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Download full textAmbrose, Don; Ambrose, Valerie K. – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2013
Adults from deprived backgrounds face daunting barriers when it comes to the discovery of intrinsically motivating aspirations and the discovery and development of talents consistent with those aspirations. In contrast, privileged young people enjoy ideal conditions for establishing productive, purposeful life trajectories spiraling up toward…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Aspiration, Talent Development
Orrie, W. Y. – 1973
Described is the Mountain-Plains Education and Economic Development Project, a Federally-funded project for residential, multi-problemed, rural, disadvantaged family rehabilitation. The project, testing the Fourth National Career Education Research and Development Model (Model 4), is located at Glasgow AF 8, Montana, and serves about 180 families…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education
Gordon, Robert A.; Friedenberg, Joan E. – Vocational Education Journal, 1988
Describes special vocational education programs in New York City and San Francisco for adult immigrants. The programs offer English as a second language, office skills, survival training, counseling, and job search skills. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Asian Americans, Disadvantaged, Dropout Rate
MacKenzie, John – 1982
New Careers is an alternative adult career-training and education program that provides experienced-based career training to people in Manitoba who have had little or no opportunity to take part in formal education and employment in the labor force. The adults in training enter the program with a grade 9 educational level. They receive adult basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adults
Peer reviewedTjerandsen, Carl – Convergence: An International Journal of Adult Education, 1983
Founded in 1932 at Monteagle, Tennessee, Highlander has functioned as a residential school, serving a variety of constituencies. Throughout its history, it has sought to help disadvantaged victims of injustice and poverty, principally in the South, to learn how to change their conditions. (SSH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Citizenship Education, Community Development
Carceles, Gabriel – Prospects, 1990
Summarizes results of UNESCO's review of estimates and predictions of literacy in light of new data and revised methodology. Analyzes past trends in literacy, illiteracy rates, and prospects for future development. Suggests that the target year 2000 seems unrealistic for those most disadvantaged. Includes breakdowns for disparities by sex, age…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Developing Nations, Economic Impact, Educationally Disadvantaged
Hernandez, Isabel – 1989
This document consists of two case studies of adult education in Argentina: (1) Adult Education--Governmental and Nongovernmental Action in Latin America and (2) Education and the Elderly Population in Argentina. Each study begins with a "face sheet" on which is recorded basic information about the entity studied and the case study…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Case Studies, Developing Nations
Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. Bureau of Adult and Community Education. – 1983
A project was initiated to develop a cooperative relationship between local adult education programs and public libraries. It was hoped that this relationship would result in greater use of library services by undereducated adults. In return, it was anticipated that libraries would refer undereducated adults to adult education programs. While all…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cooperative Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Sjogren, Douglas; Jacobson, Larry – 1976
The document presents an indepth study of nine selected exemplary adult basic education (ABE) programs in Region 8: Volunteers Clearing House, Fort Collins, Colorado; Utah Navajo Development Council, Blanding, Utah; Adult Education Tutorial Program, Denver, Colorado; Project SAVE, Lemmon, South Dakota; Gates Rubber Company, Denver, Colorado;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Demonstration Programs
Lauter, Victor – 1975
Despite drastic budget cuts precipitated by the New York City fiscal crisis, and a 40 percent cut in program staff, the Division of Continuing Education (DCE) of New York City Community College in 1974-75 enrolled 9,707 adult students in 377 noncredit courses and programs, representing an increase of 1,349 students and 101 courses beyond the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Colleges, Community Services
ASPBAE Courier, 1986
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
Israeli, Eitan; Tokatli, Rachel – 1989
Two adult education programs being conducted in Israel are described in the case studies in this packet. The first case study, by Eitan Israeli, describes a school for parents, teachers, and children established in the 1950s in a distressed moshav (cooperative agricultural settlement) to improve education for both parents and children. About 60…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Central Intermediate Unit 10, Pleasant Gap, PA. – 1993
A project geared to adult educators in rural central Pennsylvania addressed the topics of recruitment and retention of students in adult education programs in order to help the educators find solutions to these problems. Seminars conducted twice during 1993 covered the following topics: methods of recruitment, overcoming text anxiety, curbing the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on Adult Education and Literacy. – 1990
In the first portion of this document, abstracts are given for 30 projects that were designed to provide basic skills and literacy training to homeless adults in fiscal year 1989. The following information is provided for each project: state; grant award number; grantee; project title; project director, telephone number, and address; and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Escambia County Board of Public Instruction, Pensacola, FL. – 1987
In March 1985, the Escambia County School District in Florida entered a public-private partnership with more than 500 employers through the Private Industry Council and began a series of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs to meet the employment and training needs of disadvantaged youth and adults living in the local community. The…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Computer Assisted Instruction
