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Alzahrani, Yassir G.; James, Waynne B. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2020
The focus of this article is to highlight adult education in Saudi Arabia. It also investigates the roles of early official and volunteering initiatives that established the adult education and literacy system in Saudi Arabia. In addition, a brief overview of the development of adult agencies such as Night Literacy Schools and Adult Education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Evening Programs
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Ceri Jones, Hywel – European Journal of Education, 2017
This is an edited version of 2 speeches given by Hywel Ceri Jones during 2017 which constitutes the story of the birth and development of the Erasmus programme to its present status as Erasmus +. In this text the place of education and training in the political and legal context of the development of the EU is highlighted. This presentation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Exchange Programs, International Educational Exchange, Program Development
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Almeida, Patrícia Albergaria; Martinho, Mariana; Lopes, Betina – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
East Timor has reached independence in 2002, after two periods of colonialism and after severe violence, especially following 1999. As a result, the country was almost destroyed, and lost its qualified workforce in all sectors, including education. To ensure national independence it is necessary to reconstruct and build the basic infrastructures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, International Cooperation, Educational History
Hiller, Gundula Gwenn – Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) (NJ3), 2010
This paper presents an intercultural training program that was developed by the Center for Intercultural Learning at the European University Viadrina in cooperation with students. A few of the student-generated activities will be described in detail. The program, aimed at enabling students to acquire intercultural competence, was developed at an…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Diezsi, Cynthia P.; Cummings, William B. – 1985
A rural district designed a unique program for gifted elementary students which allowed any teacher the opportunity to develop and teach a qualitatively different unit to students identified as gifted. The half-day once-a-week pull-out program encouraged teachers to be part of the selection process and employed a coordinator to monitor the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Gifted, Program Development, Rural Education
Clegg, Ambrose; And Others – 1978
An action research model of program planning and inservice teacher education is presented. The model systematically includes three groups of participants--teachers and paraprofessionals, parents and members of the community, and university and administrative personnel, and is called the "triangulation" model. Inherent in the design is…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Role, Community Role, Decision Making
Austin Coll., Sherman, TX. – 1976
A conference held at Austin College, focusing on educational change, discussed: (1) changing tasks and college renewal; (2) new role for students; (3) new role for faculty, including the importance of faculty development; (4) the total institutional approach; and (5) the future role of the liberal arts college. An appendix presents Austin College…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Change Strategies, College Role, Colleges
Ahnell, I. V.; And Others – 1978
The nature of staff development in education and the role that the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) and its Georgia affiliate might play in promoting staff development efforts are discussed. The identification of individual and system needs, the coordination of these needs, and the evolution of programs meeting these needs are seen as the…
Descriptors: Institutional Role, Organizational Effectiveness, Professional Associations, Program Development
Grant, James P. – 1983
Measures were proposed that would enable UNICEF, in association with others and despite prevailing difficult economic circumstances, to more effectively bring well-being and hope to hundreds of millions of children. Specific proposals were designed to help most countries accelerate child survival and development. Most particularly, it was…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Children, Developing Nations, Government Role
Hoyt, Kenneth B. – 1975
Career education, as it currently exists, is put in perspective with reference to broader and more far-reaching proposals for dealing with the education/work dilemma in the United States. In so doing, career education is pictured as a movement that operates under a "possible change" philosophy. Current strengths of career education are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Development, Career Education, Educational Change
Treffman, Stephen A. – 1976
Many organizations assign responsibility for planning, administering, and coordinating programs of training for their employees or members to a specialist whose title is usually director of education or training. Not much is known, however, about the process by which that role emerges. By studying the way training evolves in organizations where…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Programs, Industrial Training, Institutional Role
Gunning, Ann F. – 1976
Although it is not without flaws, decentralization of the school administration--returning decision-making power to school principals and classroom teachers--can contribute to a return to humanistic education and to the elimination of assembly-line education. Researchers, curriculum developers, and educational publishers can help in this movement…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Decentralization, Humanistic Education, Program Design
Bunker, Douglas R. – 1978
The Health Systems Agencies created to plan and coordinate the development of health care systems in 205 health service areas across the states have a need to be legitimized and operationalized in community contexts in order to achieve their purpose. Community psychologists have both research and consultation roles to play in contributing to…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Community Organizations, Consultants, Counselor Role
Stalcup, Robert J.; Wilson, Jerry L. – 1981
The universality of administrative functions and tasks is sufficiently established to make special preparation programs for any one group of higher education administrators unjustifiable. This thesis is based on research undertaken to determine if significant differences existed in the functions or tasks performed by presidents, vice-presidents of…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, College Administration, Higher Education
Exley, Charles M., Jr. – 1980
The following issues facing university recreation programs in the 1980's are discussed: 1) the leadership role of the university in the community, 2) disbursement of available funds, 3) collaboration between the university and community agencies, 4) professionalism in the recreation field, 5) inservice training programs for specific agencies…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Certification, Change Agents, College Role
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