This article focus on what is and isn't 'new' in the most recent European Union (EU) key policy document for Adult Learning (AL), because it claims (in its own title) that it will constitute a basis for a 'new' agenda. As this document has been much disseminated to Member States, we think it is important to analyse its evidence of the 'new'…

This study focused on drawing a picture of the dynamics and educational experiences of U.S. Army junior-enlisted soldiers in the rank of specialist in the RA. Those soldiers are eligible to participate in the U.S. Army's VolEd Program available worldwide. According to Gleiman and Zacharakis (2016): The military relies on continuing professional…

The article presents a retrospective analysis of adult learning development in Poland in the 20th century. Based on the study and analysis of historical and pedagogical literature, normative documents of the official bodies of Polish government, the periodical press of the 20th century, several stages of adult learning development, in the…

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects the learning process for adult learners, resulting in a higher dropout rate than for students who have not experienced similar stress (Kerka, 2002; Smyth, Hockemeyer, Heron, Wonderlich, & Pennebaker, 2008). The purpose of the current qualitative phenomenological study was to identify, explore, and…

This paper presents data on the vocational education and training (VET) in Denmark. VET plays a key role in the Danish strategy for lifelong learning and meeting the challenges of globalisation and technological change. The Danish education and training system comprises a mainstream system providing qualifications at all levels, from compulsory…

A new Labour government was elected in May 1997 and wasted no time in signalling its enthusiasm for the education of adults. Secretary of State for Education and Employment David Blunkett gave his first speech in office at the launch of Adult Learners' Week 1997 and announced the creation of a National Advisory Group for Continuing Education and…

THIS BOOK PRESENTS SOME IDEAS THAT CONSTITUTE A SUPPORTING STRUCTURE FOR AN EFFECTIVE PROGRAM OF ADULT EDUCATION IN A FREE SOCIETY. IT BEGINS WITH AN OVERVIEW OF THE ADULT, HIS SOCIETY, AND ADULT EDUCATION, A DISCUSSION OF GOALS AND STRUCTURE FOR ADULT EDUCATION, AND SPECIFIC MEANINGS OF THE TERM--AS A SYSTEMATICALLY ORGANIZED PROGRAM, AS RANDOM…

This document, a presentation made at the Second Career Education National Forum, discusses concepts related to increasing the awareness and importance of lifelong education. Three kinds of education--formal, informal, and non-formal--are defined and described in relation to the need for non-restrictive educational settings and attitudes which…

Lifelong learning in Japan involves various cultural and/or sporting activities for personal enjoyment rather than for individual or national economic benefit. Currently the study of karaoke at a variety of public and private organizations is very popular among older Japanese and housewives. This article explores the emergence of karaoke as a…

This theoretical paper is the concluding part of an extensive two-part examination of the problem of educating adult educators. The first part dealt with the relationship of adult education to other disciplines. This part establishes a framework for classifying areas of needed research in the field of adult education. The framework used here is…

Recurrent education, as developed in the past four or five years in a number of European countries, is seen as a process of formal, full-time, for credit instruction for adults beyond the age of compulsory schooling in which participation was supposed to take place during intermittent periods throughout the adult working life-span. This would…

The author summarizes a conference on learning opportunities for older people by discussing six issues: (1) perspectives of older people and service providers; (2) categorization of older learners; (3) learning needs of older people; (4) participation rates; (5) government policies; and (6) curriculum concerns. (SK)

The operational criteria for a center for continuing education is examined in the context of the center's mission, as the mission is described and developed from specified definitions of adult education, further education, and continuing, lifelong education. (AG)

These four essays are the final papers of staff members of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults; their theme is that liberal education embodies a concern for man rather than things. James B. Whipple proposes a concept of "relational education," which aims to help the professional person relate his career to the rest of human…

This book explores the imperatives of a mass system of higher education through data drawn from a British study of access- and foundation-year students and their teachers. Chapter 1 introduces the book's purposes: to describe learning in postcompulsory education and reclamation of lifelong learning as a sociopolitical project in which universities…