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Direct linkBo Chang – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
"The Changing Landscape of Adult Education" offers a comprehensive analysis of the field of adult education, tracing its evolution since the 1950s. A variety of social, political, funding, economic, and technological forces have shaped the trajectory of adult education. Spanning its historical roots in social justice movements to its…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Trends
Guile, David, Ed.; Unwin, Lorna, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2019
"The Wiley Handbook of Vocational Education and Training" offers an in-depth guide to the theories, practices, and policies of vocational education and training (VET). With contributions from a panel of leading international scholars, the Handbook contains 27 authoritative essays from a wide range of disciplines. The contributors present…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Theories, Educational Practices, Theory Practice Relationship
Download full textWright, J.W., Jr. – Academy for Educational Development, 2010
This publication is intended for three primary audiences: international development professionals who want to define "workforce" for program design purposes, those who seek information about field activities, and those who want to reflect on the implementation of successful, high impact programs--whether they were broad-based or…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Program Design, Definitions, Job Training
Hethcox, J. Henley – 1990
A survey instrument, Higher Education Economic Development Survey (HEEDS), designed to measure research administrators' perception of current involvement of state universities and land grant institutions in economic development, was developed and validated. The instrument consists of 56 items concerning presently occurring and normative economic…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Economic Development, Educational Development, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBowman, Mary Jean – Oxford Review of Education, 1991
Discusses educational equality and inequality from an economist's perspective. Considers human capital theory and interpretation of life cycles in learning and earning. Addresses schooling and experience components of changes in the inequality of earned incomes, educational expansion, and inequalities in schooling. Explores the roles of skill…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Educational Development, Educational Economics, Educational Opportunities
Straka, Gerald A. – 1984
Beginning with an overview of the development of the country's educational policy since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, this paper provides an information survey on the current state of education in the People's Republic of China. After brief sections on the relations between Chinese society and the educational system and current trends in the…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Development, Educational History
