The Adult Learning Dimensions to The Sustainable Development Goals

This event was originally publicised for 25 May, but has been rescheduled to 3 June

Centre for International Education Research

Presented by Professor Alan Rogers, Honorary Professor, School of Education, University of Nottingham

This seminar will explore why adult learning was marginalised in Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals and asks whether they will again be marginalised under the SDGs. It is well known that EFA became almost exclusively Education for All Children, and the implementation of the MDGs also rarely involved adult education. In the discussions leading up to the formulation of SDG 4 (Education) adults barely featured, and current discussions of the implementation of SDG 4 also tend to omit adults. But adult learning features in many of the other SDGs, eg health, gender, environment etc. What are the implications of this divide? And how can we ensure that adult learning appears fully in both SDG 4 and the other targets? This seminar is based on a very recent international meeting held in UK to debate these issues.  

View the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Biography

Professor Alan Rogers is a Visiting Professor in The University of Nottingham; an experienced adult educator, he has worked in both the UK and developing countries, with particular reference to the training of teachers of adults. His book Teaching Adults (Open University Press) has been through four editions, and he has published very extensively on adult learning and literacy in development.

Refreshments will be available.