Adult Learners' Week
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History
Adult Learners' Week is an international festival of adult learning. It is a UNESCO initiative that was first celebrated in the United States in the late ’80s, where there was a move to create a broad celebration of adult learning at the American Association for the Advancement of Education (AAAE).
In 1990, governments met in Jomtien for the Education for All World conference[1]. The aim of this conference was to set goals for universal access to and completion of primary education and to reduce the adult illiteracy rate to one half its 1990 level by 2000.
Adult Learners' Week in the UK
In the United Kingdom, the National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education first coordinated Adult Learners’ Week in 1992.
Today Adult Learners’ Week is the UK’s largest festival of learning, and the overall purpose of the initiative is to raise demand for learning and skills. It highlights the benefits of learning of all kinds, learning for work, informal learning as well as learning for personal development. 14 to 20 May 2011 marked the twentieth Adult Learners’ Week in England.
The initiative is supported by the European Social Fund, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Next Step, BBC, Open University and Pearson PLC.
Adult Learners' Week in Australia
Adult Learners' Week is supported in Australia by the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training and coordinated by Adult Learning Australia. Adult Learners' Week runs from 1–8 September and incorporates International Literacy Day, which is celebrated annually on September 8. ‘[T]he origins of Adult Learners’ Week in Australia can be directly traced to the UK experience’[2]
External links
- ^ "Outcomes on education". United Nations.
- ^ Morris (2002). "Adult Learners' Week: The Australian experience". Adult Education and Development. 58: 201–208.
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