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Can Community Colleges Provide the Training for Educators of Adults?

The education of adults will be a priority of increasing importance during the next decade. Institutions of higher education, and community colleges in particular, have developed curricula and programs to help meet the special support service and job preparation needs of adults who return to the institution to further their education. Yet, many adults with educational needs will not meet them through formal programs of higher education. Business and industry, volunteer agencies, and religious institutions also offer nonformal and formal learning experiences for personal and professional growth. All of these agencies and educational programs have a common need for well trained and competent educators of adults. Community colleges, which have a history of successfully educating the adult learners, have an opportunity to develop programs for training educators of adults. In this article the following are discussed: * Several aspects of our society which demonstrate the need for persons trained in the theory and skills of educating adults. * The knowledge base of the field of adult education. * Ideas for building a program for training educators of adults.