Full Description
The nature of adult education at individual, group and community levels is the concern of this book. Definitions and patterns of adult learning are critically assessed in both this country and abroad, and the processes involved considered in detail. Both case studies and thematic articles have been included and are selected to illustrate the breadth of the field along a number of areas: formal, non-formal and informal education; face-to-face and distance education; from basic levels of education to higher education; from highly deterministic to more 'open' or self-directed forms of education. It is felt that the study and practice of the education of adults can be best advanced by the adoption of such a broad view.
Contents
1: Definitions and Patterns; 1.1: Adult Education and the Education of Adults; 1.2: Patterns of Adult Education in East Europe; 1.3: Adult Education in the Third World; 2: Processes; 2.1: Andragogy: an Emerging Technology for Adult Learning; 2.2: The Learning Transaction; 2.3: Learning Situations or Educational Situations?; 2.4: Adult Learning and Industrial Training; 2.5: The Nature and Process of Adult Development; 2.6: A Critical Theory of Adult Learning and Education; 3: Individual Learning; 3.1: Self-Planned Learning and Major Personal Change; 3.2: The Individual Adult Learner; 3.3: Higher Education: School for Independent Study; 3.4: Radio ECCA: A Distance Learning System in the Canary Islands; 4: Group Learning; 4.1: The Process of the Encounter Group; 4.2: The Group-Centered Leader; 4.3: Observing, Recording and Evaluating; 5: Community Learning; 5.1: Community; 5.2: Adult Education and Community Action; 5.3: Action Learning and the Inner City; 5.4: Education and Conscientização
