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.
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ACCESS Archive
Thriving and surviving on the fringe: Whither adult and community education in the 1990s?
Vol 15, Number 2, p.91