The adult education centres

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Abstract:

The first adult education centre in Finland was founded in 1899 and today there are 276 centres forming the country's largest sector of liberal adult education. This paper provides an overview of these centres. Focusing on the Helsinki Adult Education Centre, it covers the distribution of subjects and students, the demands on the curriculum and the challenges to liberal adult education.

The volume of papers is indexed at TD/TNC 69.282; selected papers are indexed from TD/TNC 69.283 to TD/TNC 69.287.

Subjects: Vocational education and training; Assessment; Students; Evaluation; Adult and community education; Providers of education and training; Teaching and learning

Keywords: Adult education; Curriculum

Geographic subjects: Europe; Finland

Published: Helsinki, Finland: Finnish Adult Education Association, 1997

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Book Title: By the people, for the people: the tradition, the States of the Art and the future prospects of Finnish Liberal Adult Education / edited by Timo Toiviainen.

Pages: pp.53-59

Conference name: Major European Social and Educational Issues in the Context of Finnish-Nordic Liberal Adult Education

Date: 1997

Place: Nurmijarvi, Finland

ISBN: 9519733922