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Download full textHoyt, Kenneth B.; And Others – 1979
The three papers compiled here provide educators and others involved in career education with some information regarding the relationship of career education and organized labor. The first paper, a conference speech by Peter A. Bommarito, President of the United Rubber Workers, presents an official policy statement on career education from the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Planning, Education Work Relationship, Educational Objectives
Prentice, Dinah, Ed. – 1978
This document is one in a series of three monographs developed by the National Association of State Boards of Education and designed to acquaint the reader with consumer education issues and how they affect policies. Included in these monographs are articles on what should be taught as part of consumer education, how consumer education programs…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Business, Consumer Education, Economics Education
Aspeslagh, Robert, Ed.; van den Berg, Jannie, Ed. – 1991
This reader on literacy provides a clear account of the major perspectives on literacy and adult education through 20 papers divided into three categories. An introduction provides an overview of the content of the papers. Part 1, "Issues," contains seven papers: "Literacy: Access to Power" (Dijkstra); "Development and the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations
Horton, Aimee Isgrig – 1989
This book reviews the history of the Highlander Folk School (Summerfield, Tennessee) and describes school programs that were developed to support Black and White southerners involved in social change. The Highlander Folk School was a small, residential adult education institution founded in 1932. The first section of the book provides background…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Blacks, Change Agents
Draper, James A., Ed. – 1998
In this document, leading educators from 12 African Commonwealth countries trace the development of adult education in Africa and show how providers of adult education outside the formal education system (including government and nongovernment organizations, trade unions, women's groups, and religious organizations) have met the needs of their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change
American Vocational Association, Arlington, VA. – 1983
This yearbook includes 24 papers dealing with collaboration between the vocational education and private sectors. Presented first are the following papers on the foundation for collaboration: "The Changing Nature of Work and Workers" (Joseph F. Coates), "Jobs with a Future" (Marvin J. Cetron), "The Mission of Vocational…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Apprenticeships, Business, Case Studies
Knowles, Malcolm S. – 1994
This book, which is a revised version of a book first published in 1962, examines the present state of the field of adult education (AE) by examining its origins and patterns of growth. Part 1, which traces the emergence of institutions for the education of adults, covers the following topics: colonial foundations and antecedents in 1600-1779…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agricultural Education, Apprenticeships
