 2010
Remaking Adult Learning provides an exciting and innovative addition to the literature on adult learning. Charting challenges and successes in the sector, it illustrates how taking part in well-thought-out programmes can have a positive and sometimes life-saving impact on people's lives. While grounded in adult learning practice, the book draws…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Khan, Shirley Ali – 1999
This guide, which builds on the Further Education Development Agency's environmental, regional, and economic development initiatives, is intended to help further education (FE) colleges throughout the United Kingdom respond to the sustainable development challenges posed by the International Organization for Standardization's quality environmental…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Economic Development, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Thompson, Jane – 2002
This guide offers insight, advice, examples, and resources aimed at community education practitioners in the United Kingdom who want to establish sustainable community education and neighborhood renewal programs promoting active citizenship and social change. The following topics are discussed: (1) neighborhoods in crisis; (2) proposed government…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Check Lists