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NIACE ANNUAL RACE EQUALITY CONFERENCE
This year NIACE’s Annual Race Equality conference will ask the question, “why is it that some black and minority ethnic adults are more mobile than others, and what is the role of adult education in levelling the playing field”? This conference promises to be an exciting debate-focused event.
“There will always be poverty, but in a society experiencing rapid social change, deprivation has taken on unexpected new guises”, argue Geoff Mulgan and Alessandra Buonfino (The Young Foundation).
The expectation for any individual who has even come to Britain voluntarily from abroad is that through hard work and careful endeavour that they will improve their own lives and those of their children, and that with successive generations there will be a gradual matriculation up the occupational ladder.
But set against a backdrop of increasing globalisation and isolation for some communities social mobility seems to have ground to a halt with adults from certain groups rapidly pedalling backwards.
In 21st Century Britain many adults “find themselves caught between the impacts of rising expectations in a fast-changing economy and a culture that bombards them with temptations” (Geoff Mulgan and Alessandra Buonfino ibid).
The conference will:
• Demonstrate the role that adult education has in facilitating the process relating to social mobility and explore a range of related themes and topics
• Focus directly on learners’ experiences and their views on the contribution that adult education has made to their personal and professional/career development and that of their families.
• Enable delegates to learn from what has worked in successfully engaging black and minority ethnic learners
• Inform the debate
• Update delegates’ knowledge and information on regional and local strategies aimed at promoting equality of opportunity and participation and success in education.
The conference will be suitable for all involved in adult education as practitioners and policy makers and from across all adult education sectors.
To reserve a place using the Online Conference Reservation facility (OCR),
Visit: http://www.niace.org.uk/Conferences
Enquiries to: Gurjit Kaur on Tel: 0116 2042833 Email: gurjit.kaur@niace.org.uk
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