Canadian Adult Education: Still a Movement

Autor/in	Nesbit, Tom
Titel	Canadian Adult Education: Still a Movement
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 37 (2011) 1, (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0318-9090
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Learning Activities; Colleges; Adult Education; Lifelong Learning; Foreign Countries; Adult Educators; Trend Analysis; Cooperation; Values; Rewards; Higher Education; Adult Learning; Social Action; Social Change; College Role; Continuing Education; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernaktivität; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Ausland; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Trendanalyse; Co-operation; Kooperation; Wertbegriff; Reward; Belohnung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Adulte education; Soziales Handeln; Sozialer Wandel; Weiterbildung; Kanada
Abstract	Writing recently in this journal, two of Canada's veteran adult educators contemplated the "death" of the Canadian adult education movement. I disagree and argue that adult education in Canada is as vital an activity as ever and one that still fully justifies being called a movement. Specifically, Selman and Selman (2009) list five trends that they assert have brought about the adult education movement's demise: a general retreat from collaborative activities and collective action; a concern about "missionary" activities; the structure, values, and rewards within universities and other institutions of higher education; a shift toward "lifelong learning" as an organizing concept; and the movement somehow becoming less Canadian. In this paper, I consider each trend in some detail and provide examples to counter the Selmans' analysis. Instead, I show that adult education continues to be a critical and vital movement in Canadian society and one very far from dead. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Canadian Association for University Continuing Education. c/o CAUCE Secretariat at Centre for Continuing and Distance Education, 475 Williams Building, 221 Cumberland Avenue North, Saskatoon, SK S7N 1M3, Canada. Tel: 306-966-5582; Fax: 306-966-5590; e-mail: cauce.secretariat@usask.ca; Web site: http://www.extension.usask.ca/cjuce; Web site: http://www.extension.usask.ca/cjuce/eng/contentXissue.html
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Update	2017/4/10