50 Years of AONTAS: Developments in the Field of Adult Education in Ireland as Reflected in the Contents of "The Adult Learner and Its Antecedent Journals"

Autor/inn/en	Golding, Barry; Harvey, Jack
Titel	50 Years of AONTAS: Developments in the Field of Adult Education in Ireland as Reflected in the Contents of "The Adult Learner and Its Antecedent Journals"
Quelle	In: Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, (2019), S.21-56 (36 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0790-8040
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Adult Education; Adult Learning; Educational Change; Educational Trends; Social Change; Professional Associations; Periodicals; Journal Articles; Media Research; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adulte education; Bildungsreform; Bildungsentwicklung; Sozialer Wandel; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Medienforschung; Irland
Abstract	Our article was commissioned by AONTAS, The National Adult Learning Organisation in Ireland. Using a critical and independent 'outsider' perspective, we analyse and examine the contents of The Adult Learner journal (ALJ), published in Ireland by the Adult Education Organisers' Association (AEOA) and later with AONTAS1 between 1985 and 2017. We also include an analysis of an antecedent journal, A Review of Adult Education, first published by AONTAS in 1971 and briefly reissued in 1979-80. As well as identifying trends in content and authorship in all 39 journals across almost five decades, our analysis also provides a window into the establishment of AONTAS, its journals, editors and editorial boards. Like the 50-year retrospective review of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning (Harris and Morrison, 2011) this review sought to identify evidence in the journal of recurrent and changing issues in adult education in the context of massive political, economic and social changes that have swept across the island of Ireland, and the increasingly interconnected and networked world during this period. It also sought to identify suggested methods of addressing these issues through policy and practice developments. Whilst we identify some things that are well known to AONTAS, journal readers and sectoral insiders, other less obvious trends emerge through our systematic, longitudinal, comparative and critical qualitative and quantitative analysis. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	AONTAS The National Adult Learning Organisation. 2nd Floor, 83-87 Main Street, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, Ireland. Tel: +353-1-406-8220; Tel: +353-1-406-8221; Fax: +353-1-406-8227; e-mail: mail@aontas.com; Web site: http://www.aontas.com
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01