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katarinapopovic — Neither good or bad per se, adult education is – the same as education – value loaded, writes Katarina Popović.

From the ELM, European Lifelong Learning Magazine
Speakers’ corner. Balkan has been (and still is) a turbulent region, with periods marked by nationalism, conflicts, even wars. Was adult education an innocent accompanist of the events, with no power to change or to influence? Or was it an active soul, powerful instrument used for good and for bad, asks Katarina Popović.

We tend to think about adult education through pink glasses, as something that improves lives and societies, help people to develop and solve the problems. But adult education is not married only to humanistic values and good purposes, and history of Balkan is showing it.

Just over a month ago, 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)-COP22 took place in Marrakesh, in what Parties and the Moroccan Presidency had labelled the ‘COP of Action’.
WEDO, alongside its partners in the Women and Gender Constituency, went to COP22 with a comprehensive set of demands, outlining principles for implementation of national plans that would ensure human rights, gender equality and the rights of indigenous peoples; specific recommendations as to how issues of water, agriculture and health are framed in the UNFCCC process; and clear positions against corporate influence in the climate process and the reliance on leveraging private finance for climate action over public funding from Governments.

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Adult education – everyone’s lover?

WEDO at COP22 in Marrakesh