A study on ‘Adult Learning in Malta', co-authored by Prof. Carmel Borg, Prof. Peter Mayo and Dr Milosh Raykov, from the Faculty of Education, has just been published. The study provides insights into current participation, content and forms of adult learning.
The research was supported financially by the ERASMUS+ programme of the European Union through the EU Agenda for Adult Learning Project (2015) implemented by the Directorate for Lifelong Learning and Early School Leavers.
The publication was partially funded by the Faculty of Education at the University of Malta.
Below is an extract from the Preface by Prof. Sandro Caruana:
‘Adult education’, ‘adult learning’ and ‘lifelong learning’ are terms which are popular in public discourse today. Indeed they are carriers of notions which sound pleasant to the ear, and which easily garner widespread approval. Who is, after all, not in favour of a society which creates possibilities of learning for adults, which makes education readily accessible beyond compulsory schooling and which portrays it as a lifelong process? The popularisation of these terms, and of the notions they carry, while conducive to consciousness-raising and not negative per se, does conceal some dangers. One of these is when adult education is viewed exclusively as an instrumental tool, possibly also marketed as a product, and not as a means to improve one’s quality of life, to form reflective citizens and to lead to even further opportunities for learning.
