Through an overview and analysis of the major national education and adult education policies, this paper endeavours to present the driving forces of the development of contemporary Chinese adult education, to identify and examine the highlights of current practices, and to discuss future developments. Questions for exploring and informing the…

Lifelong learning for all is a key priority for the International Council for Adult Education and should be for national governments across the world. In order to make this a reality, policies need to be developed based on the concept of education as a human right. The policy framework in Ireland is based on three key principles, Equality,…

This paper starts with the founding of UNESCO and the fundamental belief that humanitarian, social and political deficits in given societies can be corrected by means of education. The history of the UNESCO International Conferences on Adult Education (Elsinore, Montreal, Tokyo, Paris and Hamburg, 1949-1997) demonstrates the changes in perceptions…

Within Ethiopia's overall development strategy, the Integrated Women's Empowerment Programme (IWEP) aims to develop, test and implement a comprehensive nationwide approach to empower women and their households in selected areas of all regions/national states of Ethiopia. The programme provides functional literacy education and livelihood skills…

Outlines general issues for Australian prison education and training, issues by specific populations (unemployed, recividists, aboriginal people, women), and issues by individual state and territory. (SK)

Soon after remnants of the Long March reached Yan'an, the Communist Party established adult and higher education institutions. K'angta--the anti-Japanese university--was at the centre of attempts to resist foreign invaders and, after October 1, 1949, became a model for the rest of China. K'angta owed much to Mao's essays On Practice and On…

Addresses the implications of lifelong learning, development aid projects of UNESCO and the World Bank, transnationalism as a policy for education and development, and the position of ethnic minorities in a multicultural society. (SK)

Adult education should move away from an increasingly pragmatic and vocational focus toward a global view of sustainable development and social change that addresses the imbalances in the wealth of nations. (SK)

Adult education in China is largely geared to political and economic ends. In accordance with tradition, content is delivered by experts and specialists with a high degree of formal structure and little student participation. A national teacher training system is needed. (SK)

The quantity and quality of research and scholarship is a key indicator of the status of knowledge in a given discipline. Through academic publications, researchers disseminate the discipline's findings and accomplishments. For both new and old members in a discipline, being aware of what is being published in the major journals helps them…

Women make up over 75% of the Australian adult community education sector, a fact largely ignored by the literature. Interlocking effects of gender, race, and class limit people's options, and adult educators are responsible for monitoring their programs to ensure they do not perpetuate these limits. (Author/JOW)

The European Community must develop policies regarding a number of challenges: free circulation of people across borders, disadvantaged regions, economic restructuring, access to vocational education, and cooperation with Eastern Europe. (SK)

Since the "velvet revolution," different educational trends have arisen in Czech and Slovak republics. Slovakia has retained some centralization and state subsidies whereas, in the Czech Republic, education is more open to market forces. (SK)

Discusses the difficulties that must be surmounted in implementing the recommendations and hopes of the Tokyo Conference. (Author/RK)

A classification system for educational statistics, the International Standard Classification of Education, was created to compare statistics on adult education. However, it is necessary to untangle the terminology associated with adult education in order to utilize ISCED. Authors attempt to restate and refine terms and concepts for that purpose.…