Full Description
As individuals and societies try to respond to fundamental economic and social transformation, the field of adult learning and education is rapidly getting increased attention and new topics for research on adult learning have emerged. This collection of articles from the International Encyclopedia of Education 3e offers practitioners and researchers in the area of adult learning and education a comprehensive summary of main developments in the field. The 45 articles provide insight into the historical development of the field, its conceptual controversies, domains and provision, perspectives on adult learning, instruction and program planning, outcomes, relationship to economy and society and its status as a field of scholarly study and practice.
Contents
Introduction
Adult Education
Rewriting the History of Adult Education: The Search for Narrative Structures
Lifelong Learning
Adult Learning, Instruction, and Program Planning
Adult Learning
Adult Learning: Philosophical Issues
The Adult Development of Cognition and Learning
Characteristics of Adult Learning
Adult Learning and instruction: Transformative-Learning Perspectives
Adult Learning in a Biographic Perspective
Adult Learning, Instruction and Programme Planning: Insights from Freire
Workplace-Learning Frameworks
Organizational Learning
Informal Learning: A Contested Concept
Program Planning
Domains provisions and participation
Adult Basic Education - A Challenge for Vocational Based Learning
Adult Literacy Education
Citizenship and Immigrant Education
Labor Education
Popular Adult Education
University Adult Continuing Education - the Extramural Tradition Revisited
Community Based Adult Education
Continuing Professional Education: Multiple Stakeholders and Agendas
Displaced Workers, Unemployed, and VET
Museums as Sites of Adult Learning
Learning Cities and Regions
The Age of Learning: Seniors' Learning
HIV Education for Low-Literate People: Transforming Students and Communities through Paulo Freire's Praxis and the Pedagogy of Action
Overview of Lifelong Learning Policies and Systems
Financing of Adult and Lifelong Learning
Provision of Prior Learning Assessment
Portfolio Assessment
Participation in Adult Learning
Barriers to Participation in Adult Education
Perspectives in Adult Education Research
Trends in Workplace Learning Research
Gender Analysis
Class Analysis in Adult Education
Race and Ethnicity in the Field of Adult Education
Adult Learning, Economy, and Society
Modernization Processes and the Changing Functions of Adult Education
The Political Economy of Adult Education
Adult Education and Civil Society
Adult Education and Nation Building
Health and Adult Learning
Globalization and Vocational Education and Training
NGOs and Globalization of Education
Wider Benefits of Adult Learning
Economic Outcomes of Adult Education and Training
