"Doing the Wrong Thing Righter"

Autor/in	Hooper, Richard
Titel	"Doing the Wrong Thing Righter"
Quelle	In: Adults Learning, 18 (2007) 7, S.20-22 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0955-2308
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Vocational Education; Community Development; Adult Learning; Local Government; Role of Education; Educational Finance; Nongovernmental Organizations; Education Work Relationship; Politics of Education; United Kingdom (Great Britain) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Community; Development; Entwicklung; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Gemeindeverwaltung; Bildungsauftrag; Bildungsfonds; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	In a misplaced rush for economic prosperity through vocational training, adults are in danger of elbowing aside their potential as learning and civic communities. In this article, the author argues that a skills strategy must be integrated within a broader learning-for-life vision which ranges over every aspect of learning in health, in social care, in community development, in culture. The one cannot be subordinated to the other. To achieve this at local level, what better than to place a statutory duty to promote and secure adequacy in adult learning on the single organisation available which has the democratic locus and capacity to do so: local government. However, if this is to be achieved there will have to be either a significant review and relaxation of the current adult learning funding regime or a crude increase in the amount of money available to "social purpose" community-driven education. Above all, a greater and more direct involvement of local government in shaping and influencing adult learning might restore the democratic link which has been markedly missing from the past 13 years of "making the wrong thing righter." (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10