Description

The Foundations of Adult Education in Canada is an essential textbook for practitioners and students of adult education. This is a full-length examination of the nature and scope of adult education as it has evolved in Canada over the past 150 years, with particular emphasis on recent experiences.

The second edition updates much material in the book, providing coverage of developments during the nineties. In addition it includes three entirely new chapters: on adult education in Quebec; on women and adult education; and on the future prospects of the field. There is expanded treatment of several topics, including education in the labour movement, the impact of technological developments and the expansion of distance education, among others.

Table of Contents

1. Terms and Functions

• Naming the Enterprise
• Parallel or Overlapping Terms
• Related Terms
• Some General Methodological Distinctions
• The Relationship of the Learner to Educational Resources
• The Functions of Adult Education

2. Adult Education in English-Speaking Canada

• External Influences
• Canadian Responses to the Canadian Context
• Stages in the Development of Adult Education in English-speaking Canada
• The Case of Adult Education in the Labour Movement: Pre-1970

3. Adult Education in Quebec

• External Influences
• The Quebec Context
• The Development of Adult Education in Quebec

4. Women and Adult Education

• Significance and Importance of Women in the Adult Education Movement

5. Participation, Participants and Providers

• The Interest in Adult Learning
• Three Central Ideas to Participation
• The Idea of Participation
• The Idea of Participants
• The Idea of Providers

6. Elements of Design in Programs

• The Concept of Program
• Program Planning
• Houle's Fundamental System
• Elements of Design in Programs
• The Unsettled Social Circumstances: Saskatchewan College System
• The Vision and the Champion: Adelaide Hoodless and the Women's Institute
• The Sponsorship: The Carnegie Corporation of New York
• The Philosophical Basis: Education for Co-operative Housing
• The Learning Tradition: The Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs
• The Collaboration: The Open Learning Agency of B.C.
• The Learners: Elderhostels
• The Instructor: Frontier College
• The Learning Environment: Residential and Native Education Centre
• The Learning Process: The Lake Cowichan Food Bank
• The Learning Materials: Citizens' Forum Study Guides
• The Instructional Technology: Image Projection
• Speculation on Future Elements

7. Public Policy Formation

• The Meaning of Public Policy
• Education and the State
• Distinction between Learning and Education
• Analytical Framework for Public Policy Formation
• Public Policy Consequences
• Four Modes of Government Response to Demands for Learning
• Adult Literacy: A Case Study in Public Policy
• International Calls for Public Policy

8. Public Policy Relating to Adult Education

• Federal Government Policy Initiatives
• Adult Education Policy in the Provinces and Territories
• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Manitoba
• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland
• Nova Scotia
• Ontario
• Prince Edward Island
• Quebec
• Saskatchewan
• The Yukon and the Northwest Territories
• International Experience

9. Adult Education as Discipline and Vocation

• The Emergence of a Sense of Vocation
• The 1950s: Pivotal Decade
• Since the Fifties: Towards Professionalism
• What Kind of Profession?

10. Philosophical Considerations

• The Functions of Adult Education
• Philosophical Considerations

11. The Contemporary Scene and Future Prospects

• Why 1970 as Starting Point?
• The Development of the Field of Adult Education
• Adult Education in the Labour Movement
• Canadian Adult Education and the International Community
• Disparate Forces in the Field