Abstract
Adult education in the United States has a history almost as old as the country itself but its modern phase had its beginnings with the social disruption which occurred during the 1960s: the civil rights movement, the American Indian Movement (AIM), the women’s movement, the revitalized peace movement (resulting from the Vietnam war), and the environmental movement. These social eruptions forced policy makers to rethink the role of education as social intervention. The result was legislation such as the war on poverty, along with several federal education mandates from elementary to higher education. Of the nine policies analyzed in this study, five can be directly traced to these protest movements and the civil disobedience which they engendered: the Job Training and Partnership Act (JTPA), National Literacy Act, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Tribal Colleges.
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Cunningham, P.M. (1997). United States of America. In: Haddad, S. (eds) Adult Education — The Legislative and Policy Environment. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3450-5_12
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