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Since it was founded in 1945, UNESCO has been supporting global dialogue and action in the field of Adult Learning and Education. In 1949, it organized the first CONFINTEA. Since then, five further CONFINTEA conferences have taken place at intervals of roughly twelve years, providing UNESCO member states with valuable opportunities to consider ...
In 2017, nine educators were inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame in Suwon City, South Korea, during the UNESCO-CONFITA VI conference. In 2018, the 23rd induction ceremony was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, during the national convention of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU).
ISCAE's origins can be traced back to 1960, when Dr. Alexander N. Charters, professor of adult education at Syracuse University, and Canadian scholar of adult education J. Roby Kidd formed a working group on international and comparative adult education at the first world conference of the World Council for Comparative Education in Ottawa.
It is a non-profit international research, training, information, documentation and publishing centre on literacy, non-formal education, adult and lifelong learning. It provides services to UNESCO's Member States, NGOs , and grassroots and community organizations, as well as to partners in civil society and the private sector.
UNESCO Chairs, an international network of 644 UNESCO chairs, involving more than 770 institutions in 126 countries; Environmental Conservation Organization; Convention against Discrimination in Education adopted in 1960; Organization of the International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA) in an interval of 12 years
In 1972, the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) was established by J. Roby Kidd, with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario.. The first World Assembly on Adult Education and Development occurred in Dar es Salaam in 1976, four years after ICAE was established.
Adult Learners' Week is an international festival of adult learning.It is a UNESCO initiative that was first celebrated in the United States in the late ’80s, where there was a move to create a broad celebration of adult learning by the American Association for the Advancement of Education (AAAE).
Exemplary situation – a workshop, the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) Annual Conference in Wellington, New Zealand in 2012. Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained educating activities in order to gain new knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. [1]