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This journal issue contains a series of papers concerned with exploring the role that adult education can play in developing communities. The first paper, "Major Challenges and Prospect of Adult Education for the Year 2000" (T. M. Sakya), provides an overview of adult education in Asia and the Pacific, emphasizing the vastness of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
D'Amico, Deborah – Literacy Leader Fellowship Program Reports, 1997
This review attempts to clarify adult education's role in moving individuals from welfare to work. Part 1 reviews research on this role, job prospects for low-skilled workers, and literacy requirements of workplaces. Part 1 reports these findings: the likelihood of being on welfare goes up as literacy goes down; a labor force attachment approach…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Agency Role
Adult Education and Development, 1985
This journal issue contains 18 solicited articles on two major topics: adult education and the elderly, and the literacy debate. The articles on adult education and the elderly include "A Ripe Old Age," republished from a newsletter of the British aid organization OXFAM; "Special Programme for Retirees: A Model Project in Cali, Colombia," by…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Nossen, Robert J., Ed. – PAACE-SETTER, 1984
The bulk of this issue consists of five articles providing insight into various phases of adult continuing education. "The Meliorist Position as a Philosophic Base for Adult Education" (Gordon Clay Godbey) examines these questions about meliorism: should we accept as natural improvement of the human condition, the constant wars, the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
