ABSTRACT
While there is a debate in Western Europe and the USA about post-modern society, other societies in the world, such as Malaysia, Indonesia, etc., are in the throes of modernising and so any discussion about continuing education and post-modernity has to recognise that continuing education is as much a feature of modernising societies as it is of those which may be entering a phase of post-modernity or, perhaps more accurately, late modernity. The concept of late modernity, rather than post-modernity, will be employed throughout this chapter in order to relate the modernising process to the central features of the contemporary world – global markets, transnational companies and the rapid changes in information technology and international travel – all of which have aided the realignment of space and time.
