Transformative dimensions of lifelong learning: Mezirow, Rorty and COVID-19

S Eschenbacher, T Fleming - International Review of Education, 2020 - Springer
COVID-19 has done significant damage to individuals, families, workers and the economy.
What is not known about the virus is part of the problem, and the knowledge gap drives an …

Lifelong learning in Sustainable Development Goal 4: What does it mean for UNESCO's rights-based approach to adult learning and education?

M Elfert - International Review of Education, 2019 - Springer
This article, which draws on a review of primary and secondary literature, examines the role
of a human rights-based approach to adult learning and education (ALE) in the context of …

Humanism and democracy in comparative education

M Elfert - Comparative Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article argues that contemporary education policies promoted by UNESCO and the
OECD are embracing two distinct post-humanist visions, which I call the 'sustainable futures' …

[PDF][PDF] The long shadow between the vision and the reality: A review of the UNESCO report “Reimagining our futures together: A New social contract for education”

M Elfert, P Morris - Quaderni di pedagogia della scuola, 2022 - academia.edu
Treasure Within (aka the Delors report). The report maintains the strong humanistic
orientation long associated with UNESCO's visions of education. Overall we interpret the …

Reimagining adult education and lifelong learning for all: Historical and critical perspectives

A Benavot, CO Hoppers, AS Lockhart… - International Review of …, 2022 - Springer
International Review of Education (2022) 68: 165–194 https://doi. org/10.1007/s11159-022-
09955-9 This special issue of the International Review of Education explores the future of …

Digital education utopia

S Bayne - Learning, Media and Technology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper uses Levitas's (2013)'utopia as method'as a way to approach the histories of
digital education and its utopian possibilities. The themes of emergence, openness and …

Reclaiming a future that has not yet been: The Faure report, UNESCO's humanism and the need for the emancipation of education

G Biesta - International Review of Education, 2022 - Springer
Fifty years after UNESCO's publication of Learning to be: The world of education today and
tomorrow, the author of this article provides an assessment of this seminal report, commonly …

Adult basic education under WIOA title II implementation: An integrative literature review

A Cherewka, E Prins - Adult Education Quarterly, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Adult basic education (ABE) scholars, practitioners, and policymakers have long debated
the purpose and outcomes of federal ABE policy. Although the current policy, the Workforce …

[图书][B] Global Governance of Education

M Elfert, C Ydesen - 2023 - Springer
This book examines the role of three international organizations (IOs), 1 created after World
War II as part of a new multilateral world order, in promoting and shaping education as a …

From 'the conscience of humanity'to the conscious human brain: UNESCO's embrace of social-emotional learning as a flag of convenience

A Bryan - Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article analyses UNESCO's advocacy of social-emotional learning (SEL) as key to
achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—particularly SDG target 4.7. It …