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Author Stubblefield, Harold W

Title Towards a History of Adult Education in America : the Search for a Unifying Principle
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (205 pages)
Series Routledge Library Editions: Adult Education Ser
Routledge Library Editions: Adult Education Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Adult Education as Diffusion of Knowledge; Chapter 1 The New School for Social Research, James Harvey Robinson, and the Humanizing of Knowledge; Chapter 2 The Carnegie Corporation, the American Association for Adult Education, and the Promotion of an Idea of Adult Education; Chapter 3 Lyman Bryson and the Democracy of Culture; Part II: Adult Education as Liberal Education; Chapter 4 Everett Dean Martin and a Grown-Up Civilization
Chapter 5 Robert Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and 'Liberal Education Beyond Schooling' Through the Great BooksChapter 6 Alexander Meiklejohn and John Walker Powell on Liberal Education and the Study of Contemporary Society; Part III: Adult Education as Social Education; Chapter 7 Joseph K. Hart and the Community as Educator; Chapter 8 Eduard C. Lindeman and the Cultural Approach to Adult Education; Chapter 9 Harry Overstreet and the Determinative Concept of Maturity; Chapter 10 Toward an Adult Education Tradition; Index
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Subject Adult education.
Continuing education.
Education, Continuing
continuing education.
EDUCATION -- General.
Alexander Meiklejohn, John Walker Powell.
adult education.
adult education USA.
Carnegie Corporation, American Association for Adult Education.
Eduard C. Lindeman.
Harry Overstreet.
history adult education theory.
James Harvey Robinson.
Robert Hutchins, Mortimer Adler.
social education.
Adult education
Continuing education
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429781537
0429781539
9780429433283
042943328X
9780429781520
0429781520
9780429781513
0429781512