New Patterns of Adult Learning
Subtitle: A Six-Country Comparative Study
Contributors: P. B&eacute;langer (Editor); A. Tuijnman (Editor)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: July 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780080430690
Subjects: Adult Education; Education / Teaching; Comparative Education; Adult & Continuing Education; Education; Business & Economics : Education; Education / Adult & Continuing Education; Education / General; Adult learning; Cross-cultural studies
First sentence: Since the introduction by UNESCO and OECD of the idea of lifelong education in the early 1970s, and after nearly three decades of dispersed initiatives, it is now becoming possible to discern more precisely the empirical reality of adult learning, by mapping and analysing the high rates of participation of women and men in adult education and training and tracing the relations between initial and further education.