Adult Education In Canada

I learned that Canada is concentrating adult education both as a field of practice and field of study since 1960. The definition of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a field of practice and entire body of the adult education processes level or method, formal or informal and whether the processes prolong initial formal educational system. And according to UNESCO the word adult means someone beyond school studying age. In other means that there is no upper age limit for the learning and the term lifelong learning is also used to refer the adult education.

I further learned that the adult education was originally an interdisciplinary drawn from sociology, philosophy, history and psychology and most

The project was designed in a two way learning method. The UBC adult education department faculty who worked as advisors of the project received more than they hope to give in return. I learned that it was a wonderful experience to each of the six Canadians who got the opportunity to test their knowledge and experience and made this project as their laboratory. They had new experience coupled with hospitality and friendship of Indian counter-parts and helped them to produce the resources out of which life long memories they made. While coming back to Canada each of the Canadian advisors consider themselves as a better adult educator as a result of their experience with the

Trade unions, cooperatives, commercial and industrial sectors, hospitals, religious institutions and even prisons organised non-formal learning with a wide variety of teaching and learning methods. Now a days, the technology is helping the adult education programmes by the educational institutions world-wide. I learned that the adult education structure is responsible of an facilitator or instructor in government or in private sector as person in charge with appropriate professional capacities. I further learned that most of the Canadians are participating regularly in informal learning and often it is not measured or recognised. It is leaving many workers as overqualified with under-employed. According to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of University of Toronto’s research on formal and informal learning, it is noticed that half of the Canadian population aged between 25 and 64 are receiving further education through lifelong