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This dictionary defines approximately 3,500 terms related to adult, continuing, higher, and lifelong learning. It provides detailed references to the main historical and contemporary figures, organizations, and concepts ...
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This book contains 19 papers on 20th century thinkers in adult and continuing education. The book is arranged in four parts as follows: early 20th century English thinkers; early 20th century American thinkers; theorists...
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Information technology, empowered by those who control capital, has become the global infrastructure, resulting in the development of learning societies as superstructural phenomena. Four dimensions of the learning socie...
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The new millennium marks a time for reassessment of the field of comparative education. Comparative education needs to address the widening interest in comparative and international research, the impact of computerized i...
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Argues that globalization is standardizing the way that higher education responds to the pressures of the international division of labor, but because Western countries have more knowledge workers, they will point the wa...
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Globalization is changing the nature of knowledge and therefore of education. In response to global forces, nursing education may change delivery modes, become a marketable commodity, and be delivered by new providers. (...
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Continuing education is exposed to global market forces in that it must relate to changing global workforce structures and demands and is itself a marketable commodity. This allows no simple comparisons between nations o...
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This textbook examines the theory and practice of adult and continuing education. The following topics are among those discussed in 11 chapters: rationale for provision of education for adults (nature of contemporary soc...
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Underlines trends in continuing education that are valid in both the United Kingdom and in North America. (JOW)...
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Discusses the semantic and conceptual background surrounding the term "adult education," and the complexity of adult education in the United Kingdom. (JOW)...
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Describes the manner in which continuing education has changed over the past decade in the United Kingdom. Notes the increase in emphasis on continuing vocational education and the decline in support for adult general ed...
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This paper is an analysis of one facet of a survey conducted among junior school teachers in the County Borough of Warley, England, which demonstrates that teachers conduct moral education under the banner of religious e...