This study was targeted to assess adult education program implementers' understanding towards adult education policy documents and usage of the documents in Addis Ababa City Administration. In order to guide the study qualitative method was applied. Accordingly, qualitative data was gathered using interview and document analysis. Qualitative data…

Policy on educational gerontology seems a relatively recent subfield in most countries' social policies. The concept of education for older adults did not appear in Taiwan's political discourse until 1980. The purposes of this paper are to provide an overall introduction to the development of educational gerontology policies and practices in…

This report details a plan for adult education in Connecticut. It reviews the current state of adult education services and recommends a series of important steps to help meet adult education needs through the year 2000. A four-phase planning process that was used to focus on the critical issues and identify specific actions to meet adult…

The development of lifelong education in England has been slow due to the dualist educational philosophy characteristic of the English middle and upper classes. The two governing characteristics of British adult education have been its predominant concentration of provision for the working classes and its preoccupation with the liberalizing role…

The booklet is designed to provide for a non-professional audience a summary of ideas on the scope, purpose, and concepts of adult education in Tasmania. It discusses the definition of adult education, states seven characteristics of adult education in Australia (flexibility, ethos, participation, coverage, non-class activities, decentralization,…

The educational policies and programs of the Pathet Lao are examined in some detail in this report. The first section looks generally at the colonial legacy and present context. Because of the meager resources made available for education under the French and the deprived conditions prevailing in what became the Pathet Lao zone, educational policy…

After briefly describing the state of adult basic education in the southeast prior to 1969, the author focuses on a three-year plan for building teacher-training resources throughout the region formulated by state directors of adult education in the Southeast in late 1969. (Author/JM)

Discusses Congress's move toward a coherent Federal policy on adult education amid evidence that existing programs are not reaching those who seem to need them most. (Author/RK)

Based on his tour of Sweden, the author discusses the cultural, political, and methodological conditions leading to Sweden's highly developed involvement in adult education and recommends for emulation Sweden's emphasis upon student participation, the local coordination by local education councils, and especially, their simple but successful…

Urban community development has often become indistinguishable from community organization; other-direction, bureaucratic control, and lack of real community have diluted the original emphasis on activity-learning and attitude-changing. Consideration of the authors' categories (out-of-school, formal, non-formal, and informal education) might help…

The present policies and standards for the approval of separately-administered adult high schools were drafted by a task force appointed in 1971 and were adopted in March 1973. It is anticipated that the standards will aid all adult high schools to move forward to new levels of effectiveness. Policies stated relate to definition, school…

Describes adult education in the German Democratic Republic, with emphasis on the view of man's central position in the socialist society. Describes differentiations in the content and organization of educational activities. (LAS)

Authors considered the responsibility of community colleges for the education of adult students, some prerequisites for effectively dealing with adult students, and proposed a workable model for adult education in the community college. (Author/RK)