Adult education refers to a form of education different from ordinary full-time teaching. Adult education is not limited by age and sex. Through this educational process, people who are regarded as adults in society can increase their abilities, enrich their knowledge, improve their technical and professional qualifications, or turn them to a new direction, thus changing their attitudes and behaviors in two aspects: their all-round development and their participation in the balanced and independent development of social economy and culture.
There are four main forms of adult continuing education qualifications, namely, higher education self-study examination (self-taught examination), online education (distance education), adult college entrance examination (full-time, amateur, correspondence) and open university (former modern distance open education of Radio and TV University).
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The essential characteristics of adult education are determined by the object of education-adults. Adult education can be understood as the process of guiding education in an adult way. Adults are mature people and experienced people. Adult means maturity and experience. Patterson believes that adulthood means a kind of social identity and status, which covers certain social responsibilities.
Knowles uses "social maturity" to judge whether a person is an adult. He believes that when a person's social maturity reaches a certain level and can assume certain social responsibilities, he can be regarded as an adult. In other words, when a person enters adulthood, it means that his self-awareness and the cognition of others are recognized, that is, he has reached a certain social maturity. And this level is suitable for the adult identity of the society in which it lives.
Adult college entrance examination is a series of national education and included in the national enrollment plan. The state recognizes academic qualifications, participates in the national unified entrance examination, and all provinces and regions organize admission in a unified manner.
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