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Adult Education as Defined by UNESCO

At the 1976 conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) the following inclusive definition of adult education, was adopted:

[Adult education is] the entire body of organised educational processes, whatever the content, level, or method, whether formal or otherwise, whether they prolong or replace initial education in schools or colleges, and universities as well as in apprenticeship, whereby persons regarded as adult by the society to which they belong develop their abilities, enrich their knowledge, improve their technical or professional qualifications, or turn them in a new direction and bring about changes in their attitudes or behaviour in the two-fold perspective of full personal development and participation in balanced independent, social, economic, and cultural development.

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