Adult Education

Adults may attend basic education courses. High-level courses are offered to college graduates in specialty majors such as business, medicine, nursing, and technical engineering, teacher training, architecture, language, art, music, architecture, etc.
Adult education as any kind of education for people who are old enough to work, vote, fight and marry and who have completed the cycle of continuous education. Adult education comprehends such diverse modes as independent study consciously pursued with or without the aid of learning or other mutual aid learning. There are many types of adult education can also be classified as follows:
1. Adult education for vocational, technical, and professional competence.
2. Adult education for health, welfare, and family living; such as education includes all kinds of education in health, family relations, consumer buying, planned parenthood, hygiene, and child care.
3. Adult education for civic, political, and community competence; such as education includes all kinds of education relating to government, community development, public and international affairs, voting and political participation.
4. Adult education for self-fulfillment, such as education in music, the arts, dance, theatre, literature, arts and crafts, whether brief or long-term.
5. Adult Remedial education: fundamental and literacy education.
Although rarely exported with success in their pure form, the folk high schools have influenced the development of residential forms of adult education in country.
As mentioned to the fifth category, adults frequently need to compensate for inadequacies of earlier education. If these inadequacies are not remedied, they inhibit recourse to modes of education that are “adult”—adult, that is, in terms of sophistication in modern society and not in terms of age. To prevent a “generation gap” in reading skills and education while an effective school system is being created for the young, governments must attempt to provide parallel facilities for adults.
Even in countries with mature systems of childhood education, however, opportunities for higher or even sometimes secondary education are unequal among various regional, occupational, and social group. Hence there are adult programs for completing high school or preparing for examinations normally taken at the end of secondary school.
Adults have long had opportunities to pursue part-time education leading to university degrees, but these programs have usually been carbon copies of programs offered to regular undergraduates. Some schools are nonprofit organizations. Extension services include both public-school programs for adults and the university extensions. Though often originating in efforts to remedy or supplement inadequate childhood education, many of these programs now cater to the same range of interests. The extension services offered by institutions of higher learning are of two broad types.
Regular undergraduates; such programs are offered via television or correspondence or in separate urban colleges. There are countless organizations whose main purposes may not be adult education but that offer some kind of instruction or leisure-time activities for adults. Not only do these agencies provide the means of individual self-education but also they frequently promote group activities or put their accommodations and resources at the disposal of adult education agencies.

Regards,
M.Nurrahmat/Noey