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Turner, Michael – 1987
The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) was founded in 1912 for the purpose of encouraging and supporting existing educational provision provided by the local authority, university, and other local educational institutions; working to stimulate and promote the interest of the working class in liberal arts studies; and making recommendations to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Change, Educational History, Extension Education
Liveright, A. A.; Goldman, Freda H. – 1965
This paper, published in 1965, identifies contemporary developments in adult and continuing education in three categories: a new climate and milieu, institutional changes, and new program developments. The following evidence of a new climate and milieu is discussed: broader scope and wider acceptance of adult education; more federal activity in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, College Programs, Continuing Education
Blackburn, Donald J. – 1986
Although the formal extension work in Canada has been patterned after the United States Cooperative Extension Service to a considerable degree, there are some important differences between the extension education systems in the two countries. The public, private, and voluntary sectors all play significant roles in Canada's extension and technology…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Coordination, Educational Cooperation
Download full textAdrian, Judith G.; And Others – 1993
This report describes the National Extension Leadership Development (NELD) Program. Section I offers interns' reflections on the meaning of NELD in Wisconsin. Section II is a history of NELD. Section III presents minutes of meetings of the National Advisory Committee. Sections IV-X provide overviews of the various programs offered through NELD in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cultural Differences, Extension Agents, Extension Education
US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
During the early part of the present century it became clear that in our efforts to emphasize general education we were neglecting vocational education. The agitation to correct that defect resulted in the passage of the Smith-Hughes law in 1917 and the development of an effective system of vocational education "of less than college…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education
Shelby, Thomas H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This report concerns itself with the growth and progress of "general" university extension for the biennial period 1922-1924. By general university extension is meant extension activities of universities and colleges in the fields not covered by agricultural and home economics extension under the Federal subsidy acts through the Federal land-grant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Federal Legislation
