Questions assumptions of contractualism: education as a private commodity, enlightened self-interest, specifiability of outcomes, individualistic view of humanity, client awareness of best interests. Quality of a contractualist approach may be diminished through fragmentation, inflexibility, orthodoxy, situationalism, inequality, or…

Describes the restructuring of the Centre for Continuing Education and the University of Auckland within the context of political ideology, developments in New Zealand universities, and the historical role of adult and continuing education. Concludes that strategic neglect enabled external forces to drive policy and practice toward neoliberal…