This magazine celebrates 2010 International Adult Learners’ Week (ILAW) in Canada, showcasing the contributions lifelong learning makes to individuals, communities and the world.
This magazine has been published to mark International Adult Learners’ Week 2009 (IALW). In Canada, IALW 2009 will be celebrated March 2 – 8. Since 2000, this celebration has recognized adult learners in more than forty countries around the world who have embraced learning. The Power of Learning showcases ten adult learners from across Canada.
This document was prepared to mark the International Adult Learners’ Week, observed March 3-9, 2008.
It contains articles about the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed in 1948, and the Education for All (EFA) statement formulated at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, in 2000, which reaffirms education as a fundamental human right,