Current debates and policy initiatives dominantly look at mitigating COVID-19 impacts on formal schooling, such as the effects of the shift to online learning. Against this backdrop, less attention is given to adult learning despite being widely recognised as having a vital role to play in the post-COVID-19 community strengthening. This webinar will explore the (potential) effects of the pandemic to adult learning and education programmes in contrasting contexts of Afghanistan, the Philippines, Uganda, and the UK. Drawing from these reflections, we hope that a better understanding of how COVID-19 affects ALE programmes will open up discussions on how academia, governments, and civil society actors could better engage with opportunities and challenges in the sector post-pandemic and beyond.
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The British Association for Literacy in Development (BALID) partners with the UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation at the University of East Anglia to deliver another virtual Informal Literacy Discussion (ILD)! ILDs have been running since 2011 and are led by literacy practitioners and academics on a range of current ‘hot topics’ in literacy.
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BALID is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) promoting adult and family literacy and numeracy as a basic human right, in the context of development. We aim to bring together organisations and individuals who believe that sharing experience about learning and literacy can help enrich workers and citizens in both the industrial and the developing world.
https://balid.org.uk
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This UNESCO Chair at the UEA programme aims to develop understanding about how adult learning – particularly for women and young adults - can help address inequalities in the poorest communities of the world. Through investigating how or why adult literacy might facilitate or respond to processes of social transformation, including women’s empowerment, the Chair programme sets out to strengthen the interaction between formal, non-formal and informal learning in research, policy and programmes.
https://www.uea.ac.uk/education/research/areas/literacy-and-development/unesco-chair
Gina is a faculty member from the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines and the RIG Lead of Community Engaged Studies at the UST Research Center for Social Sciences and Education (RCSSED). She is an active member of the Literacy and Development...
Executive Director, Afghan National Association for Adult Education
Mr. Abdul Bashir Khaliqi is the founder and Director of the Afghan National Association for Adult Education (ANAFAE), which was founded in 2005 with support of DVV-International and provides education opportunities for young people out of school,...
Rosie’s working life started back in Africa, where she grew up, in grassroots international development and then in consultancy for government and UN agencies. After a short stint studying and working in America she moved to Norwich with her...
Dr. Willy Ngaka is currently a Senior Lecturer at Makerere University and Coordinator of a UNESCO/UNITWIN Cooperation Programme on “Literacies, Green Skilling and Capacity Development for Sustainable Communities in Africa”. He was the founding...
Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation
Anna Robinson-Pant is Professor of Education at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning and holds the UNESCO Chair for Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation at the University of East Anglia. She has wide experience of...
Ian Cheffy is a Senior Literacy and Education Consultant with SIL, the international NGO specialising in the study and development of the world's unwritten languages. He has worked inliteracy for almost 30 years. Although now based in the UK, he...
Chris Millora is the incoming Chair of BALID and is a Filipino PhD Researcher with the UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia. He holds the...