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Download full textAustralian Journal of Adult Learning, 2020
Adult community Education (ACE) is a recognisable education sector that offers accessible lifelong learning opportunities that are learner-centred and needs based. The Australian ACE scan profiles the sector in terms of its programs, features and provider types. The scan outlines ACE program participants, outcomes and the policy areas they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Community Programs, Lifelong Learning
Direct linkOlinger, Andrea; Bishop, Hugh; Cabrales, Jose; Ginsburg, Rebecca; Mapp, Joseph; Mayorga, Orlando; Nava, Erick; Nunez, Elfego; Rosas, Otilio; Slater, Andre; Sorenson, LuAnn; Sosnowski, Jim; Torres, Agustin – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
This article features Language Partners, an ESL program offered at the Danville Correctional Center, a medium-security men's prison in central Illinois. The program in which prisoners teach ESL classes, supported by volunteer teacher-trainers, is a learning community with immense and sometimes unforeseen value. The authors discuss reasons for…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Criminals, Prosocial Behavior, English (Second Language)
Stewart, Trae – Educational Forum, 2012
Palestinian youth face developmental, cultural, and political barriers that impede them from fully engaging in civic life. Non-traditional, youth-centered pedagogies of engagement, like community-based service-learning (CBSL), have shown promise to motivate marginalized populations and provide space and roles for them to form individual identities…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Focus Groups, Service Learning, Interviews
Notar, Toni A. – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2008
As Literacy Outreach Coordinator for Opportunity to Read (OTR), the Watsonville (CA) Public Library literacy program, this author has recognized the concept of responsibility through example. Adult learners incorporate concepts easily when these concepts are specifically demonstrated for them by someone similar to them. Sounds simple, but putting…
Descriptors: Student Responsibility, Adult Literacy, Goal Orientation, Role Models
Basic Skills Agency, 2007
The Army began working in partnership with the Basic Skills Agency in 2000. This was formalised with the establishment of the Basic Skills Agency's National Support Project for the Army (2001) that contributes to the raising of basic skills standards in the Army by advising on, and assisting with, the development of the Army's basic skills policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Armed Forces, Basic Skills, Human Resources
Torres, Rosa-Maria – Convergence, 2004
This article is based on a broad study commissioned by Sida (Swedish International Development Agency) on the status and current trends in adult basic education in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The study included a review of relevant documentation in several languages, an electronic survey with key respondents throughout the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
