Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
Adult and Continuing Education
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Beyond the undergraduate and graduate levels, education has traditionally ceased when students enter the workforce as professionals in their respective fields. However, recent trends in education have found that adult students beyond the traditional university age often benefit greatly from returning...
by Alan Tuckett
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
This book is a tribute to a leading researcher in participation studies, as well as a look back to the lessons to be drawn from past struggles to secure greater equity for marginalised groups, and forward to the social, political and educational policy challenges facing providers, administrators,...
Transnational Migration, Social Inclusion, and Adult Education
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 146
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
As a result of transnational migration, many countries are becoming increasingly ethnoculturally diverse, creating both new opportunities and challenges for practices of adult education. This volume examines the changing nature of adult education in the age of increased transnational migration and:
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by Ralf St Clair
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Why does reading and writing matter in modern societies? How do we know adult literacy education does any good? Why Literacy Matters pulls together a wide range of evidence to build a powerful and convincing argument about why literacy matters to all of us. St Clair explains that we can look at literacy...
by Jay Derrick, Ursula Howard, John Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Remaking Adult Learning provides an exciting and innovative addition to the literature on adult learning. Charting challenges and successes in the sector, it illustrates how taking part in well thought-out programmes can have a positive and sometimes life-saving impact on people’s lives. While grounded...
by Fiona Aldridge, Alan Tuckett
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
The NIACE adult participation survey for 2010 shows a sea change. After years of falling numbers, and an ever-widening gulf between the learning-rich and the learning-poor, there was an upturn in the proportion of adults engaged in learning and in the number expecting to take part in the future. Current...
Continuing Higher Education and Lifelong Learning
An international comparative study on structures, organisation and provisions
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
Anke Hanft and Michaela Knust The present study examines and compares the structure and organisation of c- tinuing higher education in six countries: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, the UK and the USA. The focus is not just on current continuing education provisions at higher education institutions...
Ecojustice Adult Education: Theory and Practice in the Cultivation of the Cultural Commons
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 153
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
As ecological issues increase and concern worldwide is mounting about the changing nature of work and cultural life, the field of adult education must respond. Adult education holds much potential for its ability to highlight cultural knowledge, promote change, and maximize the capacity of adults...
Reimaging Doctoral Education as Adult Education
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 147
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
This volume looks at graduate education, specifically the doctorate, through the lens of adult education practice. Students in doctoral programs are, after all, adults. Building on principles of adult learning, the authors provide examples of academic excellence achieved through the incorporation...
Contexts, Practices and Challenges: Critical Insights from Continuing Professional Education
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 151
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Lifelong learning has become essential not only for professionals, but also for those they serve. Continuing professional education (CPE), an umbrella term used to describe the continuum of formal, nonformal, and informal learning opportunities that enable practicing professionals to continue to learn...
Learning Cities for Adult Learners
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 145
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Learning cities call for a connection of adult education to elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions along with vocational and corporate workspaces.
This volume considers how “learning cities for adult learners” could be created in America that promote lifelong learning and...
by Carrie Birch
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This is a book about connections between social and educational inequalities in the UK. It draws on empirical research into how these inequalities impact on lives, particularly those of adults who, having left school with few or no qualifications, are likely to suffer social exclusion. Through life...
by Fiona Aldridge, Alan Tuckett
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The key message of the annual NIACE Survey on Adult Participation for 2011 is that recession is bad for lifelong learning for anyone over the age of 25. The survey highlights the central importance of workplaces as sites of adult learning - and of the challenges posed to a learning society when opportunities...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
Throughout Europe, where refugee, migrant and minority ethnic communities are an increasingly integral part of the social, political, economic and cultural identity of most large cities, the need to develop relevant, accessible provision for adult learners from these communities has never been greater....