This volume provides the first international comparative study on
the world of adult learning activities. It offers the first
systematic attempt to provide reliable empirical information on
some critical issues regarding the transformation of adult and
continuing education in post-industrial societies such as:
- What is the extent of the learning demand among the adult
population in industrialized countries?
- How many adults are involved every year in organized learning
activities for vocational reasons, for reasons of academic or
general education, and for socio-cultural aims?
- Who participates in what kind of activities? Who does not
participate, and why?
- How is the transformation of the learning demand to be explained?
What are the main factors at work in this remarkable rise in the
learning aspirations of adult women and men?
- Why is it important to monitor the expanding field of organized
adult learning? And how is its dispersed reality of multifold
provision to be monitored?
The book is based on survey data collected for this purpose in
six industrialized countries: Canada, The Netherlands, Poland,
Sweden, Switzerland and the United States, as well as in the
peripheric European region of the Canary Islands (Spain). Although
marked by significant differences between the countries surveyed,
the data indicate a surprising increase in the participation of the
adult population in educational projects while at the same time
revealing some conflicting trends.
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