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dc.contributor.authorTuckett, Alan
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-31T13:55:59Z
dc.date.available2018-08-31T13:55:59Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-30
dc.identifier.issn1477-9714
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1477971418796650
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/621671
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the characteristics of learning festivals and Adult Learners’ Weeks and their use as tools of advocacy in seeking policy change on behalf of under-represented groups, and it considers their impact on public policy affecting adult learners. In addition, it reflects on the role of the week in celebrating a culture of adult learning. The paper includes analysis of the relationship between the development of festivals and policy change affecting adult learners through Adult Learners’ Weeks in the United Kingdom after 1992, exploring, in particular, the role of the Week in affecting policy, participation, and inter-communal understanding arising from increased migration. The paper explores the spread of learning festivals and the sequence of Presidency conferences in the European Union in the years leading up to the Lisbon Memorandum in 2000; the role of festivals in the aftermath of war in the Balkans; and the role of the World Social Forum as an antidote to neo-liberal orthodoxies in international policy discussions. It also considers the success and failure of learning weeks as a tool of advocacy and policy change.
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.relation.urlhttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1477971418796650
dc.subjectadult education
dc.subjectadvocacy
dc.subjectlearning festivals
dc.subjectmotivation
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectpolicy change
dc.subjectlearner voice
dc.titleAdult education for a change: Advocacy, learning festivals, migration, and the pursuit of equity and social justice
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Adult and Continuing Education
dc.date.accepted2018-07-27
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhampton
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW310818AT
rioxxterms.versionAO
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-08-30
dc.source.volume2018
dc.source.beginpage1
dc.source.endpage19
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-31T13:55:59Z


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