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Saar, Ellu; Ure, Odd Bjorn; Desjardins, Richard – European Journal of Education, 2013
This article considers the role of diverse institutions in framing adult learning systems. The focus is on institutional characteristics and configurations in different countries and their potential impact on the extent of adult learning, as well as on inequalities in access to adult learning. Typologies of education and training systems as well…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Adult Learning, Access to Education, Equal Education
Scheffknecht, J. J. – 1975
The two-part report surveys tutor training in several European countries, particularly England and France, and presents a typology of adult educators. The first part deals with introductory considerations concerning tutor training in three sections: present state of tutor training in Europe, which discusses types of tutor training and general…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Classification, Educational Methods
Chertow, Doris S., Ed. – 1970
An evaluation was made of a pilot three week graduate seminar in community development offered at Syracuse University in 1970 as part of the graduate program in adult education. It also tested Robert Stake's Countenance Model, a typology or framework involving the concepts of adult education program rationale, inputs, transactions in the learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classification, Community Development, Curriculum
Richardson, Jeri Pamela – 1969
Using an institution description taxonomy, this study surveyed the Freedom Quilting Bee Cooperative (FQB) of Alabama, comprised of Negro women who make and sell folk quilts. The history of the FQB and the area served was traced from slavery through the Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and postwar years up to Martin Luther King's movement.…
Descriptors: Activities, Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Art Education