Adult education takes many forms: skills training, professional development, personal development, leisure activities, and programs for ethnic groups, the elderly, and specially targeted groups. There are many organizations involved in providing these services, such as volunteer organizations, universities, colleges, business, public school boards, and governments. This book is intended as a contribution to the study and practice of adult education in Canada.

It is intended mainly for beginning students at universities and colleges, but practitioners and laypersons will find the selections stimulating and useful. The contributors are researchers and practitioners from all walks of life. They provide the reader with current research, stimulating thoughts, and insightful commentary.

Section I: Foundations of Adult Education provides the reader with a basic understanding of the field in terms of definition, history, philosophy, theory building, and learning theory.

Section II: The Practice of Adult Education presents some of the skills and information required of practitioners. The reader is introduced to needs assessment, program planning, facilitating adult learning, and prior learning assessment.

Section III: Issues in Adult Education introduces current issues of concern to adult education practitioners and researchers such topics as UNESCO, access in adult education, labour education, technical-vocational education, the professionalization of adult educators in Quebec, women, distance education, First Nations, and the purpose of education in a civil society.

Editors

Deo H. Poonwassie

University of Manitoba

Anne Poonwassie

University of Manitoba

Unit 1: THE FOUNDATIONS OF ADULT EDUCATION

• 1. The Metamorphoses of Andragogy, James A. Draper
• 2. Stages in the Development of Canadian Adult Education, Gordon Selman
• 3. Philosophical Considerations, Mark Selman
• 4. Theory Building in Adult Education: Questioning Our Grasp of the Obvious, Donovan Plumb and Michael R. Welton
• 5. Perspectives and Theories of Adult Learning, Karen M. Magro

Unit 2: THE PRACTICE OF ADULT EDUCATION

• 6. Needs Assessment, Thomas J. Sork
• 7. Program Planning in Adult Education, Atlanta Sloane-Seale
• 8. University Continuing Education: Traditions and Transitions, Anne Percival
• 9. Facilitating Adult Education: A Practitioners Perspective, Anne Poonwassie
• 10. Prior Learning Assessment: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Angelina T. Wong
• 11. Adult Education in the Community Colleges, Anthony Bos
• 12. A UNESCO View of Adult Education and Civil Society, Marshall W. Conley and Elisabeth Barot

Unit 3: ISSUES IN ADULT EDUCATION

• 13. The Issue of Access in Adult Education: Privilege and Possibility, Dianne L. Conrad
• 14. Labour Education in Canada, Bruce Spencer
• 15. Technical-Vocational Education and Training, David N. Wilson
• 16. The Issue of Professionalization for Adult Educators in Quebec, Paul Bouchard
• 17. Women's Empowerment and Adult Education, Margot Morrish and Nancy Buchanan
• 18. Adult Education in First Nations Communities: Starting with the People, Deo H. Poonwassie
• 19. Distance Education for Adults, Walter Archer
• 20. Lifelong Learning, Voluntary Action, and Civil Society, Alan M. Thomas

Instructor's Manual

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