Chapter 5
Aims, Objectives and Meeting Needs and Demands in Adult Education
Many courses in the education of adults are mounted, so it is claimed, either as a response to an expressed demand or need, a claim disputed by Keddie (1980:54) who, commenting on the findings of Mee and Wiltshire (1978), suggests ‘that adult education must in part, at least be understood as operating a provider’s model and is less constrained by the demands of the local community than is sometimes supposed’. Her analysis was not really a new criticism of the service ethic claimed for adult education because Wiltshire (1973) himself had suggested that the idea of responding to needs had resulted in a failure of adult education to think seriously about the theoretical ...
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