Thriving and surviving on the fringe: Whither adult and community education in the 1990s?

This paper looks at adult and community education (hereafter ACE), and in particular, the dimensions of, and reasons for, its marginal status as an education sector; its role, principally measured in its educational achievements, as a field in Aotearoa; and possible future directions for it in a political environment which is predominantly hostile to much of its central ethos and tenets.