Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA). Papers from the Annual Conference (15th, Sheffield, England, 1985).

Overview & Synopsis

The focus of the conference was on the changing curriculum on continuing education, with special attention to women's education, professional education, and life experience. The following papers from the conference are included in this compilation: "Continuing Education" (Stoddart); "Women's Education and the New Technology" (Gerver); "Women in Technology Project" (Swarbrick); "Curricular Innovations in Women's Adult Education 1865-1900" (Bird); "Adult Education and the Family: An Examination of the Practice of Gender Construction" (Keddie); "Questions of Continuing Education" (Jarvis); "Continuing Professional Education--A Comparison of Industrial and Academic Perspectives" (Paisley); "The Development of a Degree in Nursing Studies in the German Democratic Republic" (Hancock);"Social Work and Adult Education" (Hale and Coull); "Learning from Experience through the Lifespan" (Boreham); "The Social Construction of Adulthood and the Adult Education Curriculum" (Stone); "Andragogy: A Review of the Term" (Conway); "Computers--Mainframes and Micros--in Educational Guidance Services for Adults" (Taylor); "Industrial Studies Teaching in University Adult Education Departments" (Spencer); "Structures, Procedures, and Assumptions in Universities and Their Effect on the Development of PEVE (Post Experience Vocational Education)" (Garbett and Wellings); "Adult Education as Political Detoxification" (Brookfield); "Voluntary Participation and Leadership" (Rossing); "Administrative Concerns in Literacy Voluntarism" (Ilsley); and "Re:Framing: Hegemony and Adult Education Practices" (Marino). A list of conference participants is included. (MN)