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Education For Fullness: The Role Of Adult Education In Nigeria In The 21st Century, Sydney Nwanakponna Osuji Sep 2006

Education For Fullness: The Role Of Adult Education In Nigeria In The 21st Century, Sydney Nwanakponna Osuji

Essays in Education

Education is very necessary for man in order to articulate himself and achieve fullness. But the formal system, which is elitist, discriminatory and instalmental, cannot alone provide all education one needs for self-fulfillment. The terminologies, such as, continuing education, recurrent education, education permanente and life-long education, have been used by different bodies to stress that education should be co-terminous with life. Adult education in its complementary and supplementary roles in education affords citizens of a country opportunities for attainment of self-fulfillment and fullness. Therefore, it is necessary that Nigeria should heighten efforts towards adult education in order to enable the …


Adult Education Enters The Cultural Competency Craze, Michael L. Rowland Aug 2006

Adult Education Enters The Cultural Competency Craze, Michael L. Rowland

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper will provide a brief overview of the literature on cultural competency as it relates to health care. Cultural competency is a strategy to reduce and eliminate inequities in health care that are related to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexual orientation. The paper will provide a framework for health profession educators to understand cultural competency through the lens of adult education.