Adult Learning and Literacy in the United Kingdom

Autor/inn/en	Hamilton, Mary; Merrifield, Juliet
Titel	Adult Learning and Literacy in the United Kingdom
Quelle	(1999), (57 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Community Programs; Adult Learning; Foreign Countries; Adult Literacy; Adult Educators; Comparative Analysis; Volunteers; Educational Finance; Financial Support; Accountability; Academic Achievement; Academic Standards; Adult Basic Education; Adult Education; United Kingdom; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Ausland; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Freiwilliger; Bildungsfonds; Finanzielle Förderung; Verantwortung; Schulleistung; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Großbritannien; USA
Abstract	In this chapter the authors' primary aim is to describe the general workings of the system of adult literacy and learning as it exists in the United Kingdom today. To better illuminate that system, they take a little time delving into its past--that is, showing how it arrived at its current state of operation. A secondary aim is to compare and contrast aspects of the U.K. system with that in the United States, which has experienced shifts in practice, similar to those just described, from a patchwork of community programs relying on volunteers, diverse institutions, and varied funding streams to ever-greater moves toward national accountability, documented performance, and systematic standards. In conducting this analysis, they hope to broaden the reader's understanding of the two systems as well as their own. (Contains 16 notes.) [Chapter 7 in: Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy. Volume 1; copublished with Jossey-Bass, Inc.; see ED436673.] (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10