Professor Ellen Boeren spoke at the 2025 Gyeonggi Global Lifelong Learning Leadership Conference on 23 September 2025.
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Rob Mark, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Adult Education within the School of Education since 2015, and formerly a Masters student of Adult and Continuing education at Glasgow, will shor
Please join us at 12.30 BST on 2nd October, in person or online, for this seminar, presented in collaboration with the University of Glasgow Initial Teacher Education Research Network:
Towards a Pedagogy of Higher Education – On Teaching Beyond the Banality of Constructive Alignment
by guest speakers Gunnlaugur Magnússon, Uppsala University and Johannes Rytzler, Mälardalen University, Sweden
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What’s the purpose of adult education and lifelong learning in the times of crises?
Adult education has traditionally focused on providing equal opportunities of education and learning for all, especially in the Nordic countries. Education has been considered as a public good, valuable in itself, a firm foundation for a democratic society and a source of opportunities for meaningful work. In today’s world we are facing multiple crises such as climate change, digital disruption/AI, disinformation, social polarization and involuntary migration. In these circumstances adult education and adult education research become more important than ever in addressing the aforementioned global challenges. Research based knowledge forms a solid basis for tackling these threats. Adult education and lifelong learning are crucial in educating citizens in facing these multiple challenges.
The Glasgow–Peking Comparative Higher Education Symposium took place on 22–23 July at the Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, led by Dr Anna Wilson, Dr. Leping Mou, and Dr Wenqin Shen. The event was hosted by CRADALL and the School of Education, University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the Graduate School of Education, Peking University, and with additional support from the Glasgow Comparative and International Education Research (GLACIER) Network.
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