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It is an activity engaged in by young adults resulting in destroying water bodies and posing water-related challenges to the citizenry. This qualitative study sought to ascertain what informed practitioners in the media space to mount a sustained lifelong learning drive against ‘galamsey’ in Ghana. The study used in-depth interview and focus group discussions to collect data from 15 participants purposively selected. Six male and female participants also shared their experiences on the ‘galamsey’ menace and the fight against it. Their thought, views and insightful ideas lie at the heart of this study. It emerged that the ‘galamsey’ activities were complex and engaged in by both Ghanaians and foreigners using heavy earth moving machines destroying forest vegetation cover and water bodies. The players involved bribe their way for protection. This paper recommends that the Government of Ghana and media houses involved  \n436 Isaac Kofi Biney  \nin the fight against ‘galamsey’sustain the lifelong learning drive to save water bodies, arable lands, and forest vegetation cover in Ghana.  \nKeywords: Media, lifelong learning, informal learning, mobilisation,‘galamsey’, Ghana  \nIntroduction  \nThe media including radio, television and social media platforms seem powerful tools to promote lifelong and informal learning among the citizenry. Foley (1999) admits that the most interesting and significant learning occur informally, and incidentally, in people’s everyday lives. The media possesses the power to promote lifelong, lifewide and life sustaining learning (Jegede, 2018; Stadler, 2007) among the citizenry. It empowers the citizenry to address unemployment and poverty facing them. The informal education provided by over 300 local radio stations, 30 television stations, newspapers, tabloids and social media tools in Ghana (National Media Commission, 2018) could serve as powerful communication tools to educate and empower the citizenry to effect changes in communities for improved quality of life. The provision of such powerful popular education, awareness creation, and conscientisation, thus developing consciousness, but consciousness that is understood to have the power to transform reality (Taylor, 1993, p. 52). It is about creating critical awareness amongst the citizenry to enable them realise their strengths, opportunities, gaps and challenges that they have in their communities. The media then can engender such social movement which could result in positive changes in communities. As the citizenry engage in dialogue, they learn to become critical thinkers, and take action to address their concerns, problems or challenges.  \nTo Freire (1970), the true knowledge of reality, which he terms‘conscientisation’, penetrates to what reality is because it is connected with praxis—a union of reflection and action. After all, knowledge evolves from continual interaction and cycles of reflection and action, which Freire (1985) refers to as praxis, which occurs ‘when human beings participate in a transforming act’(p. 106) . Freire adds that human beings are active agents who transform their world. No  \nExploring the power of the media in promoting lifelong learning 437  \nwonder, Gertze (2015) opines that ‘social movement helps enrich life, stimulating intellectual curiosity, fostering literacy and encouraging an informed citizenry’(p. 60). The questions that arise are: What is lifelong learning? How can itbe realised among community members who are seeking social change in t","cbCaia7iUL7wtZwI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia7iUL7wtZwI","pdf",456160,33,"English","# Introduction\n# Lifelong learning and media’s educational role\n# Conscientisation, praxis, and social movement\n# Definitions and historical roots of lifelong learning","[{\"question\":\"What is the study examining about media and lifelong learning in Ghana?\",\"answer\":\"The study examines how media can promote lifelong learning and mobilize citizens against “galamsey” activities in Ghana.\"},{\"question\":\"How was data collected for the qualitative study?\",\"answer\":\"Data were collected through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with 15 purposively selected participants.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the study recommend to respond to galamsey and protect resources?\",\"answer\":\"The paper recommends that the Government of Ghana and involved media houses sustain the lifelong learning drive to save water bodies, arable lands, and forest vegetation cover in Ghana.\"}]","Australian Journal of Adult Learning - Volume 59 - Exploring the Power of the Media in Promoting Lifelong Learning | PDF",1792078075,83]