Adult Education and the Challenges of the 1990s

Originally published in 1987, this book focuses on the areas of labour and employment education, the environment and ecological education, peacemaking and peace education, intercultural relations and multicultural education, education in the developing world and the changing role of the university and technological innovation. This international collection of essays examines the relationship of adult education and learning to some of the major dilemmas of late 20th century society and looks at the contribution of adult education.

Walter Leirman, Jindra Kulich

1. Adult Education: Movement and Discipline Between the Golden Sixties and the Iron Eighties 2. Productivity and Time: A Reflection About the Future 3. Education, Production Development and Technological Innovation 4. Perspective of an Environmental Oriented Economy 5. Ecological Education A Failing Practice? Or: is the Ecological Movement an Educational Movement? 6. Peacemaking in the Community, The Nation and the World 7. Peace Education: Learning How to Transform a Life-world Threatened by Violence 8. Multicultural Societies in North-Western Europe 9. Multicultural Education As a Task of Adult Education: Observations From Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany 10. The Moral Base of Development 11. Dialogue Towards Development and the Development of Dialogue 12. The University and Adult Education: the Newest role and Responsibility of the University 13. Training Systems for Future Adult Educators Borivoj Samolov-ev 14. Adult Education and the Computer