Adult Education

This book explores why those involved in educating post-school young people and adults have quietly abandoned the term ‘education’ in favour of ‘learning’, and reveals key features of the policy environment around adult education. It addresses the developments that have occurred in the area; asks wh..

This book examines the literacy practices of exemplary adult education teachers working within critical literacy frameworks. It provides an in-depth look at the complexity of adult literacy education through the lenses of these teachers. An understanding of this complexity helps teachers design lite..

This work tells the story of a university-community collaboration to develop, implement, and evaluate a project designed to train immigrants and refugees as adult ESL and native literary instructors in their own communities...

Drawing on the experiences of a wide range of European countries, this book addresses major themes in the education of adults, such as participation, education and training, economic development and social movements...

This edited volume showcases the possibilities and challenges of the arts to adult education, whether practiced in community settings, university classrooms or arts and cultural institutions across Canada, the United States and Europe._x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of ..

The changing face of adult learning in the UK is the subject of this OU reader, reviewing the changes that have taken place and the extent to which inequality of opportunity still exists...

Provides a broad overview of some of the major trends and issues shaping the theories, practices, research traditions, and politics of adult literacy in the US since the 1980s...

The authors provide a variety of perspectives on adult learning, drawing on sociology, psychology, adult education and applied research into how adults experience learning, what motivates it, and how best it might be developed...

This book highlights how older people are learning in a myriad of ways and conditions. Fresh perspectives are provided on biographical insights into retirement and higher education, how older people generate know-how in the company of others and in cross-cultural aspects. It was originally published..

This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning and includes more than twenty-five articles from twenty-one years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education...

Today, rapid change is a constant challenge in the workplace, and thousands of individuals need to be involved in continuous learning. Traditional training approaches, however, do not emphasise informal and incidental learning. This book, first published in 1990, responds to this need by taking a ch..

Argues for the financial backing from governments and industry for adult education and will help adult and community educators draw comparisons between their own work and that of their colleagues in other developed countries...