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Direct linkLinda E. Morris – Adult Learning, 2024
During CONFINTEA VII's Panel 4: "Preparing adults for the future of work" and throughout the conference, participants grappled with crafting a "transformative agenda," where adult learning and education (ALE) prepares adults for future workplaces, education is viewed as an individual right and a common good, and sustainable…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Sustainability, Futures (of Society), Education Work Relationship
Griswold, Wendy – Adult Learning, 2013
Green jobs are currently a much-discussed topic in political, economic, and educational forums. Millions of Americans would be very glad to have one. But what are they exactly? Or more pointedly, what should they be and how can the field of adult education support their development? From the perspective of a community educator who has worked in…
Descriptors: Community Education, Environmental Education, Sustainability, STEM Education
Alexander, Constance; Goldberg, Marshall – Adult Learning, 2011
Throughout the 1970's and 80's, rapidly advancing technologies, mergers and acquisitions, industry deregulation, emergence of new capital markets, and the shift to an increasingly competitive, global marketplace sparked new training needs for workers. In aerospace, auto, health care, steel, telecommunications and transportation industries, unions…
Descriptors: Labor Education, Lifelong Learning, Labor Force Development, Models
Rogers, Ethan A. – Adult Learning, 2013
Purdue University--Mechanical, Engineering, and Technology (MET) faculty and Purdue Technical Assistance Program (TAP) staff partnered with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) to create a new workforce training program and certificate exam in the field of green manufacturing. This article describes how the body of knowledge for the…
Descriptors: Training Methods, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Industry, Training Objectives
D'Amico, Deborah – Adult Learning, 2011
To provide equitable access to formal, nonformal and workplace learning, experts urge community, business, education and government partnerships. While membership in unions continues to decline and "opportunities for entry-level workers to become skilled workers is lessening," the partnership described in this article shows that it is…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Urban Universities, Partnerships in Education, Adult Education
Henschke, John A. – Adult Learning, 2005
In this article, the author shares his experience of how travel and adult education merged, for him, into a major emphasis in international adult education (AE) and human resource development (HRD). International ventures have been some of the most exciting and learning-filled aspects of the author's career in AE and HRD. His involvement in…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Adult Education, Human Resources, Adult Learning
