PIMA Bulletin No. 29

March 2020

 Dear PIMA Members,

 

Many thanks to the editorial team and for all contributors for this excellent edition. We encourage you to continue the conversations by contacting the authors directly or email the Bulletin editors.

 

Best wishes, 

Shirley Walters

Editorial by Chris Duke

A folksy saying favoured in my ‘other Sydney’ out West is that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. This fits the mood as this Bulletin goes to press. The going always seems tough to those working in adult learning and education (ALE): poor cousin, Cinderella, little money, no recognition, left out of the global planning of MDGs and all but out of the SDGs, and so on.

 

Now it is tough and bewilderingly fast-moving for everyone. Contributions written short days ago - Jenny Macaffer’s on climate change and what the Australian fires were like, Colin McGregor on the first impact of Coronavirus COVID-19 in New Zealand - already seem way back. Today (on 19 March 2020) we may ask:  which is the crisis: the new pandemic encompassing all regions and by now most nations?...

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Adult Learning and Education (ALE), Climate Crises and COVID-19: Critical Reflections from Australia

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