LAUSR

Paul Belanger is a renowned champion of adult and lifelong learning, and has been for many years. In 1999, in consideration of the then changing nature of work and the increased learning demands this was generating, he wrote ‘A quiet revolution in education is now in the making … Self-reliant participation, autonomy and continual learning are required as never before, in all areas of life’ (Belanger, 1999, p. 19). In that article he went on to caution us of the dangers of this learning demand-driven revolution tending to little more than the reproduction of the lifelong inequalities that a lack of access to learning opportunities had already established in both developing and developed countries. Those new times were demanding new and greater learning, and that learning was going to be the bedrock on which the transformation of work and society could be secured. Now in this new book, his clarion call is louder, more detailed, more emphatic, more deeply rooted in the emotional responses and understandings of a champion who has given much to the cause of promoting adult liberation and social equity through learning and work.