Adult Learning, Economy and Society: Modernization Processes and the Changing Functions of Adult Education

Henning Salling Olesen

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-044894-7.00043-9

Adult Learning, Economy and Society: Modernization Processes and the Changing Functions of Adult Education

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Abstract

The article relates the different types of adult education, continuing education and training to an overall societal context of socio-economic modernization by focussing on the multiple functions of adult learning. Each of well known empirical categories is seen in its historical relation to modernisation processes. Literacy is a precondition for the development of division of labour and remote power relations, community education defending and sometimes enhancing cultural and social autonomy, and lately the lifelong learning which is required for work competence but also seems to take an all embracing form which set a new framework for human participation in the new global society.

Translated title of the contribution	Voksenlæring, økonomi og samfund: Moderniseringsprocesser og Voksenuddannelsens skiftende funktioner
Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of Education
Editors	Penelope Peterson, Eva Baker, Barry McGaw
Publisher	Elsevier
Publication date	2010
Edition	3
Pages	217-222
ISBN (Print)	978-0-08-044894-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-044894-7.00043-9
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

Education
Institutional learning
Informal learning
Literacy
Community education
Lifelong learning
Modernisation
Individuality
Autonomy
Human capital
Competence
Subjectivity
Experience

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10.1016/B978-0-08-044894-7.00043-9

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