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Adult and community education (ACE) is education and training intended principally for adults. It includes general, vocational, basic and community education, as well as recreation, leisure and personal enrichment programs. Providers of ACE can be neighbourhood and community houses, community colleges, University of the Third Age, community learning centres, and other community organisations who offer learning opportunities to adults.
Research
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Recent publications
- Adult higher education in a Portuguese prison
- Adult offenders' perceptions of rehabilitation programs in Africa
- An adult learner's learning style should inform but not limit educational choices
- Between inclusion and fairness: social justice perspective to participation in adult education [Europe]
- Bringing together learning from two worlds: lessons from a gender-inclusive community education approach with smallholder farmers in Papua New Guinea
- Defining on-ramps to adult career pathways [US]
- Examining social inclusion and social capital among adult learners in blended and online learning environments [Belgium]
- Integrated Education and Training: a career pathways policy and practice [US]
- Integrated non-formal education and training programs and centre linkages for adult employment in South Africa
- Profiling adult literacy facilitators in development contexts: an ethnographic study in Ethiopia
- Resilience: stories of adult learning [Australia]
- The returns to mature-age education in Australia
- The rise and fall of life-wide learning for adults in England
- The role of New South Wales community education providers in regional and rural economic development
- When investment in basic skills gives negative returns [Norway]
Suggested reading
Key research from a broad date range
- Adult education: the Hamburg Declaration: the agenda for the future [international]
- Adults in formal education: policies and practice in Europe
- Adult and community education policy in Aotearoa New Zealand 2000-2014
- Exploring the social and economic impacts of adult and community education [Australia]
- Indigenous intergenerational learning: unlocking the potential of ACE to improve literacy and numeracy outcomes for Indigenous children [Australia]
- Ministerial declaration on adult community education [Australia]
- The state of ACE in Australia: defining the status and role of the not for profit adult and community education sector
Resources
General
- ACE Aotearoa [New Zealand]
- ACE Disability Network [Australia]
- Adult and community education (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
- Adult education and development (journal) [international]
- Adult education quartery (journal) [international]
- Adult Learning Australia
- American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE)
- Australian Men’s Shed Association (AMSA)
- Australian Neighbourhood Houses and Centres Association (ANHCA)
- Community Colleges Australia
- European Association for the Education of Adults
- International journal of continuing education and lifelong learning (journal)
- Learning and Work Institute (merger of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education - NAICE, and the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion) [UK]
- New directions for adult and continuing education (journal)
- University of the Third Age Australia
Statistics
- Adult education, accredited web-based schools, 2016 (Statistics Norway)
- Adult education and training (Statistics Canada)
- Adult learning statistics: characteristics of education and training (Eurostat) [European Union]
- Further education, work-based learning and community learning statistics (The Welsh Government)
- National Center for Education Statistics
- U.S. Department of Education
- Work-related training and adult learning (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
