Cultural institutions and adult education

✍ Scribed by Edward W. Taylor

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 63 KB
• Volume: 2010
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1052-2891
• DOI: 10.1002/ace.376

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This chapter explores cultural institutions (libraries, museums, zoos, natural places) as sites of adult education. As places of learning outside formal educational settings, they have long been overlooked as teaching resources and as viable sites for fostering civil societies and social change.