Talk:Adult education

message: Continuing Education implies personal enrichment or community education.  Adult Education in my mind is distinctly different and more more academic.  Adult Education acknowledges that adults learn differently than adolescents, and that includes university students, graduates, migrants with no education or otherwise.  Obviously the US educational system is in need of repair, and the discussion of andragogy vs. pedagogy may appear in the small school movement and school reform debates.  So far, the content and discussion of this page is focused on theory, such as andragogy and self-directed learning.  I would add that Adult Education is more often offered in Adult Schools that operate independently under public unified school districts, as well as Community Based Organizations, Correctional Facilities and other agencies. State and federally funded programs are moving toward more accountability to departments of education, just as K-12 schools are with NCLB mandates.  In California, and much of the western US, public adult education programs host large ESL programs as well as comprehensive Adult Secondary Education programs that offer alternative and independent programs for concurrent high school students and adults who want to earn their GED or high school diploma.  Adult Education also serves older adults and adults with disabilities.  Many adult schools offer competitive hi-tech vocational and career education and are programmed into state employment development department initiatives (Workforce Investment Act).  Parenting, Family and Consumer Awareness is another funded area of adult education.  Burr Guthrie.  
The US Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education cited 2,736,192 learners in the 2002-2003 year.  About 40% were in literacy programs and 60% in basic education or Adult Secondary Education.  There is no shortage of research about adult education in the US. [burr.guthrie@gmail.com]
This page needs vastly more work; as it is it says almost nothing that isn't common knowledge. Commentary on the situation in other nations would be particularly welcome, plus an in-depth examination of specific teaching methods used with children that do not work with adults and vice-versa. 
Also, I feel that the ways in which a person learns new knowlege or skills are highly individual in any case, so it may not mean much to say "kids are taught this way but adults must be taught this way". Should we be discussing university-level teaching as well here? Graduate students are definitely adults, but this may not be quite the same as a 25-year-old waiter who wants to go back and finish gen ed requirements to apply to university. Comments? This is not my field. Jeeves 08:47, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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message: In practice, these are two distinct fields.  The paragraph above starts with a good explanation of the scope of adult education.  Continuing education, on the other hand, is understood as primarily a college and university-based activity.  As a former administrator of a university-based continuing education program, I am confident that adult education is understood to be a different domain of education and training for adults -- one not conducted, by and large, at universities. These should be continued (and each greatly improved) as two separate articles and not merged.  Dwalls (talk) 04:38, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Also  as a former college administrator, I think the Further Education  article is long  enough  to  be a stand-alone. --Kudpung (talk) 13:30, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
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message: The opening of this article could make much more of the diversity of places in which adult education took place. I had some experience of doing adult education when I was a postgraduate student at the University of Lancaster, and there I was told that sometimes, adult education deliberately avoided places that looked too academic to attract people who had been out of education for a long time back into education. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:07, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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message: In recent decades, the principle of lifelong learning has become central in the formulation of educational policies worldwide. SDG4, for example, calls to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”Hager, P. and Beckett, D. 2020. We’re all in this together: new principles of co-present group learning. Paper
commissioned for the UNESCO Futures of Education report. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/
pf0000374089
As economies and societies change, adult education will possibly need to extend far beyond lifelong learning for labor market purposes. Opportunities for career change and reskilling connect to a broader reform of all education systems that emphasizes the creation of multiple, flexible pathways.
International Commission on the Futures of Education 2021: Reimagining our Futures Together. A New Social Contract for Education, UNESCO, Paris.
 It is commonly acknowledged that jobs and the nature of employment can change dramatically over the span of a single individual’s working life. Therefore, lifelong learning also concerns the idea of participation and inclusion of vulnerable groups who are currently often excluded from educational opportunities.Couture, J. C., Grøttvik, R. and Sellar, S. 2020. A profession learning to become: the promise of collaboration
between teacher organizations and academia. Paper commissioned for the UNESCO Futures of
Education report. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000374156 Participation and inclusion go hand-in-hand with emancipatory visions of adult education, which also includes an appreciation of informal learning – the knowledge and capabilities acquired outside formal schooling settings.
International Commission on the Futures of Education 2021: Reimagining our Futures Together. A New Social Contract for Education, UNESCO, Paris.
Lisa Rechelle (talk) 13:56, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
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