community learning

In the United States tends to be used to describe the extension of opportunities to children. Also used in this sense in a number of other countries e.g. Ghana as a result of US aid.

In Scotland we have seen the growing replacement of the notion of community education with that of community learning.

Our vision for Scotland is of a dynamic learning society. A democratic and socially just society should enable all of its citizens, in particular those who are socially excluded, to develop their potential to the full and to have the capacity, individually and collectively, to meet the challenge of change. The learning society will provide an active and informed citizenship. (Scottish Executive 1999)

Parallels the shift from adult education to lifelong learning.

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