Routledge Library Editions: Adult Education
About the Book Series
Against a background of profound wordwide social and economic change, the concept of lifelong learning has come increasingly into the public eye. As educators and policy-makers rethink the meaning of education, the purpose of schooling and the place of learning in our everyday lives, educational institutions are opening up to those traditionally deprived of the opportunity. The books in this set, originally published between 1979 and 1992 with many including global case studies reflect upon major issues confronting adult educators worldwide and
- discuss the role of adult education in social and community action
- examine the relationship between class and adult education
- look at the concept of culture and the transmission of cultural values in relations to adult education
- evaluate the role of adult education in reducing unemployment
- case studies of adult education programmes in Afria, Asia and Latin America.
Early Innovators in Adult Education
1st Edition
By Huey B. Long
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1991 this book analyses the input of those who made important contributions to the education of adults in the USA between 1607 and 1920. Examining the historical roots of adult education the book explores commonalities among innovators such as Cotton Mather, Benjamin ...
Education for Young Adults: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Evans, Ian Haffenden
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1991, this book gives international coverage of opportunities in youth development and education from a unique comparative angle. The book is split into two parts: the first focusses on the former USSR, Europe and North America, setting the issues within the wider context of...
Educational Gerontology: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Glendenning
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1985, this book was the first book in the UK to provide an overview of educational gerontology and examine the needs for educational opportunities for older adults. The book draws on developments and experience from the UK, Denmark and the USA and should be of interest ...
Grassroots Approaches to Combatting Poverty Through Adult Education: Supplement to Adult Education and Development No. 34/1990
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Duke
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1990 this supplement to No. 34 (1990) of the journal Adult Education, discusses the relationship between adult education and development. All the studies included in it focus on the reduction of poverty.The majority of the studies cover Africa and South Asia, but there...
Learning Networks in Adult Education: Non-formal Education on a Housing Estate
1st Edition
By Paul Fordham, Geoff Poulton, Lawrence Randle
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1979, this book reports on a 3 year action research programme (The New Communities Project) which aimed in increase working-class participation in adult education. Basing their argument on the work of the Project, the authors contend that adult education must begin with the ...
Lifelong Education and International Relations
1st Edition
By Ettore Gelpi
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1985, this book argues that lifelong education has a vital part to play in fostering international political understanding. It also demonstrates how educational planners can use the concept of lifelong education to deal with some of the contradictions inherent in much of the...
New Perspectives on the Education of Adults in the United States
1st Edition
By Huey B. Long
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1987 this book addresses practical issues in the education of adults in the USA but also encompasses theoretical and abstract ideas. There are chapters on 20th century initiatives in American adult education as well as education of the elderly and adult literacy....
Post-Education Society: Recognising Adults as Learners
1st Edition
By Norman Evans
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1985, this book argues that to make sense any attempt to improve the situation must take account of what we now know about adult growth and development, accepting as an operational imperative that it is as problematic and turbulent as childhood. The book claims that since ...
Self-direction in Adult Learning: Perspectives on Theory, Research and Practice
1st Edition
By Ralph G. Brockett, Roger Hiemstra
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1991, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive synthesis of developments, issues and practices related to a self-direction in learning. it presents strategies for facilitating self-directed learning as an instructional method and for enhancing learner ...
Theory and Practice in the Study of Adult Education: The Epistemological Debate
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry P. Bright
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1989, this book presents a variety of perspectives on the definition of knowledge and of adult education, by leading authors and practitioners in the study of adult education in the UK and USA. This collection of different and often contradictory views makes a detailed ...
Towards a History of Adult Education in America: The Search for a Unifying Principle
1st Edition
By Harold W. Stubblefield
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1988 this book examines the work of the first generation adult education theorists and the traditions that their work helped establish. They debated the issues, aims and content of adult education programmes and began to explore the often difficult relationship between ...
Training Educators of Adults: The Theory and Practice of Graduate Adult Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Brookfield
August 18, 2020
Originally published in 1988, this book provides perspective on conceptualisations of adult education in the late 20th century, the range of providing agencies and the varying orientations towards defining the role of the adult educator. It draws together and contextualises a selection of the most ...