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UALL AGM & Presentation - 3rd December 2020.
The UALL Executive is pleased to extend an invitation to members and friends to the 2020 AGM which will focus on the dissolution of the current governance structure and the approval of the formation of UALL as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
Thursday, 3rd December 2020, 09:00 – 11:00
09:00 Welcome Professor Jonathan Michie, UALL Chair (current).
Presentation Professor Linden West, Canterbury Christ Church University
09:30 AGM of the Council of UALL
10:30 UALL CIO
11:00 Close
You are invited to attend the presentation only or both the presentation and meeting. Whilst voting is restricted to member institutions, we welcome all to stay and participate in the Association’s transformation.
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PRESENTATION
Dialogue with the other: the difficult (but sacred?) business of adult education in a fractious world - Presented by Professor Linden West, Canterbury Christ Church University
Dr Linden West is Professor of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is a celebrated author and researcher in the field of lifelong learning, adult, and higher education.
Most recently he has worked with Palestinian and Israeli Jewish educators on building dialogue and citizenship education across profound collective traumas. Linden lectured in continuing education at the University of Kent and was a researcher at the Universities of East London and Keele. He was employed at a senior level in the WEA, further education, and Local Authority adult education. He served as Visiting Professor at Paris Nanterre, Milano Bicocca and Michigan State and jointly coordinated the ESREA Life History and Biography and Transforming Perspectives Networks over many years. He is an honorary life member of SCUTREA. His recent books include Distress in the City: racism, fundamentalism and a democratic education and Transforming perspectives in lifelong learning and adult education: a dialogue, written with Laura Formenti, which won the prestigious 2019 AAACE Cyril O. Houle prize for 'outstanding literature in adult education'. In 2020 Linden was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame at the University of Oklahoma.
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