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Reflecting on his personal experience in adult education, Duke finds some reason for optimism in the progress made by projects of the International Council on Adult Education and the International Literacy Year. Charts a...
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Discusses the distinction between education and learning and their relationship to active citizenship. Addresses the role of universities and adult education in providing a second chance for second class citizens. (SK)...
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A study of continuing vocational education in British universities found a variety of organizational approaches and assumptions that continuing education should be mainstreamed and self-financing. Essential elements incl...
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This document contains 14 papers on the purposes and traditions, challenges and dilemmas, and new approaches and issues in liberal adult education. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Duke); "Decus et Tuta...
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Changes in the University Funding Council in Britain have thrust continuing education research into prominence. Changes may occur in the kind of scholarly community that will form, as well as the content and style of res...
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A consultation between industry and education representatives in Great Britain explored dimensions of partnerships for the education and training of young people beyond compulsory schooling age. Because lifelong learning...
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Features of the Australian educational system are examined: the evolution of postcompulsory education, continuing education and training within employment from 1950-80, issues and options faced in the mid-1980s, and deci...
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Some issues raised by this review of recent literature on crisis and change in higher education are whether liberal education will survive, whether systemic changes will benefit adult learners, how labor-intensive higher...
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Like the rest of British life around them, Great Britain's universities of adult and continuing education are currently in the midst of a period of great change. There has been much debate surrounding the relative import...
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The author discusses adult education, poverty, and development in developing nations. Emphasis is on the results of the International Council for Adult Education's poverty project, which attempted to determine the most e...
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The author discusses the work of the International Council for Adult Education in the areas of poverty, development, and international aid. Development, he contends, serves only to widen the gap between the haves and hav...
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The study described in this report reviews adult education relevant to immigration and multiculturalism in Australia. The report is presented in three parts. The first part examines the background and context of adult ed...
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This monograph contains five studies of participation in adult education. The first paper, "Participation in Organised Adult Education: A Review of the Literature" by R. J. Sumner, examines a selection of studies conduct...
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The result of several study visits and explorations in modes of cooperation between the International Council for Adult Education and the People's Republic of China was the first International Symposium on Adult Educatio...
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This summary explains how symposium participants attempted to examine worldwide theories of adult education and to relate these to different social, economic, cultural, and political circumstances. (SK)...