These proceedings of a workshop on the role of adult education in the development of rural areas consists of a report on the workshop, general conclusions drawn at the workshop, and its recommendations on future works. Discussed in the workshop report are the analysis of the situation in rural areas and specific development needs of rural areas,…

The purpose of the workshop reported here was (1) to share and exchange information from a national survey of the status of competency-based adult vocational education instruction and (2) to assist the participants in implementing or expanding competency-based programs. Contents include four groups of workshop presentations. Three are general…

More than 1,500 educators at the National Adult Education Conference probed issues ranging from competency-based teaching, through the lifelong growth of adult educators themselves, to national concerns which gave the conference its "5E" theme: employment, ethics, education, environment, and energy. Presentations given at the conference focused on…

This document contains 20 papers on lifelong education presented at a conference on aging. The papers, grouped into themes of trends and implications, resourceful roles (students and learners, teachers and mentors) and an agenda for the future, include the following: "Demographic Potential and the Quiet Revolution" (Opening Remarks by Robert A.…

The conference proceedings reported in this publication represent the deliberations, problems, and prospects associated with adult education as a field of academic inquiry. The following papers or summaries are included: "Adult Education Research: Issues and Directions" (Deshler, Hagan); "Comparative Perspectives for Research about…