CONTENTS
PART I – Sociological Perspectives
Chapter 1 Sociological Introduction
Sociological Schools of Thought and Ideologies
Chapter 2 Education and Social Change
Emergence and Growth of Education
The Changing Concept of Education
Adult and Continuing Education
Chapter 3 Interpreting Adult and Continuing Education
Underdetermination in Adult Education
PART II – A Sociology of a Teaching and Learning Curriculum
Classical and Romantic Curricula
Chapter 5 Aims, Objectives and Meeting Needs and Demands in Adult Education
Chapter 6 The Content of the Curriculum
A Sociological Understanding of the Nature of Knowledge
Curriculum Content as a Selection from Culture
Chapter 7 Teaching Methods and Learning
Criticisms of the Strategy-Based Position
The Teaching Strategy of Paulo Freire
Chapter 8 Examinations and Assessment
Definition and Legitimation of Social Reality
Examinations Reproduce the Hierarchical Relations in Society
Examinations and the Reproduction of Society’s Mode of Operation
PART III – Adult and Continuing Education in the Context of Society
Chapter 9 The Functions of Adult and Continuing Education
Maintenance of the Social System and Reproduction of Existing Social Relations
Transmission of Knowledge and the Reproduction of Culture
Individual Advancement and Selection
Second Chance and Legitimation
Leisure Time Pursuit and Institutional Expansion
Chapter 10 Alternative Approaches to the Education of Adults
Chapter 11 Adult and Continuing Education and Social Policy
Application of Social Policy Models to Adult and Continuing Education
PART IV – Adult and Continuing Education in the Organizational Context
Chapter 12 The Organization of Adult and Continuing Education
The Organization of the Service
Centre-Periphery Model of Organization
Dilemmas of Institutionalised Education of Adults
Chapter 13 Adult Participants in Education
Access to Adult and Continuing Education
Participation in the Education of Adults
Chapter 14 Interaction within the Organization
Chapter 15 The Educator of Adults
The Occupation of Educator of Adults
The Occupation within the Organization