Webinar - Investigating participation in adult learning and education: but how is it measured?
Webinar - Investigating participation in adult learning and education: but how is it measured?
School of Education - CR&DALL
Date: Wednesday 13 March 2024
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Venue: Teams - online
Category: Academic events, Staff workshops and seminars
Speaker: Professor Ellen Boeren; Dr Betul Babayigit; Dr Sharon Clancy; Dr Corin Egglestone
Website: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c64170d5-268f-446f-990b-7271a0a2ccba@6e725c29-763a-4f50-81f2-2e254f0133c8
This webinar will present the audience to the ALE policies project, funded by the ESRC. The overall aim of the project is to investigate the knowledge base on adult education in the UK and Ireland, how participation has fluctuated over the past 25 years and how policy-makers use adult education data to feed into their policy processes. The webinar to take place on 13 March 2024 will introduce the audience to our review of survey programmes that include data on adult education issues. We will discuss differences in measurement and conceptualisation of adult education, drawing on insights from codebooks and questionnaires from the Learning & Work Institute's Adult Participation in Learning survey, the OECD's Programme for in International Assessment of Adult Competencies, the Eurostat Adult Education Survey and the Labour Force Survey. Throughout the presentation, we will investigate to what extent differences in methodologies and conceptual underpinnings lead to similar or different insights in the determinants of participation. The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session with the project's team members from the University of Glasgow, the University of Nottingham and the Learning & Work Institute.