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ERIC Number: EJ588487
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0068
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning: New Developments in Russia.
Zajda, Joseph
Comparative Education, v35 n2 p151-61 Jun 1999
Examines effects of social and economic change on adult education and lifelong learning in postcommunist Russia. Discusses the history of Russian adult education, educational policy changes in the 1990s, establishment of the first Open University and a network of adult-education centers, and the conflict between market-oriented objectives and goals of personal development and empowerment. Contains 40 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Compensatory Education, Continuing Education Centers, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Individual Development, Postsecondary Education, Role of Education, Secondary Education, Social Change
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Russia
Note: Theme issue (Special Number 21) with title: "Lifelong Learning and the Education of Mature Adults."