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Adult degrees and the learning society
Author(s) -
Maehl William H.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
new directions for adult and continuing education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0717
pISSN - 1052-2891
DOI - 10.1002/ace.144
Subject(s) - adult education , adult learning , baby boomers , globalization , learning society , degree (music) , movement (music) , lifelong learning , sociology , political science , pedagogy , aesthetics , demographic economics , economics , law , philosophy , physics , acoustics
This overview of the adult degree movement since World War II focuses on factors of creation before 1970, the adult degree revolution of the 1970s, the post‐baby boomer enrollments in the 1980s, and globalization and technology‐based distance learning in the 1990s.