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The Rise and Fall of an Adult Education Qualification.
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Findsen, Brian – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2000
Reviews the development of a certificate in adult education for teachers in New Zealand, including issues related to the ideology of neoliberalism. Presents issues involved in the termination of the program and new directions for the training of adult educators. (Contains 21 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Educational Certificates, Foreign Countries
New Reflections on an Old Crisis: A Case Study from the 1980s.
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Fordham, Paul – Studies in the Education of Adults, 1997
A review of the 1983 attempt to close the Department of Adult Education at the University of Southampton illuminates the debates over the nature of adult education, the end of political consensus about educational policy, and the demise of the "Great Tradition" of university liberal education in the process of mainstreaming extramural…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Departments, Foreign Countries, Higher Education