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“First we must educate adults”: Nyerere’s policy on adult education and its implications for modern-day Tanzania
Adult education is still regarded as a strategic agent for development and socio-economic transformation in many countries. In Tanzania, a special...
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The imagined learner in adult literacy education policy research: An international comparison
This article provides a comparative analysis of the ways in which learners are portrayed in researchers’ descriptions of adult literacy education...
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Adult education in mathematics and numeracy: a sco** review of recent research
The paper responds to the need for understanding trends and gaps in extant research related to adult education in mathematics and numeracy, given...
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Bringing together monitoring approaches to track progress on adult learning and education across main international policy tools
This article critically examines how monitoring strategies currently track progress on country commitments to adult learning and education (ALE)....
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The role of adult learning and education in the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), launched by the United Nations in 2015, established ambitious targets to be achieved by 2030, including in...
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Serving adults who have difficulty reading: challenges faced by U.S. adult education administrators
Recent assessments suggest that 43 million adults in the United States have difficulty completing basic reading tasks. Although the federal Workforce...
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From Learner-Centered Education (LCE) to Emancipatory Learner-Centered Education (ELCE): A comparative case study of language education for adult migrants in four European countries
This article discusses the findings of qualitative case-study research that looks at pedagogical contexts of adult education programs for migrants in...
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Adult learning and education in the Mediterranean – a view from southern Europe
This article examines the key role that adult learning and education (ALE) has played and continues to play in addressing the challenges faced by...
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Negotiating border-crossings when ‘adult education’ meets ‘vocational learning’. Comparative historical notes on defining the ‘research object’
This paper offers a theoretical perspective on socio-historical research addressing the social organisation of communication and learning as cultural...
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Higher Education Policy Narratives during COVID-19: How are Budget Requests Justified to State Legislatures?
During economic recessions, state funding for higher education contracts (Delaney & Doyle,
2011 ; Hovey,1999 ; SHEEO,2022 ). Despite this reality,... -
Between precarity and professionalism: the effect of uncertainty on adult educators’ participation in continuing education
Continuous participation in further education activities is considered to be a driving factor for the professionalism of adult educators. However,...
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Avoiding pitfalls in the next International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA): Lessons on financing adult education from Belém
Civil society organisations were well organised in the sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) held in Belém in 2009, and...
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Training design for social inclusion: The impact of sociodemographic factors on immigrant learners in Dutch adult education programs
This study explores the impact of adult basic education programs aimed at enhancing social inclusion for immigrant learners in the Netherlands. Basic...
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Residential Adult Education—Ideas and Antecedents
Learning through life is at the nexus of wider societal debates about the relationship of power over communities, who governs them and how, the role...
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Adult Education, Learning Citizens, and the Lessons of Enliven
The body of international human rights law developed in the wake of the Second World War envisaged adults as citizens, playing an active part in...
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Adult Education as a Pathway to Empowerment: Challenges and Possibilities
This chapter develops a theoretical framework for conceptualising adult education’s role in individual empowerment using a capability approach...
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The connections between citizenship education and mathematics education
The connections between citizenship education and mathematics education have been the focus of theoretical development and attention by educators...
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Researching (multiple) coordination of action in adult education organizations—Theoretical approaches, empirical findings and future perspectives
The paper aims at analyzing how coordination of action is conceptualized and researched in the context of adult education. Selected perspectives from...
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Challenging aspects of Kazakhstan’s trilingual education policy: evidence from a literature review
The research reported in this article explored the implementation of Trilingual Education Policy in Kazakhstan. The authors explain the challenges...
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Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age 'To Open the Immortal Eye'
This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult...