Mental health and adult education

In this chapter, the author argues that while adult education is being encouraged to concentrate more heavily on providing for larger constituencies of students previously excluded from education, it also needs to take into account the higher levels of mental distress that these students are experiencing. Social and economic changes and inequalities are putting increasing pressures on students, further exacerbated by funding cuts. If positive and effective educational services are to be offered to disadvantaged students, then adult education needs to be more aware of mental health issues.

The monograph from which this chapter is taken is indexed at TD/TNC 65.362. Individual chapters from this book are indexed from TD/TNC 65.363 to TD/TNC 65.370 and from TD/TNC 65.404 to TD/TNC 65.409.

In this chapter, the author argues that while adult education is being encouraged to concentrate more heavily on providing for larger constituencies of students previously excluded from education, it also needs to take into account the higher levels of mental distress that these students are experiencing. Social and economic changes and inequalities are putting increasing pressures on students, further exacerbated by funding cuts. If positive and effective educational services are to be offered to disadvantaged students, then adult education needs to be more aware of mental health ...  [+] Show more