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ERIC Number: EJ613484
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0020-8566
Learning and the Changing Concept of Enlightenment: Danish Adult Education over Five Centuries.
Korsgaard, Ove
International Review of Education, v46 n3-4 p305-325 Jul 2000
Based on Danish history over the past 500 years, five different traditions of enlightenment and general education are described: Christian enlightenment, civic enlightenment, popular-national enlightenment, workers' enlightenment, and personal enlightenment. Concludes with some reflections on the past 25 years, which have seen an increasing focus on the personal in the search for enlightenment. (Contains 42 references.) (VWC)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational History, General Education, Higher Education, Individual Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Denmark