New Patterns of Adult Learning
Subtitle: A Six-Country Comparative Study
Contributors: P. B&eacute;langer (Editor); A. Tuijnman (Editor)
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: July 1, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780080430690
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.