Education for Adults Volume 1 Adult Learning and Education [Paperback]

The nature of adult education at individual, group and community levels is the concern of this book. Definitions and patterns of adult learning are critically assessed in both this country and abroad, and the processes involved considered in detail. Both case studies and thematic articles have been included and are selected to illustrate the breadth of the field along a number of areas: formal, non-formal and informal education; face-to-face and distance education; from basic levels of education to higher education; from highly deterministic to more open or self-directed forms of education. It is felt that the study and practice of the education of adults can be best advanced by the adoption of such a broad view.

Preface. Introduction. Part 1: Definitions and Patterns1.1 Adult Education and the Education of Adults Brian Groombridge1.2 Patterns of Adult Education in East Europe Jindra Kulich. 1.3 Adult Education in the Third World Lalage Bown. Part 2: Processes2.1 Andragogy: An Emerging Technology for Adult Learning Malcom Knowles2.2 The Learning Transaction Roby Kidd2.3 Learning Situations of Educational Situations? Kenneth Lawson 2.4 Adult Learning and Industrial Training Mike Smith2.5 The Nature and Process of Adult Development Paula Allman2.6 A Critical Theory of Adult Learning and Education Jack MezirowPart 3: Individual Learning3.1 Self-planned Learning and Major Personal Change Allen Tough3.2 The Individual Adult Learner Michael Moore3.3 Higher Education: School for Independent Study John Stephenson3.4 Radio ECCA: A Distance Learning System in the Canary Islands Luis Espina CepedaPart 4: Group Learning 4.1 The Process of the Encounter Group Carl Rogers4.2 Thl£‹