Bhola 1989

Bhola, H. S. 1989.World trends and issues in adult education. London: Jessica Kingsley ; UNESCO. 177 pages. 1853020303. Location: Dallas SIL Library 374 B575w. Interest level: specialist.

Presents a comprehensive review of adult education during the last 40 years. Demonstrates how adult education has become central to the process of development and change all over the world and particularly in developing countries.

Analyzes adult education theory and research. Contributes to establishing adult education as an area of professional practice where commitment is joined to competence rooted in systematic knowledge. Compares positivism (training by objectives, emphasis on competence, focus on context, and role conception as expert instructor) with humanism (training by participation, emphasis on commitment, focus on process, and role conception as an animator and facilitator).

States that "the theory of training design need not be seen as polarized. A good adult educator would be viewed and sought to be trained as a creative practitioner who invents solutions through systematic use of empirical truth and logical deduction, in dialogue with existential reality. The successful and creative practitioner would accept objectives, but would not consider them as unchangeable. Indeed, objectives would be allowed to go through a process of reemergence. Both content and process would be joined."

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