The growing interest in adult education and mental health work is an opportunity to return to adult education's roots in social purpose education and critical pedagogy. Although such work is often thought of as recreational or therapeutic, recasting it in terms of teaching and learning and empowerment reveals its educational dimensions. (SK)

Describes how two practicing craftspeople in Great Britain designed a part-time adult education course to increase students' awareness of design in crafts as well as to teach them survival skills of promotion and marketing. (SK)

This checklist for adult educators helps them evaluate the current position and needed action of their practices in three areas: entitlement curriculum, environmentally friendly resource use, and eco-networking. (SK)

The legislated abolition of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) has resulted in a catastrophic decline in adult education, a market approach as opposed to ILEA's equal opportunities policies, reduction in staff, and narrowing of curricular focus. (SK)

Responses from 80 British local education authorities showed awareness of the growing population over 50, cited curriculum changes in response to their educational needs, and revealed how they were attempting to deal with financial constraints by creative partnerships with other government and community agencies. (SK)

As more and more adults enter higher education, adult issues begin to influence the agendas of these institutions. Adult/continuing education in universities is structured as separate departments, specialized centers within departments, specialized universities (such as the Open University), and mainstreamed into university departments. (SK)

This checklist on women's issues to evaluate educational programs asks questions about access to education, bias-free curricula, nontraditional programs, employment training, child care, financial arrangements and fee policies, and fair and nondiscriminatory staff. (SK)