Purpose
Different
people are motivated by different issues to return to education in adulthood.
These may include a variety of social, economical and educational reasons
(Hayes, 2006)
. For women, college can be a break from childcare enabling them
to have social contact with adults and find a space to re-assert their
individuality. New skills and qualifications also open up the possibility of a
better job and improved lifestyle.
Information and communication
technology is a powerful tool to increase every citizen’s power to have access
to information and new forms of education. It can also enrich the learning
environment (Corder, 2002). At the same time, new technologies reinforce social
disparity. The use of internet and other information technologies continue to
be dominated by persons with higher education and income, because equipment is
often unavailable to others and because there is still wide-spread
technological illiteracy (Action, 1994).
The rate of unemployment has
abruptly increased these days. The numbers of middle aged adults who are
jobless have increased and this has created serious problem for both individual
and society. Technology learning for adults can provide some measures of
alleviating the problem of unemployment (Knowles, Holton, & Swanson, 2005).
Thus proper plans for training technological education for adults should
receive immediate attention. Technological education is also an instrument for
structural change. It can be achieved as a tool for earning a living and for
achieving national economic and social objectives.
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