About the conference
A world worth living in
Adult learning and education: a key to transformation
14-17 June 2011
Stadionmässan, Malmö, Sweden
The ICAE World Assembly is the main event that brings together adult educators and learners from around the world every four years, and it is a celebration of the importance of adult education for the construction of just and equitable societies.
Objectives:
‐ To provide a collective space to strongly affirm the right to lifelong learning and education for all and to assert the immense value of adult education and learning in enabling citizens to build a world worth living in.
‐ To identify the priorities of lifelong learning and education and to develop proposals for action at a global, regional and local level.
Other events
The ICAE World Assembly will take place back to back with the EAEA General Assembly on the 14th of June and the ICAE General Assembly on the 17th of June. The national conference of the Swedish National Council of Adult Education and the Nordic conference of NVL will be integrated in the programme.
Four main themes of the assembly
ICAE have decided on four main themes for the conference. These themes will be processed through various seminars and workshops during the assembly starting with a virtual seminar on each theme in March 2011
Theme 1. Adult Education as a Right and a Profession – Follow-up to International Agreements as the MDG’s, the EFA goals, and the CONFINTEA Agenda. Convenor Heribert Hinzen
The process of monitoring the outcomes of CONFINTEA has started, now we are looking out for the results of the end of decade assessments on whether we are on track achieving all of the EFA goals. Read more
Theme 2. Lifelong Learning for sustainability in a climate changing world. Convenors Robbie Guevara and Sara Longwe.
As we prepare for the coming ICAE World Assembly in June 2011, there is an organisational imperative to take stock and reflect on our thematic engagement with the field of adult and environmental education for sustainable societies. However, it is important to underscore that we do not have the luxury of time to sit back and reflect, as with each day the need to respond to the impact of climate change on humanity and the planetary systems that support life grows more and more urgent. Read more.
Theme 3. No right to decent work without right to learn. Convenor Paul Belanger
The right to work includes of course freedom of association/collective bargaining, freedom from discrimination, freedom from forced labor, freedom from child labor. However, in today’s context of economic incertitude and of introduction of new technology and environment standards in all areas of formal and informal economy, the full realization of this right could not be achieved without the right to go on learning throughout her or his life. Read more
Theme 4. Northern folkbildning/folkeoplysning and worldwide challenges. Convenor Sturla Bjerkaker.
Scandinavia has a more than 150 years tradition of folkeoplysning/folkbildning. From the start of the folk high school movement in Denmark in the 1840th through the “invention” of the Study Circle in Swedish labour- and temperance movements in the very beginning of the 20th century (1902) you can follow a line up to our days where the development of democracy goes hand in hand with learning and enlightenment.
Because of this connection, many parts of the world have through the years showed interest in “Nordic folkeopysning/folkbildning”. That is why, when ICAE comes to Scandinavia, we will take the opportunity to enlighten this tradition in several seminars and workshops. Read more.
