New Patterns in Adult Learning
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With the accelerating transition towards a post-industrial society the challenge to reduce the exclusive tendencies in adult education and training, and to make learning a common, continuous and even universal experience is becoming more urgent than ever. The design of successful intervention strategies will depend crucially on the knowledge base of adult education, especially improved insights into the factors that are associated with participation and non-participation. This volume, which reports on a six-country comparative investigation into the patterns of adult education participation, seeks to make a contribution to that knowledge base, and thereby to the formulation of effective policy development.
Foreword1The "Silent Explosion" of Adult Learning12Demand and Supply of Adult Education and Training173Patterns of Participation in Adult Education: Cross-national comparisons394Barriers to Participation in Adult Education and Training: Towards a new Understanding775The Non-participation of Undereducated Adults1016New Trajectories of Learning Across the Lifespan1317Literacy Proficiency and Adults' Readiness to Learn1558Gender Differences in Work-related Adult Education and Training1899Beyond the Walls of the Household: Gender and Adult Education Participation20910Adult Education Participation: A Policy Overview229App. AInternational Adult Literacy Survey: Data Collection Procedures249App. BAdult Education Participation Survey255Notes on Contributors259Index of Names263
