ABSTRACT
The continuing education provider has clear and concise written statements of intended learning outcomes for the continuing education programme/activity. When a continuing education programme consists of several interrelated activities, courses, seminars, and workshops, the contribution of the intended learning outcomes of each to the total programme is clearly designated. Continuing education programmes/activities are evaluated through assessment of learners’ performance in terms of intended learning outcomes. “Practices” is just such an educational ideology, a commonly encountered belief system in adult education. Adult educators have a commitment to foster both educational and social conditions essential for free and full participation in dialogue by which autonomous and responsible adults may come to understand the meaning of their experience. Adult education fosters critical reflectivity by helping learners go beyond their initial learning needs to examine the reasons for their needs and to see the relationship of their needs to larger social and economic forces.
