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There are numerous ideological positions that have been used and abused in adult educators’ collective attempts to more fully understand the fundamental principles linked to older adult learning/education. The use of terms such as ‘adult education’, ‘recurrent education’, ‘adult and community education’, ‘lifelong learning’, ‘community development’, ‘continuing education’, ‘lifelong education’, ‘the learning organisation’, ‘the learning society’, and indeed, ‘older adult education’ (see chapter 8), have been used loosely in a variety of historical and ideological contexts.
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Findsen, B., Formosa, M. (2011). From ‘Adult Education’ to ‘Lifelong Learning’. In: Findsen, B., Formosa, M. (eds) Lifelong Learning in Later Life. International Issues in Adult Education, vol 7. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-651-9_3
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