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Peer reviewedBoshier, Rogier; Collins, John B. – Adult Education Quarterly, 1985
In this study, Education Participation Scale data from 13,442 learners in Africa, Asia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States were combined and subjected to a cluster analysis designed to examine the extent to which Houle's typology fitted the phenomenological reality that exists within adult education participants. Results are described.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Classification
Direct linkBoshier, Roger; Huang, Yan; Song, Qihui; Song, Lei – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2006
In Western countries, women and men, young and old, enroll in adult education for different reasons. This is even more the case in China. This study helps Shanghai program planners better appreciate learners by understanding how motivational orientations vary as a function of gender and age. The Chinese version of the Education Participation Scale…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Females, Stimulation
