Adult education extension of educational opportunities for adults beyond the age of general public education who feel a need for continuous training of any kind, also known as training continues.
The forms of adult education
Contemporary adult education can take many different forms. Colleges and universities have established programs evening, extension, non-credit courses, corresponence courses and distance learning programs (with courses transmitted by satellite to many locations); community colleges were particularly active in this field. Organisations aimed at alleviating illiteracy play a key role in adult education, as well as schools established to teach English and American customs at the foreign-born. Adult education is also sponsored by businesses, unions and private institutes. The area now includes such diverse fields as vocational education, high-school equivalency, parent education, adult basic education (including literacy), physical and emotional, practical arts, applied sciences And recreation as well as the traditional academic, business and professional subjects. Each year, millions of Americans take the course or program.
At the local level, public schools have played an active role in providing facilities and assistance to groups of adult education in many communities. Community centres, political and economic associations and dramatic, musical, artistic and groups are considered by many as adult education. Great Books groups (est. 1947), in which adults read and discuss a list of volumes, is born of ledgers seminars in Chicago and Columbia universities and St. John's College. In many places, the local public library perpetrators of such groups.
Development
Only in the past two centuries, the area of adult education organization acquired final. Its relatively recent development results for many social trends-the widespread public education, intensified economic competition with a premium on skills, the complexities of international politics and requiring constant study, the effects of stimulating urbanization, the opportunity presented by increasing free time, and a heightened interest in educational activities on the part of many older men and women. Modern and formal adult education probably originated in European political groups and, after the industrial revolution, in the categories for professional workers. More schools for workers in Germany and Switzerland were commonplace. The popular high school in Denmark, founded by Bishop Grundtvig, stressed intellectual studies and adult schools of the Society of Friends in England (1845) promote the education of the poor.
The forms of adult education
Contemporary adult education can take many different forms. Colleges and universities have established programs evening, extension, non-credit courses, corresponence courses and distance learning programs (with courses transmitted by satellite to many locations); community colleges were particularly active in this field. Organisations aimed at alleviating illiteracy play a key role in adult education, as well as schools established to teach English and American customs at the foreign-born. Adult education is also sponsored by businesses, unions and private institutes. The area now includes such diverse fields as vocational education, high-school equivalency, parent education, adult basic education (including literacy), physical and emotional, practical arts, applied sciences And recreation as well as the traditional academic, business and professional subjects. Each year, millions of Americans take the course or program.
At the local level, public schools have played an active role in providing facilities and assistance to groups of adult education in many communities. Community centres, political and economic associations and dramatic, musical, artistic and groups are considered by many as adult education. Great Books groups (est. 1947), in which adults read and discuss a list of volumes, is born of ledgers seminars in Chicago and Columbia universities and St. John's College. In many places, the local public library perpetrators of such groups.
Development
Only in the past two centuries, the area of adult education organization acquired final. Its relatively recent development results for many social trends-the widespread public education, intensified economic competition with a premium on skills, the complexities of international politics and requiring constant study, the effects of stimulating urbanization, the opportunity presented by increasing free time, and a heightened interest in educational activities on the part of many older men and women. Modern and formal adult education probably originated in European political groups and, after the industrial revolution, in the categories for professional workers. More schools for workers in Germany and Switzerland were commonplace. The popular high school in Denmark, founded by Bishop Grundtvig, stressed intellectual studies and adult schools of the Society of Friends in England (1845) promote the education of the poor.
