Abstract
THIS book is a rather idealistic survey of the progress and practice of adult education in Great Britain. It is written by a number of heads of university extramural departments, all of whom have played a leading part in the national development of the movement and possess first-hand knowledge of its several aspects. As a description of the ideals, nature and activities of the movement, of the types of students involved, of the methods of teaching and of the qualities desirable or necessary in extra-mural teachers, the book is extremely interesting. It can be read with value not only by lecturers and tutors taking an active share in adult teaching but also by many academic professors, who often have little idea and less experience of adult education, and who sometimes show what can only be regarded as intolerance and a certain intellectual snobbery concerning it. Much academic teaching would be vastly improved if some of the pedagogic methods and ideals herein discussed were more widely realised.
Adult Education in Practice.
Edited by Robert Peers. Pp. xiv + 301. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1934.) 7s. 6d. net.
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B., W. Adult Education in Practice . Nature 134, 344 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134344a0
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