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Marxism and Adult Education
The chapter begins with a review of how the Marxist tradition has been used in adult education scholarship. It provides a general framework for, or...
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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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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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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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The effect of adult education on health-related behaviours
Unhealthy behaviours continue to be pervasive and lead to premature death worldwide. According to previous research, school education appears to be...
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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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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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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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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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Educating Rita’s Grandchildren: Formal Adult Education in the Shadow of Educational Expansion
Formal adult education (FAE) has become a frequently used category within cross-country comparative research on adult learning. It refers to adults...
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Formation of Adult Learning Systems in Central Europe
This book explores the formation and development of the cross-national patterns of adult learning systems between 1989 and 2019 in four Central...
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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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Persistence in Adult Education in Utah: Factors and Frameworks to Foster Success
In a democratic global society, access to basic education for all students includes those students who stop out as children but return to their...
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Inclusion in Teaching and Learning: An Adult Education Perspective
This study explored teaching practices that may enhance inclusive teaching and learning in public adult education and training institutions. This...
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A historical review of global efforts on adult literacy education, with particular reference to Tanzania
Literacy is a fundamental aspect of development and a step towards freedom and liberation from socio-economic constraints, because it enables all...
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Legacies and Impact of the Shropshire Adult College (Part I) and the Future of Residential Adult Education and Its Significance (Part II)
This final chapter brings together some of the themes that have emerged throughout this book and examines the legacy and impact of the College and...
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Financing adult learning and education (ALE) now and in future
This article submits that while the world continues to view education as a human right, it also persists in depriving an important section of it –...
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Work and Learning in the Adult Education Sector: A Cross Country Comparative View
The adult learning sector is particularly diverse. Evidence on how its employees access workplace learning is very limited. Focussing on learning by...
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The Dynamic Landscape of Adult Education in Singapore
The evolution of adult education in Singapore mirrors this young nation’s growth from a third world to a first world nation; a nation that relies on...
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Educating Rita’s Grandchildren: Formal Adult Education in the Shadow of Educational Expansion
Formal adult education (FAE) has become a frequently used category within cross-country comparative research on adult learning. It refers to adults...