Adult Education in a Cold Climate: British Adult Education to the Year 2000

Authors

  • Richard Taylor University of Leeds

Abstract

Adult Education in Britain finds itself in considerable difficulties in the last years of the 20th Century. The strong, though diverse and conflict-ridden traditions of adult education are almost all at odds with the prevailing ideology of the present period. Moreover, post-school education in general, and universities in particular, have suffered very severe financial cutbacks in recent years. Adult education has therefore been through very hard times recently. And the market orientation threatens the liberal ideological basis of the whole enterprise. There are, however, several crucial respects in which the current context potentially favours adult education development: demographic trends; cost effectiveness; the realisation of the need for both lifelong education and training; and a greater flow of mature students into higher education. All these are positive developments for adult education. Can adult education survive and prosper in this context or will it become so compromised or integrated that its very existence will be under threat by the year 2000?

> Résumé

Les dernières années de ce 20e siècle s'avèrent difficiles pour l'éducation des adultes en Grande-Bretagne. Les traditions de l'éducation des adultes, bien que diverses et parfois conflictuelles, s'opposent presque toutes à l'idéologie qui domine actuellement. De plus, au cours des dernières années, l'éducation post-secondaire en général, et les universités en particulier, ont beaucoup souffert des coupures budgétaires qui leur ont été imposées. L'éducation des adultes vient donc de traverser une dure période. En outre, la base de sa structure, l'idéologie libérale, est menacée par l'orientation du marché. Cependant, sous plusieurs aspects, le contexte actuel peut favoriser son développement: les tendances démographiques, les coûts-bénéfices, les besoins d'éducation continue et de formation, et le flot plus important d'étudiants matures au niveau des études supérieures. Ce sont là des développements positifs pour l'éducation des adultes. Est-ce que l'éducation des adultes peut survivre et prospérer dans ce contexte ou deviendra-t-elle tellement compromise ou intégrée que son existence-même sera menacée en l'an 2000?

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Published

1990-05-01

How to Cite

Taylor, R. (1990). Adult Education in a Cold Climate: British Adult Education to the Year 2000. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 4(1), 33–44. Retrieved from https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/cjsae/article/view/2336

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (1990)

Section

Perspectives

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