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McLoughlin, David – Adult Education, 1971
This study investigated the influence of participation in program planning on achievement and attitude. Results: adults participating in program planning seem to have more positive attitudes about their educational experiences; no evidence found that participation in program planning affects achievement. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Students, Participation
Fingeret, Arlene – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1989
When traditional approaches to literacy programs and learners are examined critically, a new participatory paradigm that recognizes learners' capacities to shape and control program development emerges. (Editor)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Literacy Education, Participative Decision Making, Program Development
Cole, J. William, Jr.; Glass, J. Conrad, Jr. – Adult Education, 1977
Describes a study investigating the influence of adult student participation in program planning. Conclusions were that (1) adult student participation appears to affect positively student achievement, (2) no evidence was found to support the prediction that participation in classroom planning positively influences retention of information, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Students, Educational Research
Jurmo, Paul – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1989
Learner-centered literacy programs in the United States have developed a range of participatory practices for instructional and management purposes. Participation can occur on a number of levels; learner participation can serve any of three purposes: efficiency, personal development, or social change. (Editor)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Literacy Education, Outcomes of Education, Participative Decision Making
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Cervero, Ronald M.; Wilson, Arthur L. – Adult Education Quarterly, 1994
Explains four theoretical concepts: power, interests, negotiation, and responsibility. Combines them into a theory of program planning that encourages adult educators to nurture a democratic process, taking into account the power relations that support or threaten it. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Democracy, Educational Planning, Politics of Education
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Thompson, Melody M. – PAACE Journal of Lifelong Learning, 1992
Adult learner participation in program planning is accepted more in theory than in practice. Resistance to change and contextual constraints inhibit its implementation. Strategies addressing these two obstacles can encourage participation in situations where it meets learners' educational needs. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students, Program Development
Adams, Doris Hill – 1971
This study focused on the development of an organizational model for an inservice training program for teachers of disadvantaged adults in a central Georgia school system, with emphasis on the importance of understanding the motives or causal factors that lead to participation. Information was obtained from teachers and students about factors that…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disadvantaged, Inservice Teacher Education, Models
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Sugnet, Charles J. – Change, 1976
Since 1970 North Hennepin Community College in Minneapolis has enrolled 3,411 in its Seniors on Campus program for senior citizens. The key to initiation and continuing development of the program described here is involvement of senior citizens themselves in the Senior Advisory Committee. (JT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Citizen Participation, Community Colleges
Crew, Edith; Lewis, John L. – 1990
A proposed approach to the generation of a graduate professional culture is grounded in the planned, systematic involvement of students in developing and sustaining a graduate adult education program. The approach has a conceptual basis in the works of Jahns and Urbano (1986), who presented a framework of developmental stages toward completion of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Advocacy, Case Studies
Imel, Susan – 1982
This fact sheet offers guidelines to consider when developing educational programs for adults. Characteristics of adults which affect learning are discussed under the following headings: adult life cycle; time orientation geared toward immediacy; broad base of experience; independent self-concept; and social roles. The importance of allowing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Cervero, Ronald M.; Wilson, Arthur L. – 1994
This practical guide to the process of planning educational programs for adults explains the key challenges of planning in the real world of conflicting interests and power relations. Part 1 draws attention to the importance of program planning practice in adult education (Chapter 1) and offers a model of what adult educators actually do when…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Planning, Models
Mostad, James; Carpentier, Dale – Agricultural Education, 1976
Presents a session by session description of a "meats" class, which is offered to high school students (9-week period) and adults (8-week period). The classes cover identification of cuts (beef, sheep, hogs, and veal; grades and grading of live animals and carcasses; economics of butchering and cutting your own meat; actual slaughtering; and the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Food Processing Occupations, Laboratory Equipment
Roberts, Susan; Dedrick, Angie; Mitchell, Graham – 1998
This report describes a project initiated at Westlawn Junior High School, Edmonton (Canada), in which the Community Development Office of Capital Health (CDO) worked with students using the asset-based community building approach. Focus was on the discovery, connection, and mobilization of the students' assets and gifts and connecting these with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Coordination, Community Development, Community Programs
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Jacobs, G. J.; van Loggerenberg, C. M. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1996
Describes a Rand Afrikaans University (South Africa) program to prepare learners for lifelong, self-directed learning. Components include reduced classroom contact, increased independent study, use of a modular study guide, optimum student participation, and continuous evaluation. Focuses on the seven-year process of transforming the project into…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries
Narang, R. H. – 1989
Efforts at education for all in India began with the expansion of the night school concept in the late 1800s. The government took responsibility for adult education in 1937. With independence came general acceptance of the broader concept of adult education. Despite literacy efforts through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the number of illiterate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, College Faculty, College Role
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