Chapter Fifteen
The Educator of Adults
Educators of adults, like most other employed people, work within an organization and like them, adult educators suffer similar satisfactions, constraints and problems. Because adult education is organized it is significant to note that unless there is an existential relationship between the organization and educator, the individual is not actually an educator; it is having a contractual relationship that enables a social definition of an occupation to occur. The educator of adults has been subject to more research and more literature than almost any other area of adult education although some of it is not based upon a firm or a wide theoretical base. Even so, the basic research findings can be used to construct ...
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