Adult Education: the Practice of Teaching and Educating Adults

Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults. Other learning places include community colleges, folk high schools, and lifelong learning centers. The practice is also often referred to as "Training and Development" and is often associated with workforce or professional development. It has also been referred to as andragogy (to distinguish it from pedagogy). Adult education is different from vocational education, which is mostly workplace-based for skill improvement; and also from non-formal adult education, including learning skills or learning for personal development. This book contains a full account of existing knowledge of adult education and it?s impotence in India as well as other countries.