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Melis, A. – 1989
This document summarizes the proceedings of a 2-day conference on training in small and medium businesses in the European Economic Community. Some of the topics discussed by the speakers include distance learning and the importance of training for owners and managers of small and medium enterprises. A series of guides that have been prepared to…
Descriptors: Competence, Developed Nations, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries
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International Council for Adult Education, Toronto (Ontario). – 1986
A group of 10 men and women representing Africa, Asia, the South Pacific, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and North America met in Nairobi, Kenya, in October 1986 to form a training network. During the conference, the 10 representatives met together and in small groups to (1) identify and discuss some of the training programs that are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs
Rydstrom, Gunnar, Comp. – 1987
This document reports, in narrative format, the proceedings of a conference in Sweden attended by more than 40 adult educators from around the world to discuss aid to education in developing nations. The report describes the conference's two main objectives: (1) to exchange experiences about financing and supporting adult education in the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs
European Training Foundation, Turin (Italy). – 1996
These proceedings present 10 presentations and 3 working group reports from a workshop on the challenges of the new learning culture and their consequences for the partner countries of the European Union (EU). "Introduction and Summary of the Workshop" (Bernhard Buck) begins with a brief overview of distinctions between the vocational…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Development
King, Kathleen P., Ed.; Ferro, Trenton R., Ed. – 1998
This conference provided researchers and practitioners with a forum for sharing research findings that focus on the link between research and practice in adult, continuing, and community education. The proceedings consists of 17 papers and a symposium. The agenda is provided. The three invited papers are as follows: "Imprisoned Bodies--Free…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Andragogy
Guggenheim, Eric Fries – 2003
Materials from Agora 12 demonstrate that the disabled are merely another side of ourselves and training for them is a means of developing and acquiring independence and of becoming absorbed into society. A Foreword outlines the subjects of the three sessions: social solidarity and mental disability; training of the mentally psychologically…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Cost Effectiveness, Developed Nations