Adult education in the post-Secondary context: Sustainability in the 21st century

Abstract

The role of adult education is considered within the post-secondary context. In this paper, sustainability education, and particularly, the recent emergence globally of the United Nations University’s Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs) provides an example of how adult education May continue to serve in the 21st century, an era that has already proven itself in peril with issues of social and environmental justice—spanning wide ranging challenges of gender, race, and ecology.