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ERIC Number: EJ504444
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0266-0830
"Mythmaking and Mortmain": The Uses of Adult Education History?
Chase, Malcolm
Studies in the Education of Adults, v27 n1 p52-65 Apr 1995
Writing on adult education history is dominated by the "Great Tradition" perspective. A new historical agenda that is more open to movements and ideas in contemporary social history could move the field from history of adult education to histories of adult learning. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Educational History, Higher Education, Historiography, Social History
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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