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ERIC Number: EJ930529
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0318-9090
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Canadian Adult Education: Still a Movement
Nesbit, Tom
Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, v37 n1 Spr 2011
Writing recently in this journal, two of Canada's veteran adult educators contemplated the "death" of the Canadian adult education movement. I disagree and argue that adult education in Canada is as vital an activity as ever and one that still fully justifies being called a movement. Specifically, Selman and Selman (2009) list five trends that they assert have brought about the adult education movement's demise: a general retreat from collaborative activities and collective action; a concern about "missionary" activities; the structure, values, and rewards within universities and other institutions of higher education; a shift toward "lifelong learning" as an organizing concept; and the movement somehow becoming less Canadian. In this paper, I consider each trend in some detail and provide examples to counter the Selmans' analysis. Instead, I show that adult education continues to be a critical and vital movement in Canadian society and one very far from dead.
Canadian Association for University Continuing Education. c/o CAUCE Secretariat at Centre for Continuing and Distance Education, 475 Williams Building, 221 Cumberland Avenue North, Saskatoon, SK S7N 1M3, Canada. Tel: 306-966-5582; Fax: 306-966-5590; e-mail: cauce.secretariat@usask.ca; Web site: http://www.extension.usask.ca/cjuce; Web site: http://www.extension.usask.ca/cjuce/eng/contentXissue.html
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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