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Une mise en mots de la formation pour adultes
Adult Education: Conceptual Tools

Author(s): Jean-Pierre Boutinet
Subject(s): Adult Education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: adult education; discourse; adult; requirement of individuality; formal education; non-formal education

Summary/Abstract: Referring to the transformations and social conditions that affect also the field of adult education, this text raises the following questions: By what conceptual tools, in the current postmodern context, can adult education develop its issues? What does it mean today to be an adult learner? In what form of education? The text analyzes the challenges that may influence the practice of education and indicates development proposals. The transformations concern the reconfiguration in the field of education and the meanings that are commonly assigned to it.

  • Issue Year: 3/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 62-78
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: French
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