National Institute Of Adult Continuing Education Niace: 55 books

The NIACE adult participation survey for 2010 shows a sea change. After years of falling numbers, and an ever-widening gulf between the learning-rich and the learning-poor, there was an upturn in the proportion of adults engaged in learning and in the number expecting to take part in the future. Current...

The key message of the annual NIACE Survey on Adult Participation for 2011 is that recession is bad for lifelong learning for anyone over the age of 25. The survey highlights the central importance of workplaces as sites of adult learning - and of the challenges posed to a learning society when opportunities...

Adult literacy provision has become more functional and assessment driven over the last decade, largely due to funding requirements and the introduction of the national test. One result of this is that the clear benefits of reading for pleasure in adult skills development have become less apparent....

Learning Through Life is the definitive report into the future for lifelong learning in the UK. Essential reading for everyone with a personal or professional interest in the social and economic trends shaping tomorrow’s world, it provides a comprehensive vision for the future of lifelong learning. For...

The nature of further education (FE) in England and the role of FE colleges is changing in response to a new age of austerity, diminishing public resources and views on the role of the State in allocating them. Our economies and the FE market are becoming increasingly globalised. There is no better...

Remaking Adult Learning provides an exciting and innovative addition to the literature on adult learning. Charting challenges and successes in the sector, it illustrates how taking part in well thought-out programmes can have a positive and sometimes life-saving impact on people’s lives. While grounded...

Jane Thompson’s writings have influenced and inspired the work of a generation of radical practitioners in adult and community education in Britain and overseas. This new book of essays reflects her concern for working-class and women’s education, for social justice, active citizenship and for...

Jane Thompson’s books and essays have inspired and validated the work of radical practitioners in adult and community education not only in Britain, but also overseas – particularly in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. This is a collection of extracts, essays and conference...

This book is a tribute to a leading researcher in participation studies, as well as a look back to the lessons to be drawn from past struggles to secure greater equity for marginalised groups, and forward to the social, political and educational policy challenges facing providers, administrators,...

Why does reading and writing matter in modern societies? How do we know adult literacy education does any good? Why Literacy Matters pulls together a wide range of evidence to build a powerful and convincing argument about why literacy matters to all of us. St Clair explains that we can look at literacy...

Of importance to all educators, practitioners and academics in adult education, training and lifelong learning, Adult Education in Changing Times explores the realities of adult education practice in the current economic and political climate, set against the backdrop of the changes in philosophy,...

This is a book about connections between social and educational inequalities in the UK. It draws on empirical research into how these inequalities impact on lives, particularly those of adults who, having left school with few or no qualifications, are likely to suffer social exclusion. Through life...

This book explores the ongoing dilemma that has plagued many educators for generations – is adult learning and the teaching of adults the same or different from that of younger persons? Rogers examines what is meant by learning. He proposes that there are two distinct forms of learning common to...

Over the last 25 years university continuing education departments have come under unprecedented threat, with many closing or changing beyond recognition. Yet this has occurred over the same period that their central values of social equity, accessibility and learner engagement are at the heart of...