Dr Caroline Holland

Aged Feminist.

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

I feel like I’ve been divorced when we still loved. Cui Bono? We shall see. #NotMyBrexit #IamEuropean

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

Lucky Liverpool Hope. Monica enjoy this wonderful place.

[Monica Grady @MonicaGrady]

It’s now official! Delighted to be appointed Chancellor of @LiverpoolHopeUK. A great privilege and pleasure https://t.co/Pk8rhhHnBE

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100 One final idea- building in expectations of keeping a collective idea of being citizens in 21c. That’s it for today - conversation to be continued in other places and times....

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100 WEA - social purpose: e.g. learning to use computers to underpin activism (eg on fracking) rather than just IT learning alone. But how can Adult Ed then resist accusations of fermenting social unrest (as happened after the 1919 report)?

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100 Fundamental question of what adult education is about. Is it just about personal interest, or need it have a wider remit to create active and engaged citizens? And how to make this idea attractive where people have retreated to home and near neighborhood?

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100 Suggestions: you need warmth, good information, welcoming atmosphere. And it matters who is delivering the teaching and who to. Building small groups, and who is expert on what, when, depending on context.

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100 John suggests that in 21c to make democracy work, we need to seriously sort out caring. And in very old age people need to be able to learn more than ever. A Caring Democracy. Bottom up planning.

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100. Final session: John Miles with some propositions for adult education in later life. We do need to be concerned with the state of our democracy. If there were suddenly to be resources again with a change of government, what would we do?

[BSG Technology & Ageing SIG @BsgTechAgeSig]

We’ve just created a map of the world - members of the group place an object where they were born relative to #Nottingham @carparkthinker #adulteducation100 @InstituteMH

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100 Great veggie lunch, thanks Notts ! Now, promoting and sustaining ICT support and provision for older people - the Long Eaton 50+ approach - informal, drop in, peer support, free, problem solving.

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100 Katherine from Crafting Relationships talking about Local History Cafes for over 50s where people can proactively prevent possible future isolation. ‘It’s not rocket science’ - but clearly well thought through and working. Sewing the seeds of agency.

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100 short break now. Next, workshops with local community educators using traditional and online techniques.

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100 good discussion on Trust - given where we all are today - and when we should and shouldn’t trust , not just online. Sounds to me like we need more Critical Studies education !

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100 Helen talking about over 60’s views on Trust, reputation, examples of disruptive experiences (cookies, hidden charges, pressure ads, enforced account creation, etc. ) and unreliability of online reviews

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100. Now Elvira Perez-Vallejos and Helen Creswick on - do older people feel excluded from tech and accessing knowledge? Rebuilding and enhancing trust in algorithms

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100. Sharon points out that for the younger adult too, FE has leaned towards training and teaching for work, rather than a broad education . (1919 commission’s ‘Humane’ and ‘Civic’ knew this! )

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100. The centenary commission report quotes our John Miles on how funders are pretty ambivalent ’ in relation to older people - its all about ‘wellbeing’ not ‘learning’.

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100
Time now for Gov to get serious about adult education, restore funding and work with regional authorities on a widely based curriculum for all ages . HIgher Ed needs to get behind this and get radical on how to engage people.

[Dr Caroline Holland @pipistrelle]

#AdultEducation100 Building a campaign for adult education to reverse the decimation of this sector especially for working class and left behind communities.