Ecological Education in Everyday Life is the last publication in the ALPHA series, produced since 1990 at the UNESCO Institute for Education. In this volume, we continue to be interested in what we call non-formal basic education, which includes a range of literacy practices in vernacular cultures, knowledge transmission practices in communities, and education practices that prove useful to the needs of life. What is new is the ecological component, the strategic objective of lifelong education directed towards sustainable living.

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This publication contains the major papers presented during the International Conference on Lifelong Learning: Global Perspectives in Education held in Beijing in July 2001. Almost 200 participants from government agencies, academic institutions, research organizations, multilateral agencies and non-governmental organizations from 40 countries shared their policies and practices on lifelong learning in their respective contexts.

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This reference guide details some of the institutions and delivery modes in the administration and coordination of adult learning policies and programmes. It represents a starting point for discussion on best practics future directions, challenges and achievements in adult learning in the Asian context.

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This publication aims to provide a gender perspective on HIV-preventative education. It reviews existing educational stategies and IEC materials from this perspective discussing how to develop empowering educational strategies and gender-senstivie IEC materials.

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The UNESCO Institute for Education, with its operational base in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, in Germany, and in Europe, has an important role as a UNESCO educational institution: the excellent academic and political relationship between the Institute and all world regions are a treasure “hidden” at the Albert Ballin house in the Feldbrunnenstraße. This potential may well bear fruit in the coming years, in our own enlightened self-interest, both for applied educational research in Germany and for the further development of programmes in Europe and throughout the world.

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As UNESCO’s international reference centre for lifelong learning, UIE, over its thirty years of experience in this field, has initiated several research activities in this area and collaborated with a number of institutions and researchers all over the world. Building on these experiences in elucidating a conceptual framework of lifelong learning, the Institute has been reviewing, at the onset of the new millennium, existing lifelong learning perspectives as well as elaboration on new perspectives. The Institute has come to the conclusion that it can contribute to the emergence of a...

THE MOST POPULATED REGION in the world, Asia is also the most diverse. Highly industrialized nations exist side by side predominantly rural countries. There are large income gaps among the countries as well within these nations. There are big cities at the same time that there are rural populations. In China for example, 900 million out of the 1.2 billion people live in rural areas. Asians practice different faiths from Islam, Buddhism, Christianity to Hinduism. They belong to hundreds of ethnic communities and speak different languages. The range of colonizers from the Americans, Dutch,...

In many developing countries, literacy has been seen as the key to 'women's development' resulting in a proliferation of women's literacy programmes run by both Governments and Non-Governmental Organisations. Nepal is one such example of a country where literacy programmes have been used extensively as an entry point for involving women in development activities. My own experience of working in this field in Nepal has made me question what impact these literacy programmes have on women's lives: in particular, I have wondered whether there is a strong link between gaining literacy skills...

In spite of the explosion of knowledge and new media, access to adult education documentation and information services remains a dream for many researchers, policy-makers, community groups, businesses, adult learners, educators of adults and others engaged in lifelong learning around the world. Since adult education documentation and information centres lack sufficient financial and human resources, they cannot adequately fulfil their tasks at a time of increasing demand for adult education and training.

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This publication reviews the findings of a study on the financing of adult learning in Europe. It presents the different patterns of public financial support to NGOs in Europe and exposes current policies for supporting financially the partcipation of indviduals in organized adult learning.

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