Adult Education in China (Routledge Library Editions: Comparative Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138544620 ISBN 13: 9781138544628

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Originally published in 1985. China is currently making a massive effort to educate its workforce in a formal and structured system. A good deal has been written about China’s attempts, since 1949, to eradicate illiteracy and to universalise primary and secondary school education but the subject of this book is an educational system established to meet the needs of those already employed whether in government, industry or agriculture.

Two study teams, sponsored by the lnternational Council for Adult Education, visited China in 1981 to explore this educational phenomenon. Their findings, updated by subsequent ICAE visits and enriched by further reading, form the basis of this book. This is the story of the Chinese experience of developing adult education. It will be valuable to those involved in extending education in the industrialised world who are pursuing modernisation goals for people long excluded from the formal education system.

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Carman St John Hunter, Martha McKee Keehn

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138544620
• ISBN 13: 9781138544628
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: Hunter Carman St John, Keehn Martha McKee