The following report is the outcome of a study commissioned by the UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg, Germany, within the framework of its ‘International Survey on Adult Education for Indigenous Peoples’, carried out in 15 countries worldwide. In Bolivia’s case, the study was headed by a team from the Master’s Programme in Intercultural Bilingual Education (Maestría en Educación Intercultural Bilingüe), which is part of the Training Programme in Intercultural Bilingual Education for the Andean Countries (Programa de Formación en Educación Intercultural Bilingüe para los Países...
February 2000
February 2000
Los Pueblos indígenas y la educación de adultos en Guatemala (Indigenous Peoples and Adult Education in Guatemala)
This study aims to systematize the results of the International Survey on Adult Education for Indigenous Peoples obtained in Guatemala in 1999 by the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation’s Indigenous Education Institute. This initiative was launched within the framework of the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA), which took place in Hamburg, Germany, in July 1997. During this conferences, which was also attended by representatives from indigenous...
Year of publication:
2000
Available from UIL's Library in Spanish.
December 1999
CONFINTEA crystallized an idea into an event, and made of an event an agreement between countries, principally by governments wishing to recognize and give impetus to the shifts taking place in the world of adult learning. However, the idea of adult learning, as it is now understood, is so broad and so all encompassing that to try to follow the whole field is to miss the essentials. How then to monitor the follow-up to CONFINTEA in its entirety when the field is so vast?
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Year of publication:
1999
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November 1999
The Fifth International Conference on Adult Learning, held in Hamburg, Germany in July 1997, emphasized that “efforts need to be made to ensure greater access to and participation in the means of communication for all cultures and social groups.” This online forum was organized to respond to this need. It was a concrete way to contribute to policy development on accessibility issues related to the use of technologies in adult learning. A collection of practical and tangible recommendations and proposals were developed based on different national and regional contexts, and...
Year of publication:
1999
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November 1999
This year, the UNESCO Institute for Education will, once more, have developed many research programmes, welcomed trainees, organized seminars, published numerous books, consulted and listened to educational policy-makers, and much, much more, not forgetting all of the follow-up to the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education. All these activities are described in this new annual report.
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Year of publication:
1999
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October 1999
Following a decision of the General Conference of UNESCO (26 C/5 01334), the UNESCO Institute for Education was asked to produce, in cooperation with Member-States as well as with other cooperation agencies, an analysis of world trends in educational research on adult education. The objective was to strengthen the impact of educational research on the development of adult education and adult basic education, and to assess the present and possible contribution of universities and other research centres to such development.
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Year of publication:
1999
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May 1999
Following CONFINTEA a meeting was held at the UNESCO institute for Education bringing experts on adult learning and work to discuss and debate issues on work, education and the future, and to come to a joint statement. It was also at this meeting that proposals were made for UIE’s round table on adult learning and the future of work. The aim of this round table was to contribute to the debate on vocational and technical education in the context of lifelong learning.
The present UIE working paper reports on the results of this round table which addressed several issues such as...
Year of publication:
1999
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March 1999
The world has undergone major transformations in the course of the century now coming to a close, which have served to change humankind’s global environment, physically, socially, environmentally, politically and culturally, in spite of a number of negative forces at play. Notwithstanding the accompanying questions and doubts, the scientific research and discoveries that have gone hand in hand with these transformations are growing in significance and are indisputably benefiting humanity as a whole. Unfortunately, however, a large minority of the world’s population remains unable to...
Year of publication:
1999
Available from UIL's Library in French.
December 1998
December 1998
The following report is about an international expert meeting which was jointly organized by the Department of Adult and Continuing Education & Extension (DACEE) for the University of Mumbai, India, the UNESCO institute for Education (UIE) and the International Congress of University Adult Education (ICUAE). It took place in Mumbai on April 20-24, 1998, and consisted of two separate but complementary events: a) a one-day international seminar on Global Trends in Adult Learning, and b) a three-day preparatory meeting for the forthcoming World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE), to...
Year of publication:
1998
Available from UIL's Library in English.