Adult Education and Learning in a Precarious Age

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) 1997 CONFINTEA V (International Conference on Adult Education) conference in Hamburg has been described as the high-water mark of international adult education policymaking. It produced one of the most utopian statements about adult education and leaning of the past 25 years: the Hamburg Declaration on Adult Learning and Agenda for the Future. Contributors critically assess how far the visionary statements of the Hamburg Declaration have been advanced and implemented. They review the recent development of the ten themes of the Agenda for the Future, explore their local and global achievement through considering the result of the 2009 CONFINTEA VI conference and other related policy developments, and outline what is still necessary to realize the Declaration's goals.