Abstract
This chapter elaborates training of adult educators. Teacher education for adult education means courses for adult education personnel, including industrial, commercial, and governmental training staff, and other adult, continuing, and nonformal education functionaries, to perform their duties better. Personnel may be full-time, part-time, or voluntary. Teacher education may be preservice, and accredited, but academic education in adult education typically follows work experience. The larger part of teacher education takes inservice short-course forms. The great tradition of liberal adult education, as it is called in the United Kingdom, Australia, and elsewhere, emphasizes the importance of certain values, purposes, and personal qualities, as well as the part-time, and voluntaristic traditions, all of which present problems for the training of adult educators. It is disputable whether many of the personal qualities extolled among teachers of adults can be systematically taught, rather than being either inherited, or acquired through experience, and maturation.
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