The field of adult basic education had its genesis as a named field of education in the English speaking world in the mid-1970s, based firmly on an underpinning philosophy of humanistic education and a socio-cultural view of literacy. Subsequent decades of its development have involved recurrent and destabilising periods of change with a major and overriding theme being the move away from the humanist philosophy, towards an economically driven, human capital view of literacy, which mirrors the story of a number of other social programs in their trajectory towards the ‘new capitalism’. This paper considers the first fifteen years, or genesis, of the field of adult basic education in the state of New South Wales in Australia through official documents and archival material and through the stories from practice told by the teachers. Analysis of these stories using a theory of professional practice knowledge demonstrates the ways in which the early field of professional practice emerged as a product of its particular socio-political climate, and demonstrates also the strong convergence between the public discourses and the professional discourses surrounding the field in this period; a convergence which was progressively weakened in subsequent decades.

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我们的实践社区发生了什么？通过专业实践理论的视角，新南威尔士州成人基础教育的早期发展。

成人基础教育领域起源于1970年代中期在英语世界中的一个命名的教育领域，它牢固地建立在人文教育的基础哲学和扫盲的社会文化观念的基础上。其后几十年的发展涉及反复的，不稳定的变化时期，其主要且压倒一切的主题是从人文主义哲学转向向经济驱动的人力资本扫盲观点，这反映了许多其他社会计划的故事在他们走向“新资本主义”的道路上。本文通过官方文件和档案材料，以及通过教师讲授的实践故事，来研究澳大利亚新南威尔士州成人基础教育领域的头十五年或创世纪。使用专业实践知识理论对这些故事进行分析，可以说明早期的专业实践领域是其特定的社会政治氛围的产物，并且还证明了公共话语与围绕专业实践的专业话语之间的强烈融合。这个时期的领域；融合在随后的几十年中逐渐减弱。