Key Concepts in Adult Education and Training

Malcolm Tight is a Reader in Continuing Education at the University of Warwick. He previously worked at Birkbeck College and the Open University. He researches post-compulsory education policy and practice, and the relations between adult and organizational learning.

• Introduction, Concepts in adult education and training A contested terrain, Questions of values, Organization of the book, Core and qualifying concepts Frameworks for analysis, How to use this book, A few final points 1 Core Concepts 2 International concepts 3 Institutional concepts 4 Work-related concepts 5 Leaming concepts 6 Curriculum concepts 7 Structural concepts 8 Conceptual understandings.

'Overall, this book is well-written and highly accessible to students and experts alike. It succeeds in clearly and effectively describing and mapping the linguistic and conceptual topography of the field ... Above all, this new edition exhibits a sensitivity to developments in the dynamic and evolving lexicon of adult education and training and expresses an awareness that this is not the last word.' - Escalate