adult education
6
3.0
- noun
- /əˈdʌlt ˌɛdʒʊˈkeɪʃən/
:
educación de adultos
- She decided to pursue adult education after realizing she wanted to change her career path.
- adult education program
- adult education courses
- adult education center
Examples
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Coping with these differences while providing viable adult education is a challenge for Asia's emerging educational institutions.
Academic text (1999) -
The second dimension identifies the client focus served by adult education, whether it be individuals, groups, or communities.
Academic text (1990) -
Understanding how adults learn is vital to successful adult education practice.
Academic text (2008) -
Cognitive development as a goal of adult education has received somewhat less attention.
Academic text (1991) -
Rather, they were asked to talk about the liberal adult education courses they had taken within the previous 12 months.
Academic text (2015) -
Is it not the political and social status quo that adult education should aim to change?
Academic text (2011) -
Would they participate in adult education at higher levels if they perceived participation to foster development?
Academic text (1991) -
There is a well-established tradition in adult education of using the arts to challenge oppression.
Academic text (2015) -
Welfare-to-work initiatives invariably involve adult education to satisfy training and education components.
Academic text (1997) -
Many adults enroll in adult education classes to improve their job skills.
Synonyms
8
3.2
Courses adults take after leaving school to learn new skills for work or life
How Formal
8
2.7
506
1.8
6
3.0
15
2.4
- Jargon
1
8.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'education provided for adults' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'adult' (a fully grown person) with 'education' (formal learning). This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward English noun–noun modification, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Adult education comes from the simple idea of grown-up learning: adult plus education. It began when people who had left school went back to classes in the evenings at community centers to learn new skills, so the term now means 'education for adults'.