ABSTRACT

This will, I hope, turn out to be an overview of adult education provision, of such a kind that it may suggest to the reader ways in which the disaffected adult may be drawn to participate in it, either by changing the provision, or the adult, or by modifying the world in which the former exists and the latter lives. There may be other ways of achieving this desirable aim, but for the moment I cannot think of any. This seemingly simple task is a problem that has occupied the minds and sometimes the actions of educators-with only limited successsince the beginning of adult education.