Key Concepts in Adult Education and Training 2nd Edition (Routledge Key Guides)

208 Pages·2003·0.71 MB·English

by  Malcolm Tight

Key Concepts in Adult Education
and Training 2nd Edition
This book is an accessible and jargon-free guide to the key concepts
used in adult education and training. The author examines in detail
forty-five of these concepts, ranging from core concepts such as educa-
tion and development to more specialist concepts like social capital
and social inclusion. This new edition has been fully revised and
updated in view of the recent surge of interest in concepts such as life-
long education and the learning society.
All those involved in the field of adult education and training come
into contact with specialist ideas or concepts on a daily basis. This
book is designed for students and practitioners of adult education and
training who wish to develop their understanding of these many associ-
ated concepts. At the end of each chapter there is also an annotated list
of useful books or articles for those who would like to investigate par-
ticular concepts in more detail.
Malcolm Tight is Professor of Education at the University of War-
wick. He has published widely in the field of post-compulsory educa-
tion and is the Editor of the journal Studies in Higher Education.
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Key Concepts in Adult

Education and Training
2nd Edition
Malcolm Tight
RoutledgeFalmer
Taylor & Francis Group
LONDON AND NEW YORK
First published 1996 by Routledge
Second edition first published 2002
by RoutledgeFalmer
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by RoutledgeFalmer
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.
RoutledgeFalmer is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
© 1996, 2002 Malcolm Tight
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any
electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or
hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,
or in any information storage or retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the
British Library
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ISBN 0-203-43408-0 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-74232-X (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-27579-2 (Print Edition)
For Christina
with all my love
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Contents
L ist of Figures x
I ntroduction 1
Concepts in adult education and training 1
A contested terrain 2
Questions of values 3
Organization of the book 4
What’s new about the second edition? 6
Core and qualifying concepts 7
Frameworks for analysis 9
How to use this book 1 0
A few final points 1 0
1 T he Core Concepts 1 2
Oppositional or related terms? 1 2
Adult 1 4
Education 1 6
Training 2 0
Learning 2 2
Teaching 2 7
Development 2 9
Vocational or liberal? 3 2
2 I nternational Concepts 3 7
The globalization of adult education and training 3 7
Lifelong education 3 9
Learning organization 4 2
Learning society 4 8
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Ideals and fashions 5 2
3 I nstitutional Concepts 5 4
The institutional framework 5 4
Further and higher 5 6
Adult and continuing 6 0
Community 6 5
Formal, non-formal and informal 6 9
Tensions, traditions and dichotomies 7 1
4 W ork-related Concepts 7 4
Education and the economy 7 4
Human capital 7 5
Human resource development 7 9
Career 8 2
Professional 8 5
Social capital 8 7
Linkages and interconnections 9 0
5 L earning Concepts 9 2
The organization and practice of adult learning 9 2
Distance, open and flexible 9 3
Experiential, problem-based, independent and self-directed 10 2
Andragogy, conscientization and communities of practice 10 8
Changing information and communication technologies 11 5
6 C urricular Concepts 11 8
Developing the curriculum 11 8
Knowledge and skill 11 9
Capability and enterprise 12 4
Competence 12 8
Quality 13 2
A political battleground 13 5
7 S tructural Concepts 13 7
Input, experience and output 13 7
Access and participation 13 8
Accreditation and modularization 14 2
Success and dropout 14 6
Social inclusion 14 9
Policy and research 15 1
8 C onceptual Understandings 15 4
Conceptual conclusions 15 4
CONTENTS ix
Conceptual relations 15 5
Conceptual characteristics 15 8
Conceptual analyses 16 1
Conceptual pasts and futures 16 4
R eferences 16 7
I ndex 19 5