This paper unfolds through the eating, speaking mouths of online learners and teachers and theorists as a way of exploring the educative potential of holding in tension the ambiguous virtues of the body and the (no)body in formal and informal electronic learning environments. Online learning research commonly devalues the body and takes the body…

Describes the restructuring of the Centre for Continuing Education and the University of Auckland within the context of political ideology, developments in New Zealand universities, and the historical role of adult and continuing education. Concludes that strategic neglect enabled external forces to drive policy and practice toward neoliberal…

Adult educators respond to fiscal stringency by realigning programs or attempting to maintain the status quo. Adult educators have played a significant role in local economies but this fact is largely unrecognized. They must rethink their rationale, reject outmoded beliefs and patterns, and justify their work through program outcomes. (Author/CH)