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Grace, Andre P. – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2012
In 1947 the Truman Commission on Higher Education accentuated the importance of adult education in its report entitled "Higher Education for American Democracy". In 1970 a new US "Handbook of Adult Education" signifying the move to a more professionalised field of study and practice was published. The intervening years encapsulate a time of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, North Americans
Satchwell, Candice; Smith, June – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2009
This article draws on the experience of a research project designed to bring together practitioners and researchers in further education (FE) colleges and the higher education (HE) sector in pursuit of ways of creating more accessible learning opportunities for students in colleges. Here we explore some of the assumptions underlying the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Projects, Adult Education, Educational Opportunities
Barr, Jean – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2007
Donald Swanson, a library scientist at the University of Chicago, has coined the phrase "undiscovered public knowledge". As a university-based adult educationalist I am particularly interested in the "undiscovered public knowledge" which lies in the spaces beyond the academy, especially in the many associations, groups and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Research, Adult Educators