Global Vision or Corporate Nightmare? The Privatization of Adult Education in the New Millennium

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  • Jennifer Sumner University of Guelph

Abstract

Adult education in the new millennium is examined through a critical lens: Whose interests will it serve? After discussing corporate globalization, the World Bank, and the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education, this paper focuses on the implications for adult education of the privatizing agenda. It then argues that adult education can open blocked public space which, in turn, can enhance civil capital and help people and communities to build the healthy civil society they require to resist the colonizing effects of corporate globalization.

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Quels intérêts l'éducation des adultes servira-t-elle dans le prochain millénaire? Dans le contexte de la mondialisation des marchés, de l'influence croissante de la Banque Mondiale, et de la Conférence mondiale sur l'éducation supérieure de l'UNESCO, ce texte se penche sur les conséquences, pour l'éducation des adultes, de la tendance à la privatisation. On soutient en outre que l'éducation des adultes peut faire revivre le débat public, et reconstruire le capital civil nécessaire pour résister aux effets colonisateurs de la mondialisation du commerce.

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Published

1999-11-01

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Sumner, J. (1999). Global Vision or Corporate Nightmare? The Privatization of Adult Education in the New Millennium. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 13(2), 73–85. Retrieved from https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/index.php/cjsae/article/view/2001

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