Alan Rogers
I started my career teaching history in adult education, particularly local community history in community development projects. After an initial period in the north-east (University of Newcastle), I spent twenty years at Nottingham University as resident tutor, staff tutor, Senior Lecturer and Reader. I founded the Centre for Local History in that University, and began working with a large group of part-time tutors of local history with programmes of training for teaching adults. From 1972 I began to work in Third World development programmes on adult training and education (mainly India). In 1979 I was invited to become Director of the Institute of Continuing Education in Magee University College, Londonderry. In 1985 when the New University of Ulster was merged with the Ulster Polytechnic, I decided not to accept any of the positions offered and went freelance. I acted as founder Secretary General for the Commonwealth Association for the Education and Training of Adults 1985-1988 and established Education for Development based at the University of Reading, working overseas in adult education, during which time I held an Honorary Professorship at the University of Reading (1986 until 1998) and a professorial fellowship at the University of Surrey (1988-1993). In 1998 I retired from Education for Development, and currently hold a Special Professorship in Adult Education in the School of Continuing Education in the University of Nottingham and a Visiting Professorship in the University of East Anglia. I am Convenor for the Uppingham Seminars in Development and engage in research, evaluation and training programmes overseas, currently completing a project on adult literacy in Uganda and starting another in Ethiopia on training of adult education teachers. I am consultant to UNESCO on non-formal education and training of trainers. Both at Reading and Nottingham, I have been engaged in teaching courses at masters and doctoral level on adult learning and teaching, and on education in developing countries, and supervising masters dissertations and doctoral theses. I continue to write and publish both in adult education and local history. My major works include Teaching Adults (Open University Press - third edition 2002; translated into Greek, Chinese, Bangla and published also in India), Adults Learning for Development (Cassell 1992), Women, Literacy and Income Generation Reading: Education for Development 1994/1997, What is the Difference? a new critique of adult learning and teaching (NIACE 2003), Non-Formal Education: flexible schooling or participatory education? (Kluwer 2004); and Urban Literacy: communication, identity and learning in urban contexts (UNESCO Institute of Education 2004); also William Browne’s Town: Stamford 1465-1492 (Stamford Survey Group, 2006).
Recent conference papers:
Post-Literacy for Development: presented at a conference on post-literacy run by the National Council for Human Development, Islamabad, Pakistan, November 2005
Most recent books and chapters in books:
- ‘Afterword: problematising development and literacy’, in B V Street (ed) (2001) Literacy and Development: ethnographic perspectives London: Routledge
- Re-thinking Adult Literacy and Post-Literacy from an International Perspective: the Roby Kidd Memorial Lecture of 2000 Uppingham: Uppingham Press 2004
- ‘The world of adult literacy today’, in Farrell G M (ed) (2004) ICT and Literacy: who benefits? Vancouver; Commonwealth of Learning (with Archana Patkar and L S Saraswathi)
- Functional literacy, gender and identities: policy and practice, in A Robinson-Pant (ed) 2004 Women, Literacy and Development: alternative perspectives London: RoutledgeFalmer
- The World of Adult Literacy Today, in Farrell Glen M (ed) ICT and Literacy: who benefits? Experiences from Zambia and India. Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver (with Md Aftab Uddin) ‘Adults Learning Literacy: adult learning theory and the provision of literacy classes in the context of developing societies, in Street B V (ed) (2004) Literacies Across Educational Contexts: mediating learning and teaching Philadelphia: Caslon Publishing
- Education for All: putting adults back in the frame Special issue of Convergence 37(3) 2004 guest editor and Editorial article, Education for All and adult learning pp 3-14
- Researching Literacies in the Context of Developing Societies, in Researching Literacies: Embedding in Policy and Practice 2006 published by CRLL, University of Glasgow pp 4-18
Recent articles:
- 2007 Women, Literacy and Citizenship: a critique International Review of Education Vol. 53, No. 2, 2007 pp 159-181
- 2007 (with Judy Hunter and Md Aftab Uddin) Adult Learning and Literacy Learning for Livelihoods: Some International Perspectives Development in Practice 17.1 2007 pp137-146
- 2006 Lifelong Learning and the Absence of Gender, International Journal of Educational Development Volume 26 Number 2, March 2006 pp 189-208
- 2006 Escaping the slums or changing the slums? Lifelong Learning and Social Transformation, International Journal of Lifelong Education Vol. 25 No. 2 March-April 2006: pp 125-137
- 2006 Training Adult Literacy Educators in Developing Countries in Adult Education and Development 66 pp 203-238
- 2006 (with Brian Street and Dave Baker), Adult teachers as researchers: ethnographic approaches to numeracy and literacy as social practices in South Asia, Convergence 39.1 pp 31-44
- 2006 Training Adult Literacy Educators in Developing Countries, Adult Education and Development 66 pp 203-238
- 2006 Escaping the slums or changing the slums? Lifelong Learning and Social Transformation. International Journal of Lifelong Education Vol. 25 No. 2 March-April 2006 Routledge pp 125-137
- 2006 Lifelong Learning and the Absence of Gender, International Journal of Educational Development Vol 26 Number 2 March 2006 pp 189-208
- 2005 Literacy and Productive Skills Training: Embedded Literacies, Adult Education and Development 65 Bonn: IIZ/DVV pp 59-66
- 2005 Literacy and Productive Skills Training: Embedded Literacies, Adult Education and Development 65/2005 Bonn: IIZ/DVV pp 59-66
- 2005 DFID Experience of Adult Literacy International Journal of Educational Development 26 No. 3 May 2006 pp 339-346
- 2004 Adult Literacy - Adult Motivation, Adult Education and Development Vol. 61, pp 61-72, Bonn, Germany: IIZ/DVV
- 2004 Language in Adult Basic Education and in Higher Education NORRAG News 25, September 2004
- 1999 Staff Training and Development for Adult Literacy, in Literacy: an international handbook, edited D A Wagner, R L Venezky and Brian V Street Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press
- 1997 Adult Literacy, in Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Vol 2 pp 163-172 London: Kluwer
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