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Major content areas of adult education include human resource development, continuing professional education, remedial or basic skills education, recreational or leisure learning, citizenship, and technology.

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We need to break out of our parallel existence and find ways to appreciate and embrace the field's variety.

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One way of embracing marginality is to seek more integration across the field and appreciate its multidisciplinary nature.

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May create a narrowly conceived field of practice that excludes and marginalizes diverse voices and approached to adult education.

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Helps move the field from a marginal status to one of social influence.

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- Independent adult education organizations
- Educational Institutions
- Quasieducational Organizations
- Noneducational organizations

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The various types of adult education are weakly threaded together to form a "profession"of adult education that has become highly fragmented and decentralized.

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Over humanistic tradition, value of lifelong learning, social and institutional marginalization, commitment to social justice, promotion of learner autonomy, impact of social context on learning, constructivism, influence of technology, etc....

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                                 Professionalization could be...

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                                 Professionalization could be...

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           Multiple professional identities within Adult Education

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           Multiple professional identities within Adult Education

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The future of adult and continuing education within a global context

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The future of adult and continuing education within a global context

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The diversity of adult learning venues and collective endeavors

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The diversity of adult learning venues and collective endeavors

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Adult and Continuing Education as a Field of Practice

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Adult and Continuing Education as a Field of Practice

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The Creation of Open Exchanges of Knowledge, Theory and Practice

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The Creation of Open Exchanges of Knowledge, Theory and Practice

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The centrality of the adult learner and adult learning

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The centrality of the adult learner and adult learning

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1) Basic overview of the field
2) Beyond an introduction to more nuanced analyses of the issues that are meaningful to professionals in the field.
3) Identidy the state of research within Adult and Continuing Education and to note primary trends that will emerge over the next 10 years.

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                                             Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education

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                                             Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education

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Questions such fundamental concepts as truth, theory, reality, knowledge and power.

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Needs for clarifying concepts, arguments, and policy statements used

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Education as a force for achieving radical social change derives from radical movements anarchism, marxism, socialism, left-wing freudianism, critical theory and radical feminism.

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All about freedom and autonomy, trust, active cooperation and participation, and self-directed learning.

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Emphasizes such concepts as control, behavioral modification, learning through reinforcement, and management by objectives.

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Relationship between education and society, experience-centered, vocational, and democratic education.

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Liberal learning, organized knowledge and the development of the intellectual powers of the mind.

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It emphasis on clarity, purpose, criticism, and legitimation remains important.

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Aids leaders and teachers to become more rational and critical in their thinking and acting.

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Inspires one's activities, and gives direction to practice. It has the power to enable individuals to better understand and appreciate the activities of everyday life.

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Raises questions about what we do and why we do it, and goes beyond individual cases to treat questions of a general nature.

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Raises questions about common opinions and practices and demonstrates that the common sense view of things could not always be trusted.

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Theory without practice leads to an empty idealism, and action without philosophical reflection leads to a mindless activism.

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Attempt to explore the various philosophical approaches to adult education.

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Introduction: Philosophy of Adult Education

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Introduction: Philosophy of Adult Education

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Elias & Merriam

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Recognize universities effort

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Promote productivity

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Goal is education related to citizenship responsabilities in a democracy.

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Goal is adult basic educational programs (ex. teaching adults how to read)

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Goal is to develop effective relationship, self-esteem

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Goal is productivity, organization effectiveness

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Goal to be an educated person. Knowledge is valued for its own sake.

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Most practitioners in adult education are so caught up in the everyday concerns of getting the job done that they rarely consider what they ultimately hope to accomplish.

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Merriam & Brockett

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They define Adult Education as: Activities intentionally designed for the purpose of bringing about learning among those whose age, social roles, or self-perception define them as adults. 

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They define Adult Education as: Activities intentionally designed for the purpose of bringing about learning among those whose age, social roles, or self-perception define them as adults. 

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Sharan B. Merriam and Ralph G. Brockett

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1. The work of certain institution and organizations.
2. A special kind of relationship
3. A profession or scientific discipline
4. Stemming from a historical identification with spontaneous social movements.
5. Distinct from other kinds of education by its goals and functions.

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What is adult education? Is adult education a practice or a program? A methodology or an organization? A process or a profession?

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What is adult education? Is adult education a practice or a program? A methodology or an organization? A process or a profession?

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(Encyclopedia of Informal Learning)