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PIMA Bulletin 22

Posted February 11, 2019 - 10:57

The PIMA Bulletin Number 22 for January 2019 can now be read in full below.

The crisis in Western democracy was an early attempt in PASCAL via the OTB (thinking outside the box) Observatory website facility, to promote discussion of the way that assaults on democracy (not only ‘western’) might be confronted. What is the response that lifelong learning (LLL) and its encompassing moral and political values might have to offer in reviving active democratic practice?

PIMA Bulletin 21

Posted December 17, 2018 - 12:50

The PIMA Bulletin Number 21 for December 2018 can now be read in full below.

PIMA Bulletin 20

Posted November 6, 2018 - 10:43

The PIMA Bulletin Number 20 for October 2018 can now be read in full below.

What chances for democracy? Bad remembering...

Posted May 10, 2018 - 12:19 by Chris Brooks

Few remember the immense brutality and the inhumanity of the systems which are part of our recent history. Few remember the terror and mass murder of the Stalin years. But President Vladimir Putin, massively reelected in Russia, has similar tactics and similar objectives to those of Joseph Stalin.

The curious incident of the disappearance of the policy discourse of adult education in England: Thoughts from a foreigner

Posted May 10, 2018 - 12:14 by Budd Hall

Source: PIMA Bulletin 17, April 2018

Darlene Clover and I are returning to London on the train from Wolverhampton where we had the pleasure of attending a conference organised by the irresistible Sir Alan Tuckett on the subject of The Learning Age 20 Years on. The Learning Age: A Renaissance for a New Britain (1997) was a green paper brought out by New Labour under the political leadership of David (Lord) Blunkett, then Secretary of State for Education and Employment.

Looking forward to a few role for adult educators

Posted May 10, 2018 - 12:11 by Martin Yarnit

Source: PIMA Bulletin 17, April 2018

Thirty years ago, I wrote an article bemoaning the state of adult and community learning (ACL) in the UK and calling for a Year of Adult Learning to raise its profile and a campaign for a new deal from government. The outcome was the creation of Adult Learners Week, a more modest but practicable initiative than the one I had envisaged, and eventually, a decade later, a commitment by a new government to a Learning Age.

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