The development of adult education in the Detroit area during the years 1875-1932 was intimately tied to the social, political, and economic events of that time span. Data gleaned from census records, Board of Education minutes, old maps, street guides, labor legislation, educational legislation, church records, advertisements, alien…

Through an examination of Carnegie Corporation archives and printed materials, the author examines reasons for the Carnegie Corporation's recommendation for the formation of the American Association for Adult Education in 1926. She also analyzes the preliminary stages of the founding process. (Author/CH)

Compares a project undertaken in 1732 by William Byrd II to learn about iron mining and smelting to Allen Tough's model of the adult learning project. (CH)

Profiles the life and writing of Sam Brightman, founding editor of "Adult and Continuing Education Today" and the first journalist to devote full-time to covering adult education. (SK)

Depicts adult education in Britain 30 years ago through description of the Kesgrave Evening Institute from 1965-69. Notes differences then and now in culture and value systems and similarities such as ongoing discussion of the adequacy of provision and differentiation between recreational and nonrecreational classes. (SK)

Reviews the history of the "Australian Journal of Adult Education," predecessor of "Australian Journal of Adult and Community Education," since its founding in 1961, including editors, format, components, contributors, and topics. Highlights its contribution to the legitimization of adult education as a discipline in Australia. (SK)

Describes the achievements of Frank Laubach, founder of Laubach Literacy International, pioneer of a pragmatic method of literacy instruction and advocate of volunteer literacy tutoring. Compares Laubach's ideas with those of Paulo Freire. (SK)

The author reviews the history of the Australian Association of Adult Education (AAAE) since 1970. Funding and the role of the association are discussed, as well as significant changes in the field. The major activity of this period, the Audit Conference of 1978, is a point of focus. (CH)

The author presents a biography of Antonio Gramsci and discusses the influence of Karl Marx on Gramsci's key ideas concerning mode of production, superstructure, hegemony, consciousness, praxis, and intellectuals. Gramsci's emphasis on adult education for socialism is discussed. (CH)

Reviews adult education provision for older learners since the 1950s, detailing Howard McClusky's constructions to the emerging discipline of educational gerontology. (SK)

This book is both a personal memoir of the author and a history of adult education in Western Canada during the first half of the twentieth century. The memoirs cover Robert England's three years as a teacher of Slawa Rural School (1920-23) in northern Saskatchewan; his cooperation with the Masonic Memorial Scholarship Scheme for fifty teachers in…

This study of selected London newspapers between 1742 and 1765 reveals that advertised educational opportunities for adults, such as public lectures, lecture courses, and private instruction, were relatively expensive. Prior to 1760 medical and scientific topics were emphasized; an emerging interest in dancing, fencing, and music is also noted.…

This study of newspaper advertisements in London and Philadelphia in the mid-eighteenth century reveals similarities in the public lectures and private instruction/evening schools offered for adults. Differences illustrate how colonial Americans were able to modify British institutions for their own needs. (SK)

The national adult education organization representing the interests of the English-speaking adult education movement in Canada has responded to changes in society. This article traces the history and development of the Canadian Association for Adult Education from its foundation in 1935. (JOW)

A review of proposals for the education of librarians in New South Wales from 1938 to the present shows that some attempts had been made to train them as teachers of adults. However, despite the overlapping philosophies of adult education and librarianship, practical cooperation between the fields remains rare. (SK)