The Accelerating Opportunity initiative helps our nation's lowest-skilled adults earn college credentials and enter higher-wage jobs faster by combining the Adult Basic Education and career and technical training they need into one integrated curriculum. Based on four years of designing and managing Accelerating Opportunity, Jobs for the Future…

This paper deals with specific characteristics of elders,1 bearing in mind both their cognitive and their non-cognitive aspects. Regarding their way of learning, the paper refers to basic principles for this group of people: active learning, situational analysis, their experience, awareness that they have--and need--specific time and rhythm for…

This paper reports on the findings of a small qualitative research project that examined the experiences of a group of adult learners attending a basic skills programme in the English Midlands during the late 1990s. It explores patterns of participation on such programmes and illustrates that early life course experiences can shape changing…

An adult education correspondence program involving programed and nonprogramed materials, including telephone and personal contacts between student and teacher. (SP)

This handbook is intended to assist adult basic education (ABE) staff members to increase their effectiveness as counselors. The underlying philosophy is that each ABE student has unique characteristics, expectations, and abilities which should make the teacher-student relationship individualized. The counselor of adults must know his own…

Huntsville, Alabama, is known chiefly in connection with rocketry, but many local citizens think first of its work in adult education. (Editor)

Describes Rural Family Development (RFD), a demonstration project which takes adult education into the home by way of weekly TV shows, specially prepared instructional bulletins, and person-to-person contact with trained home visitors. (ML)

Based on the assumption that something is fundamentally wrong at its definitional roots about the concept of adult education upon which the profession is organized, this paper identifies seven troubling characteristics of the profession. These characteristics, which stem from failure to root the definition in philosophical foundations, are (1) the…

Outlines the goals, learning environment, recruitment strategies, and program procedures of the basic adult education program in the U.S. Included are statistical tables. (GB)

After recapitulating certain problems with current conceptions of the profession of adult education and stating a design problem for the reinvention of the field, this paper argues that adult education can best be seen as "self-education." A beginning definition and concept of that term is described, along with a model and supporting guides for…

The human cognitive system may have a developmental property that makes acquisition of fluent reading skills difficult after a certain age. This problem may be seen to affect two different populations: participants in adult literacy programs who lacked access to schools as children and educated adults fluent in languages with non-Latin scripts.…

This analytical bibliography describes a group of selected documents that examine the current status and extent of development of adult education in Latin America. Documents were selected for inclusion based upon their focus on and concern for international and national goals and needs of adult education programs and for distribution to countries…

This training manual was developed as a source of information about Competency-Based Adult Basic Education (CBABE) for administrators, counselors, and teachers involved in the implementation of a CBABE program. After section I provides an introduction to Brevard Community College's development of CBABE curricula, section II explains the purposes…

This book is a collection of writing by students taking part in an adult basic education project from London and the North West of England. It illustrates ways students could think about and describe their experiences in as many ways as possible--on tape, in groups, and through writing. The writing is collected in five chapters. Chapter 1 offers…

Each year one week is designated by the Governor of New York as Adult Learning Week because of the growing importance of adult education to society and the economy of New York State. The major purpose of Adult Learning Week is to promote greater public awareness of the availability and variety of learning opportunities for adults. In practical…