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Preece, Julia – 1999
This book examines one British university continuing education department's involvement with those adults who are most on the margins of formal education. The following are among the topics considered in Chapters 1-9: the wider political context of university continuing education and the emerging political agenda for widening participation in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Grabill, Jeffrey T. – 2001
The community literacy program of Western District Adult Basic Education in Georgia was examined to demonstrate how the meaning and value of literacy is a function of specific local institutions. The goal of the examination was to theorize literacy by constructing a localized framework for understanding literacy within a given institution in order…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs