ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the issues and directions of adult education and the future, basic education including literacy, work-related education, and discretionary education. Generally adult education has developed as a response to individual and societal needs. Many adult educators are particularly accepting of one of the central ideas inherent in lifelong learning, the focus on learning, as distinct from education. The variety of issues facing adult educators and the complexity of arrangements for the provision of adult education within any one country have generally defied even the best efforts at comprehensive description. Each of the global issues has its repercussions in the lives of people, even those in remote villages. The task of the adult educator would be to help make the concrete connections and to assist in determining the resources necessary to turn discussion into learning and action.
