Abstract This paper re-examines the position of the Tanzanian Folk Development Colleges, a national network of adult education institutions, at a time when their long-term financial assistance by the Swedish International Development Agency has come to an end and they are being transferred from the Tanzanian Government Ministry of Community Development to the Vocational Training Department in the Ministry of Education. Two key questions are whether, under the vocational training wing of the Ministry of Education, they can continue to implement a liberal adult education programme, flexible ways of working, and a commitment to social transformation, using their sectorwide networks and links with international NGO adult education movements such as the Folk High Schools of Sweden, which have made them centres for a number of nation-wide innovations; and secondly, where they can best be located within governmental administrative and budgetary regimes.

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成人教育的无家可归：坦桑尼亚民间发展学院的一些教训

摘要本文重新审视了坦桑尼亚民间发展学院的地位，这是一个成人教育机构的全国性网络，而瑞典国际开发署对它们的长期资助已经结束，这些人正从坦桑尼亚政府社区发展部改为教育部职业培训部。两个关键问题是，在教育部的职业培训部门下，他们是否可以利用其整个部门的网络以及与国际非政府组织成人的联系，继续实施自由的成人教育计划，灵活的工作方式以及对社会转型的承诺。诸如瑞典民俗中学这样的教育运动，使它们成为许多全国性创新的中心；