Author: Chris Duke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0429796218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1987 and now with an updated preface, this book distils and reflects upon major issues confronting adult educators worldwide. Theories, practices and systems of adult education unify the contradictions between different traditions and phases, drawing on the distinctive perspective offered by the Chinese setting and experience of the Shanghai Adult Education Research Society on which the book is based.
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 6639
ISBN-13: 0429771673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Against a background of profound wordwide social and economic change, the purpose of schooling and the place of learning in our everyday lives, educational institutions are opening up to those traditionally deprived of the opportunity. These books, originally published between 1979 and 1992 with many including global case studies reflect upon major issues confronting adult educators worldwide and discuss the role of adult education in social and community action; examine the relationship between class and adult education; look at the concept of culture and the transmission of cultural values in relations to adult education; evaluate the role of adult education in reducing unemployment.
Author: Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bruce Fuller
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1992-04-20
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Political actors within the modern state--in both the West and the Third World--argue that more schooling can provide remedies for a variety of economic and social ills. But what is the state's actual efficacy in sparking demands for, and constructing effective forms of, mass schooling? Is the state really an effective agent relative to educational demands originating from other institutions: competing economic interests, the family, and the school institution itself? Under what institutional conditions does school expansion spur economic growth and change? Since the 1960s, institutional and economic theorists have advanced responses to these important issues from three theoretical perspectives: functionalist human capital, class conflict, and world institution frameworks. This volume reviews historical work on these critical issues, conducted over the past two decades in the United States, Europe, and the Third World. Review chapters are complemented by reports of new findings--authored by a novel array of international economists, sociologists, and political analysts pulled together for this unusual initiative. Following a review chapter on the state's role in boosting mass schooling and economic change, Part 1 focuses on the historical origins of literacy and schooling. Part 2 reports original work on national economic effects of school expansion, drawing on experiences from both industrialized and developing economies. Part 3 turns to the issue of how central states attempt to craft the supply of, and manipulate popular demand for, schooling. Practical implications are discussed throughout. Top researchers have gathered an abundance of evidence, providing a rich reference volume for scholars and social policy makers alike.
Author: Henry M. Levin
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recurrent Education - the regular return of adults to training throughout their lives - could bring a host of benefits, from improved industrial productivity to reduced unemployment and broader participation in social, cultural and political life. Yet who or what would finance it? The papers in this volume, growing out of a conference co-sponsored by the OECD, draw on a range of ideas and experiences from America and Europe to consider what form a comprehensive system of recurrent education would take.
Author: Beverly Lindsay
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-23
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1135399425
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.