This comprehensive introduction to adult education/postcompulsory educationoffers a broad overview of the field for students, adult educators, and workplacetrainers. The book establishes an analytical framework to emphasize the nature oflearning and examines the core knowledge and skills needed by adult educators.
"This timely and valuable book makes an important contribution to our understanding of key recent developments in adult education and their significance. Reflecting the increasingly global nature of scholarship in the field, well-respected international contributors analyse issues facing practitioners today and consider how these can be most positively embraced to further the international cause of adult learning and social justice." - Janet Hannah, University of Nottingham."