Advancing the global agenda for human rights, vulnerable populations, and environmental sustainability : adult education as strategic partner

"For over 70 years, the United Nations has worked to advance human conditions globally through its historic agenda for a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world. Through the work of the General Assembly and other programs like the UNESCO World Conferences on Adult Education, the organization...

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Other Authors Alfred, Mary V., 1951- (Editor), Robinson, Petra A. (Editor), Roumell, Elizabeth A. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2021.
SeriesAdult learning in professional, organizational, and community settings.
Subjects
Millennium Development Goals.
Sustainable Development Goals.
Adult education > Social aspects.
Social justice and education.
Education > Environmental aspects.
Economic development > Effect of education on.
Human rights.
Sustainable development.
Education > Adult & Continuing Education.
Adult education, continuous learning.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806603763
DOI10.1108/978-1-64802-697-3
Physical Description1 online resource (xxxv, 349 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Marcie Boucouvalas
  • Preface / Elizabeth Roumell, Mary V. Alfred, & Petra A. Robinson. Introduction--Human Rights, Sustainable Development, and Adult Education: History, Foundation, and Context / Mary V. Alfred
  • Section I. Human rights
  • Chapter 1. The critical literacies advancement model (clam) as AI? tool for curriculum development: Advancing human rights in adult education / Petra A. Robinson and Maja Stojanović
  • Chapter 2. Integral global leadership education for human rights, transformation, and sustainability / Wanda Krause
  • Chapter 3. Promoting antibullyism to advance human rights and social justice for sexual minorities through adult and higher education: An antibullyist approach / Mitsunori Misawa
  • Chapter 4. Migration and human dignity: Rhetoric and practice / Chad Hoggan and Tetyana Kloubert
  • Chapter 5. Nexus of vulnerability of internally displaced persons (idps) in Africa, and socioeconomic development of the black nations / Debora A. Egunyomi and Kofo A. Aderogba
  • Chapter 6. Community-based adult education to promote human rights & health equity in AI? stigmatized community in Canada / Roula Kteily-Hawa and Joseph Roy Gillis
  • Chapter 7. Adults with disabilities need more and better learning opportunities around the world / Ashley Stepanek Lockhart, Ricardo Sabates, Nidhi Singal, and Thilanka Wijesinghe
  • Chapter 8. North koreans' human rights and the situation of foreign popular culture: An adult education perspective / Jinhee Choi
  • Section II. Economic empowerment: Laboring to learn, laboring to earn
  • Chapter 9. A human capabilities development perspective in adult education / Elizabeth A. Roumell and Bora Jin
  • Chapter 10. Unrealized potential: Marginalized youth around the globe, with AI? focus on Turkey / Aydın Yücesan Durgunoğlu and Fatoş Dayıoğlu
  • Chapter 11. Adult students in community colleges and economic justice / Kyung-Hwa K. Yang
  • Chapter 12. Looking for educational needs in the community: Adult educators' roles matter / Isaac Kofi Biney
  • Chapter 13. Leveraging continuing medical education in addressing health disparities: Case studies from the republic of Ghana / Linda D. Caples and Christopher M. Dodgion
  • Chapter 14. Strategies of engagement and support: Addressing the holistic needs of veterans pursuing higher education / Yvonne Hunter-Johnson, Sharlene Smith, Geleana Alston, and Aynur Charkasova
  • Chapter 15. Life status and prospects of community education workers / Lixin Sun, Shuo Li, and Yuxin Song
  • Section III. Environmental sustainability and adult education
  • Chapter 16. Learning to recreate the world: Adult education for environmental sustainability / Wendy Griswold
  • Chapter 17. Citizen science: Adult education for environmental sustainability and conservation / Jill Zarestky and Lauren Vilen
  • Chapter 18. Millennium fellows as catalysts for global climate change / Hilary Landorf, Yenisleidy Simon Mengana, and Birgitta Rausch-Montoto
  • Chapter 19. (mis)perceptions of aboriginal fishing: Why adult education must confront the environmental Indian stereotype / Stanford T. Goto
  • Chapter 20. Man-environment interaction in the rainforests and sustainable development: Practical implications for adult education / Kofo A. Aderogba
  • Chapter 21. Conclusion--adult education for human rights and sustainable development: The path forward / Petra A. Robinson, Mary V. Alfred, and Elizabeth Roumell
  • About the Authors.

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