Adult education is concerned not with preparing people for life, but rather with helping people to live more successfully. Thus if there is to be an overarching function of the adult education enterprise, it is to assist adults to increase competence, or negotiate transitions, in their social roles worker, parent, retiree etc. The essay will conclude with a re-examination of our working definition, and with recommendations on possible remedies for the problems described.
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Once more, there is an opportunity for readers to gain a better understanding of questions related to gender and adult learning from researchers deeply involved in this specific field of adult education. The notion of informal learning has already been treated as a chapter in the book, but it becomes central and relevant in this new book with the growing complexity of our society. Their introduction covers the essential concepts of gender and informal learning. The contributors enlighten the debate with their geographical diversity all over Europe, but also with their diverse theoretical systems of references to the diverse social contexts that have been analysed.
Academic journal article Academy of Educational Leadership Journal. Much attention has been given to exploration of adult learners since the term andragogy was first used by Kapp in Reichman, and coined by Knowles in describing self-directed learning Knowles, A range of literature underscoring the international recognition of the benefits of lifelong learning exists, and a growing interest is noted in research that identifies attributes, needs, experiences, perceptions, challenges, and enrollment patterns of males and females in nontraditional tertiary programs, however, a consensus about the role of gender in adult learning has not emerged.
With the global economic crisis, European adult education discourse has been overwhelmed with the issues of employability and there is a growing tendency for learning to be reduced to skills development, which is already evident in the recent EU documents. Emancipatory vision of adult education seems to be forgotten or used as a decoration to competitiveness and economic growth. In spite of long lasting resistance toward gender issues, since the Network has been successful in gathering researchers interested in problematization of gender in adult education and learning, and in keeping debates alive and provocative.
Study-Unit Description. Study at UM. Gender, and ethnicity are two of the main forms of social difference discussed in the adult education field, apart from social class tackled elsewhere.
In general, the illiteracy problem among women has not received adequate academic attention in India. In general, programme evaluation research dominates the field of adult education research in India and elsewhere Patel A review of 88 evaluation studies conducted by various research institutions and agencies in India revealed that only two of them focused specifically on women.
Their work identifies themes in the literature and moves the reader through the theoretical to the practical and concludes with a perspective about what we still need to learn. This book builds on the work of scholars such as Carol Gilligan e. The authors identified four purposes for writing Women as Learners including: assembling in one place knowledge about women and their learning; placing women's learning experiences in the contexts where women live; promoting an understanding of women's diversity; and finally to make recommendations, on the basis of critical appraisal of the existing literature, for future research and practice.
The gender issue is visible in research in the Educational Sciences, but it mainly concerns formal education and children. The purpose of this ESREA network is to offer an opportunity for researchers interested in adult education and gender topics from all over Europe to enhance their understanding and their reflections within an international perspective. The Network performs a crucial role in giving visibility and developing intellectual debates on the role of gender in adult education.