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Help us to help ourselves
- Author:
- STANISTREET Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 22(2), October 2010, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
The Adult Safeguarded Learning budget is under threat in the current spending review. Yet much of the learning it funds is facilitating the kind of self-organising, grassroots activism the government says it wants to support. The author visited two local authorities (Kirklees Council and Somerset County Council) to see the often profound difference this sort of learning is making to communities. The article outlines how the services help to inspire people into transforming their lives, and how they engage the hard to reach adults. Through learning, the programmes promote community cohesion and help build agency within the community. These schemes also help in promoting democratic citizenship, with adults being more likely to engage in civic activities.
Alive and kicking
- Author:
- STANISTREET Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 21(5), January 2010, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
This article describes how the Street Life Soccer project gives homeless and vulnerably housed people a chance to change their lives through football. The programme was set up four years ago in Norwich to engage learners which were considered ‘hard to reach’. The project runs for 30 weeks a year, with daily two-hour sessions comprising of an hour of team-talk, during which learners cover areas such as problem solving, communication, and team-work, followed by an hour of football. The article describes all the main hostels in Norwich are now engaged in the programme, with more than 270 men and women involved. The article highlights how Street Life Soccer has included Open College Network progression qualifications level 2 as a starting point, which are then transferred onto the pitch in order to build confidence and provide beneficial experiences for the learners. The programme has now been adopted in Kings Lynn and Great Yarmouth.