成人高等教育可持续发展应注意的问题及对策

通过揭示成人高等教育可持续发展的内涵,分析在可持续发展战略中面临的机遇与挑战,指出目前我国成人高等教育存在的问题,提出了成人高等教育可持续发展可采取加强成人高等教育的科学研究、制订我国成人高等教育发展规划、发展网络信息时代的新型成人高等教育、充分发挥成人高等教育在构建终身教育体系中的重要作用以及加强自身改革与发展,积极培育成人高等教育特色等对策,从而期待成人高等教育能更稳健而迅速的发展。     

基于新常态的成人高等教育:挑战与应对

经济发展的新常态为我国成人高等教育的改革与发展带来了新挑战,积极探索新常态背景下成人高等教育发展的困境与出路,对我国成人高等教育事业的发展意义重大.经济发展的新常态要求成人高等教育要与时俱进,适应新常态、认识新常态,最终引领成人高等教育发展的新常态.以此为背景,提出加快成人高等教育的发展速度、找准成人高等教育的发展动力、调整成人高等教育的发展结构、重视成人高等教育的培养质量等应对策略,可以促进我国成人高等教育在提质增效中实现转型发展.     

科学发展观与成人高等教育的改革发展

科学发展观有利于成人高等教育的深入开展,科学发展观有利于成人高等教育的健康发展,科学发展观拓宽和丰富了成人高等教育改革与发展的内涵。成人高等教育要落实科学发展观,一是要确立科学的成人高等教育发展观,二是要健全教育法制,确保成人高等教育事业的科学发展。     

科学发展观视域下广东省成人高等教育的发展

用科学发展观来指导成人高等教育的发展,是成人高等教育发展的客观需求和历史使命。本文主要分析广东省发展成人高等教育的必要性和目前成人高等教育发展的制约因素,并就如何坚持科学发展观,促进广东省成人高等教育的改革发展进行探索。     

对成人高等教育教学质量因素的再认识

当前成人高等教育教学发展受到严重的瓶颈束缚。这种发展状态受多种因素的影响。探讨成人高等教育教学质量因素内涵,了解影响成人高等教育教学质量的内在因素,从而建立完整的成人高等教育教学质量保障体系,对提高成人高等教育教学质量,突破成人高等教育教学发展瓶颈具有十分重要的意义。     

成人高教发展战略的理性思考

成人高等教育是终身教育体系中的重要组成部分,我们要全面树立发展成人高等教育的基本理念,准确把握新时期成人高等教育的基本内涵,大力发展灵活多样的成人高等教育的办学模式,积极推进成人高等教育的教学改革,要努力优化成人高等教育的外部发展环境,从而推进成人高等教育事业稳步健康发展.     

成人高等教育教材研发的实现途径

加强教材建设是推动成人高等教育发展的基础性与中心环节。本文根据成人高等教育教材的内在要求,结合当前成人高等教育教材中存在的问题,提出成人高等教育教材研发的要求与实现途径,期望有利于提高我国成人高等教育的质量,推动成人高等教育的发展。     

影响成人高等教育教学质量的原因及对策探析

成人高等教育虽然得到空前的发展,但其质量问题一直不能令人满意,造成成人高等教育质量不高的因素主要有成人高等教育的教学目标出现偏差,成人高等教育的课程老化、呆板,成人高等教育的教学方法普教化,成人高等教育的教学组织形式单一等。分析影响成人高等教育质量的原因并提出解决问题的策略,对成人高等教育的发展有着深远的意义。     

成人高等教育质量控制及其评价体系构建

成人高等教育是我国高等教育体系的重要组成部分.关注成人高等教育质量,对于促进高等教育大众化的可持续发展和人的全面发展意义重大,为了保障成人高等教育质量,一方面通过理顺成人高等教育发展关系、构建适合成人高等教育特点的课程体系、健全成人高等教育管理机构、完善成人高等教育管理制度等,加强其质量控制;另一方面根据成人高等教育质量评价特点,从成人高等教育管理机构、实施机构、教学站点等方面,构建成人高等教育质量评价体系,确保全面提高成人高等教育教学质量和办学效益.     

建国初创建成人高等教育的背景、任务与指导思想

由于旧中国成人高等教育没有得到充分发展 ,未能明确提出相对独立的成人高等教育指导思想 ,建国初期 ,我国发展新型成人高等教育事业的基本指导思想 ,主要蕴含在教育事业总的指导思想中。新学制也未对成人高等教育做出如成人初等教育、成人中等教育那样较明确的规定。这意味着新中国面临重新探索合理发展成人高等教育道路的复杂任务 ,成人高等教育发展道路出现多种可能性和曲折前进性     

Individualisation in Swedish Adult Education and the Shaping of Neo-liberal Subjectivities

In this article we have analysed the ways a discourse on individualisation is taking shape within adult education in Sweden, how it operates, and what effects it has in terms of shaping student subjectivity. Drawing on a post-structural theorisation we analyse interviews with teachers and students in municipal adult education and folk high schools (FHS). The analysis illustrates how both institutions contribute to the shaping of individualised subjectivities, although differently. At the end, a general question is raised about what happens with the democratic function of adult education in general when a discourse on individualisation operates in the ways described and, more specifically, asks what is happening to FHS as an educational practice that upholds its self-image as a last bastion of a collective notion of learning and subjectivity and nurturing an educational practice of learning democracy?     

Go your own way: lifelong learning and reflexive autobiographies in postmodernity

This article provides an autobiographical account of two adult educators engaged in what may be seen as an identity crisis for contemporary adult education. Through our autobiographical analysis, we address the question of what it means to be an adult educator or to practice adult education in circumstances where dedifferentiation has taken hold under the sign of lifelong learning. First, we outline the challenges that are taking place to many of the practices and institutional structures of adult education. At the heart of these, we argue that there is an intensification of reflexivity wherein the identity crisis with which we are working is both a condition for and a response to increasing individualization and reflexivity. Second, we illustrate the link between reflexivity and identity by drawing on our own autobiographies. Here we exemplify the processes we argue to be operating under the sign of lifelong learning through the exploration of our own autobiographical bricolages. Third, we explore the cultural conditions which give rise to the similarities and differences in these bricolages, in particular the rise of the new middle classes, the increased significance of popular culture and the development of postmodern positions.     

The making of entrepreneurial subjectivity in adult education

This article focuses on the idea of entrepreneurial subjectivity and the ways in which it is shaped by the entrepreneurial discourse in adult education. As a result, we argue that educational practices related to adults form a particular kind of ideal subjectivity that we refer to as entrepreneurial. In order to understand how this entrepreneurial discourse in adult education works, we will analyse how the young adults we have interviewed engage in the discourse and what effects this has for the construction of their subjectivities. Our joint empirical analysis is based on discourse-analytic methodology and on our previous empirical studies. Our research results suggest that participants in adult education end up constructing their subjectivities within the limits and possibilities of the entrepreneurial discourse that are made available to them. Embracing the entrepreneurial discourse construed in terms of autonomy and freedom, young people are expected to make a project out of their own subjectivities. As an effect, education as well as young adults’ autonomy is limited to a question of speaking in accordance with what is expected.     

Madame Li Li: Communist revolutionary,adult educator,lifelong learner

Prior to 1949 the Chinese Communist Party orchestrated innovative and participatory forms of adult education. This article concerns Madame Li Li, a leading Chinese Communist woman adult educator. Western delegates at the International Council for Adult Education 1984 Shanghai symposium on adult education were fascinated by Madame Li Li because, amongst other things, she had begun her career in adult education as a 14-year-old propagandist in the Communist New 4th Army. Today, China is trying to become the biggest learning society in the world. With this as a backdrop, the purpose of this study was to chronicle the life of Li Li and reflect on what it means for twenty-first century Chinese adult education and learning. After being forced from her Huai'an (Jiangsu) home at age 14, she worked underground for the Communist Party. After 1949 she turned early experience in surveillance and propaganda into a career as an adult educator. She has misgivings about her work in the Party Discipline department and, being from a privileged family and a high official, suffered harsh treatment during the Cultural Revolution. After the Cultural Revolution she presided over a massive adult education enterprise in Shanghai and was an organiser of the 1984 Shanghai symposium on adult education. Today she worries about corruption, instability and lack of a moral compass in China. The authors reflect on what her life means for adult education and lifelong learning in twenty-first century China.     

The song remains the same: the selective tradition of technical rationality in adult education program planning theory

The purpose of this study is to depict the historical development of American adult education planning theory. We argue that adult education planning theory represents a ‘selective tradition’ promoting a dominant ‘discourse’ that privileges ‘technical rationality’. Using discourse analysis, we demonstrate how technical rationality emerged in the professionalization movement in the 1930s to dominate planning theory discourse, how technical rational planning theory became codified by 1950, and how little it has varied since. Using relational analysis, we juxtapose this dominant tradition of technical rational planning theory with historical examples of adult education to begin expanding our notions of what could count as legitimate planning practice and theory.     

论高校成人思想政治教育的环境策略

环境是高校教育的基础和外围,面对目前高校成人思想政治教育发展的瓶颈,我们应该从环境入手探讨其应为高校成人思想政治教育做些什么。既要对高校成人思想政治教育和环境有一个详细的描述和定位,也要深入分析高校成人思想政治教育目前所面临的危机,更要从危机入手宏观考虑高校成人思想政治教育发展的环境策略,以达到解决问题的目的。     

Anti-austerity adult education in Canada: a survey of a nascent field

As the realities of austerity agendas exert pressure on adult education around the globe, this paper attempts to map the developing, albeit small, field of anti-austerity adult education in Canada. In doing so, I attempt to trace the connections between anti-austerity education and existing fields of adult education. I argue that the cases we see of anti-austerity education have distinctive features of new political realities. While not unrelated to popular pedagogical projects of the past, anti-austerity adult education sits in compulsory opposition to what Albo and Fanelli describe as the austerity initiated ‘disciplinary democracy’ project of neo-liberalism. As a result, new adult educators and educational initiatives are emerging in relation to a morphing political-economic hegemony.     

OECD重塑成人教育

90年代以来，成人教育再次成为经济合作与发展组织及其成员国教育领域中的关注重点。本文探讨了经合组织重新重视成人教育的原因及其成员国成人教育发展的现状和面对的问题，以及经合组织成员国在促进成人教育发展中采取的措施和创新。     

Lifelong learning and the low‐skilled

This article is a combined result of a three years research project on low‐skilled learners’ experiences as participants of various kinds of adult training and education in Denmark, and the findings of a three years research consortium on workplace learning, summing up and generalizing our various findings as to how low‐skilled adults function in relation to participation in training and education activities, how they feel about it, what is important to them, and consequently what works in practice in relation to this very important but often neglected group of adult learners.