Abstract
ITV’s most valuable contribution to the education of adult viewers was made in documentary and current affairs programmes. Educational broadcasters in the companies therefore believed that validated adult education (AE) programmes were best placed on the network as part of the general factual output with no distinguishing label. In what way, then, was AE distinctive?
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See Volume 2, p. 276.
Adult Education: A Plan for Development (HMSO, 1973).
Adult Education: Challenge and Change (HMSO, 1975).
IBA EAC Paper 2(74).
Ibid.
Appendix II to IBA EAC Paper 2(74).
See Volume 2, p. 286.
Social Action in Television: A Study by Francis Coleman (Independent Broadcasting Authority, 1975).
See also Chapter 17.
Broadcasting and Youth (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1979).
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1978–79, p. 28.
Ibid, p. 29.
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1979–80, p. 29.
IBA Paper 179(79).
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Potter, J. (1990). Adult Education. In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09907-8_15
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