Adult education and citizenship education in global times : policy provisions and programme deliveries in Italy and Nigeria

Inuwa, Bilyaminu Bello (author), Mancarella, Dino (author), Olatunji, Taiwo (author), Rigoni, Paola (author), Breitschwerdt, Lisa (author), Mikulec, Borut (author)

The purpose of this paper is to show how extant policies at global, regional, national, and local levels frame adult education (AE) programmes for citizenship education (CE) in Italy and Nigeria. In our theoretical framework, we combine Biesta’s conceptualisation of public pedagogy with Schugurensky’s multidimensional conceptualisation of citizenship as status, identity, civic virtues, and agency. For the comparative empirical analysis, we compared two country cases – Italy and Nigeria – by examining policies and programmes that frame CE. Our findings show that in both countries, international and regional policies influence CE programmes. However, whereas Italy’s CE policies and programmes promote global citizenship (GC) and sustainability, policies and programmes in Nigeria focus more on social empowerment and human rights awareness raising.

• Language: English
• Keywords: adult learning, adult education, comparative adult eduction, policy, adult education policy, citizenship education
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 31-49
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-147693
• UDC: 374.7
• DOI: 10.3278/9783763971336
• COBISS.SI-ID: 158487043
• Publication date in RUL: 11.07.2023

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Comparative research in adult education : global perspectives on participation, sustainability and digitalisation
• Editors: Lisa Breitschwerdt, Jörg Schwarz, Sabine Schmidt-Lauff
• Place of publishing: Bielefeld
• Publisher: wbv Media, wbv Publikation
• Year: 2023
• ISBN: 978-3-7639-7132-9
• COBISS.SI-ID: 158447107
• Collection title: Erwachsenenbildung und lebensbegleitendes Lernen

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: andragogika, izobraževanje odraslih, učenje odraslih, izobraževanje za državljanstvo, komparativna andragogika, andragogika, politika izobraževanja odraslih