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Building Sustainable and Decent Refugee Livelihoods through Adult Education? Interplay between Policies and Realities of Five Refugee Groups
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Preeti Dagar – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
Most of the world's refugees live in Global South countries, where they struggle to find quality education and opportunities for decent livelihoods. This paper explores the underexamined yet highly relevant interlinkage between sustainable livelihoods and adult learning among urban refugees residing in three major cities in India. It speaks to the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Adult Education, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries
Truth and Transformation: The Test of Truth in the Development of New or Revised Ideas, and Related Values and Beliefs
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Rian Roux – Journal of Transformative Education, 2025
Our current cultural climate is marked by a convergence of pressing issues, including the rise of the post-truth situation, which has recently been described as an epistemic crisis (Hoggan-Kloubert & Hoggan, 2023). This conceptual paper outlines why adult education institutions must reclaim the pursuit of truth as undergirded by rationality,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Values, Beliefs, Social Environment
Media and Government Framing of Asylum Seekers and Migrant Workers in Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Stack, Michelle; Wilbur, Amea – International Review of Education, 2021
One understudied area of adult education and lifelong learning is the role of media as educator and policy player. This article describes how the authors used "critical discourse analysis" to examine how asylum seekers, migrant workers and their advocates have challenged long-standing discursive framings of them as benefactors of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrant Workers, Refugees, Mass Media Role
Program Planner Dignity and Negotiation Practices in Collaborative Projects
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Baldwin, Cheryl K.; Magnuson, Doug – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
In this qualitative interpretivist study, we investigated the types of interactions and negotiations that supported or constrained adult education program planners' capacity to act, conceptualized as dignity. Data were drawn from interviews with 14 program planners working in collaborative partnerships in U.S. underperforming urban schools.…
Descriptors: Program Development, Adult Education, Capacity Building, Human Dignity
The Professional Dimension in Spanish Prison Socio-Educational Action
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Martín-Solbes, Victor Manuel; Añaños, Fanny T.; Molina-Fernández, Elvira; Burgos-Jiménez, Rubén J. – Education Sciences, 2021
Background: The article addresses the reality of prison professionals in ordinary and open prison conditions, which includes the perceptions of women prisoners, due to their low institutional presence that limits their reintegration, from a socio-educational perspective. The aim is to analyse psycho-emotional, educational, and work-related…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Females, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education
Literacy, Human Rights, and Democracy.
Rivero, Jose H. – International Understanding at School, 1989
Notes 1990 is UNESCO's International Literacy Year. Presents alternative ways of overcoming illiteracy in Latin America. Suggests major contributing factors concern the region's weak economy. Argues the state's role is decisive in transferring resources to marginal sectors. Views literacy as a basic human right and that it allows for democratic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Democratic Values, Developing Nations