The idea of Continuing education suggests that something is missing that ought to be filled in, therefore the contemporary notion of education goes beyond what only take place in the four walls of the classroom. Continuing education connotes that sub-set of adult education that seeks to positively link the needs and aspirations of individuals with educational activities, for development of their potentialities and for the socioeconomic and political development of a nation or state. The paper examined the concepts of continuing education, objectives, forms, contents and challenges of continuing education and also highlighted the prospects that a nation or individuals can derive or achieve through the sustained impact of continuing education.
This paper aims to reflect on the relationship between global and interculturaleducation. According to the "Global Education Charter" of the EuropeanCouncil, Global Education can be defined as the possibility/ability toeducate people to participate during their lives actively and responsibly inbuilding a global future in peace, in realizing an intercultural dialogue, insupporting education to beauty, and to the protection and preservation ofthe environment and of all living species. It means that Global Education isboth a theoretic perspective wider than "simple" intercultural education,and more directly connected with a global sensibility and with a deeperknowledge of planetary problems like migrations, wars, famine, structuralviolence, climatic change, ecologic disasters, human rights. It also implies atrue interdisciplinary approach which is really able to connect educationtheories to anthropological, sociological, political and epistemologicalmodels. ; Questo scritto intende riflettere sui rapporti tra la Global Education e lapedagogia interculturale. Partendo dalla "Global Education Charter" elaboratadal Consiglio Europeo, la Global Education può essere definite come lacapacità di educare le persone nel corso della loro vita a partecipare attivamentee responsabilmente alla costruzione di un futuro planetario all'insegnadella pace, del dialogo interculturale, dell'educazione al bello, dellatutela e della salvaguardia dell'ambiente e di tutte le specie viventi. Daquesto punto di vista è necessario sviluppare una sensibilità e unaconoscenza verso tematiche di ordine planetario – le migrazioni, le guerre,la fame, la povertà, la violenza strutturale, i disastri ambientali, il cambiamentoclimatico, i diritti umani, la democrazia – utilizzando una prospettivainterdisciplinare, capace di evidenziare fattori cruciali nella teorizzazionedella pedagogia: antropologico-formativi, socio-politici, epistemologico-culturali.
The usefulness of the application of the psychodynamic frame of reference in person- to-person health education is examined in the presert study. The health educator's proper understanding of his client through an integrative use of his own cognitive and emotional responses to the client is first discussed. Depending on the level of maturity of their personalities, and on the nature of their formative relations, the clients will develop different modes of interaction in their relationships with the health educator. Learning to adequately recognize and meet clients showing different interac tional modes is considered to substantially increase the prospects of the health educator helping his clients to accomplish a change in health behaviour. Four levels of interaction and their proper encountering are described and discussed. It is concluded that health education and individual health educators would benefit from an increased familiarity with, and use of, the psychodynamic body of knowledge.
Communities are strategic in a variety of ways towards the provision and management of education as well as teaching, learning and enforcement processes. However, communities play a variety of roles in the enhancement of democratic practice and stability. This paper discusses how communities can be involved in the promotion and management of education as well as the development of the capacity of communities to assume increased role in handling the entire education environments towards enhanced funding, management and monitoring under democratic settings. Method used in this study is the content analysis of community and democratic participation in various forms and dimensions in order to show the challenges and prospects in the Nigerian setting. Results in the study indicate that community participation in education and democratic participation must be inherently connected to each other for stable polity and good governance, as well as expansion of educational and other services. It is recommended that partnership and interaction between community and government in education must be built to provide initiative, responsibility, sensitivity for participation in education and governance designed to prevent break in communication and breakdown of law and order.
peer-reviewed ; There is an abundance of cross-national quantitative studies of 'what works' in education and teacher education in the international literature. However, there is a paucity of cross-national studies in relation to ideological governing forms in education and teacher education, what is perceived as worthwhile and desirable. This study seeks to address this gap in the literature through a comparative socio-historical meta-analysis of ideological governing form in education and teacher education, in Sweden and the Republic of Ireland, from the mid-19th century to contemporary times. The study uses categories of governance, ideology, emancipation and democracy as linkage points to examine similarities and differences in contextual, moral and cultural politics. Despite significant differences between a highly secular education system in Sweden and a highly non-secular system of education in the Republic of Ireland, findings show remarkable similarities in the shaping of ideological governing forms over this long historical timeline, signalling a contemporary governance turn toward scientific rationalism and moral conservatism more typically associated with the 1960s. ; PUBLISHED ; peer-reviewed
Both gender equality and education policy are important priorities on the political agenda in Europe. The Research and Training Network "Women in European Universities" focuses on higher education and women's career-perspectives in systems of higher education of seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom). The main focus of the project is to explore the "glass-ceiling" that women meet when they chose a career in academia and strive for top rank positions such as professorships. As a first step in our research, it is important to understand the different systems of higher education, as well as recent changes and challenges to women in academia. This contextual analysis is one result of the first phase of the research project and shall provide information about the Swedish system of higher education. The Swedish system of higher education underwent fundamental changes in both organisational form and ideological practice during the last thirty years. Especially the three reforms in the 90's gave the higher education system in Sweden a new face: They gave more weight to management structures, fixed-term contracts and focused more on an Anglo-American model of higher education than on the "old" Humboldtian model. The reforms brought important changes for the Swedish system of higher education, but certain patterns remain untouched. One can still find the "hidden binary system" within university colleges representing institutions to undergraduate education and universities that offer post-graduate education and research. And to a certain extent, this builds the ground for the remaining persistence of sex-specific divisions in both fields of study and different posts on the academic career ladder.
This design involves having students create actual companies and focuses all classroom attention on the interpersonal processes of managing a small group. This article describes modifications made to Nirenberg's model that were stimulated by feedback from our culturally diverse student body. Our modifications and innovations include: (a) providing "thought starters" to help students evaluate their course experiences, (b) changing the method of selecting group leaders, (c) requiring a business plan for the project, (d) requiring teams to develop a performance appraisal and feedback system for assessing members, (e) adding the use of textbooks, and (f) using several team-building activities during the semester.
This paper stresses that despite the fact that India is a fast developing economy difficulties have led the Government to conclude that far more needs to be done to engender more employment opportunities for the majority of Indians, to enable them to participate in the benefits of growth and to contribute to that growth. To do this they must have education and training that equips them for the labor market. One of the sources of the skilled workforce is the vocational education and training system. However, the government realizes that the system is not being able to appropriately respond to the needs of the labor market. A key issue, then, is what reforms/interventions are needed to improve the effectiveness of the system. Answering that question is far from easy and this paper attempts to provide some options for doing so. On the one hand India faces the future with its changing realities; on the other hand it must deal with the nature of its established traditions and structures. This paper has laid out some key reforms that must be undertaken in different areas to make the vocational education and vocational training systems more responsive to the needs of the labor market. The reform agenda is fairly comprehensive and all the reforms cannot be implemented immediately. Given this, the paper has laid out some of the critical reforms that need to be undertaken in the short-run (first phase) followed by others that can be undertaken over a period of 2-3 years. The first phase focuses on reforms aimed at improving the quality and labor market relevance of the existing system, while the medium-term agenda also includes moving forward on mobilizing additional resources for the system, especially once the quality has improved. However the background work needed to undertake reforms in the medium-term should also commence immediately. These reforms should be treated as a package. If only some are instituted, while others are not, it is unlikely that the objective of developing a truly demand-responsive system will ...
Utilizing knowledge of education to manage technology as modern human lifestyles and meet the demands of work and life is the subject of this study. While those living in the suburbs to meet the demands of education, utilizing information technology as a way of life will come to their rescue. They also still use the natural wealth of forests, mountains and oceans as a source of learning and life. In remote areas, technology and the demands of rapid change, are sluggish and does not make the technology as a necessity of life. They depend on nature to meet their educational knowledge as well as the necessities of life. How technology can be implemented and enjoyed on this earth without distinguishing its diversity. They utilize contextual nature as education and then institutionalized it in teaching. Every human being has the same rights and if in fact there is a gap it means that there is injustice. So there are things that need to be repaired. The knowledge and skills of human resources in the context of this study are defined as an entity of teachers. Human and organizational resources, which indeed underlies the base of organizational performance. There is a substantive difference between knowledge and skill. The concept of knowledge is more oriented to intelligence, intellect, and extensive mastery of knowledge and the narrowness of insight that one. This is a qualitative descriptive study based on the paradigm of post positivism. Qualitative research is still using the theories and concepts that are not tested as in positivism paradigm. The results of the study of literature are (1) The need for establishing educational institutions in each region are categorized as remote and isolated areas. (2) Closer direct services to remote and isolated areas then form the institution can be either natural school. (3) Adequate education that is modified and performed should remain principled and lead to economic value, efficiently utilize the environment without leaving the quality of education. Efforts to render these services is in line with Government Regulation No. 19 Year 2005 on National Education Standards, at the school level, which can be used as a referral to the rule above are: (1) education as a process of acculturation and empowerment. (2) Education in order to increase the nation's competitiveness. (3) Education for development. (4) Education for affirmative action / serving disadvantaged communities. (5) The commitment to the policy of providing certain types of education.
