International Dictionary of Adult and Continuing Education
1. UNESCO definition is ‘the organized and sustained instruction designed to communicate a combination of knowledge, skills and understanding valuable for all the activities of life’. This definition relates to the concept of lifelong education which UNESCO espoused. The definition, however, is flawed because it omits attitudes and the idea of ‘communication’ may suggest that it is always teacher-directed. 2. The social organization of learning activities. 3.
Any planned series of incidents, having a humanistic basis, directed towards the participants’ learning and understanding. 4. The study of teaching and learning. 5. The subject matter concerned with the study of teaching and learning. 6. The organized way of learning from the experience of others. 7. Some scholars, such as Richard Peters, consider that it is too complex a term to define and would rather seek to give it a number of characteristics, but by so doing there is an implicit definition.
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