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Peer reviewedKoring, Bernhard – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1990
Critiques the current debate on adult education. Discusses adult education as an academic discipline, the function of theory in adult education, the clientele, and questions of professionalization in the field. (RW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adult Students
1998
This document contains four papers from a symposium on university instruction in human resource development (HRD). "Developing a Distance Learning HRD Baccalaureate Degree for Working Adults" (Barbara E. Hinton) documents the planning process for a distance learning baccalaureate HRD degree option and presents a 10-step distance learning model…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Bachelors Degrees
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1981
Three documents and eight journal articles on staff development (focusing particularly on inservice teacher education), selected from those recently made available through the ERIC system, are described briefly in this report. Topics covered by the items listed include enhancing teachers' perceptions of themselves, identifying workable staff…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education
Kleiber, Pam, Comp.; Tisdell, Libby, Comp. – 1990
The proceedings contains: "Extending Equality" (Armstrong); "Phenomenology of Emergent Meaning from Dialectical Questioning and Answering in Adult Learning (AL)" (Xue-Ming Bao); "Study of Structural Dimensions and Predictive Capability of Adult Attitudes toward Continuing Education Scale and Education Participation Scale" (Blunt); "Ideological and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Adult Higher Education Alliance. – 2001
These proceedings included the following papers: "The Language of Interdisciplinary Programs or 'What Do You Mean By That?'" (Ezzell, Turner); "When Mothers Become Students: Impact on Children and the Family System" (Burns, Gabrick); "Multi-Discipline Theorizing Meets the Blackboard: The Evolving Discourse Community"…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Odgaard, Gunde – 1999
In forestry, as in other fields, technological advances have resulted in significant changes in work practices and skill requirements. Vocational training and improvement of forestry workers' skills through lifelong learning can help achieve sustainability in forestry. The objectives of lifelong learning are to integrate people into working life…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Apprenticeships, Career Development
Jones, Cheryl A.; Anderson, Mike – 2001
This document, which is intended for mangers at post-16 educational institutions in the United Kingdom, presents guidelines for managing curriculum change that were developed on the basis of case studies of the following further education (FE) colleges: Grey Skies College; Midshire College; and Happy Days College. The introduction explains how the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Attitude Change, Case Studies
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Coll. of Education. – 1996
Includes the following among 52 papers: "Accelerated Degree Programs" (Anderson et al.); "Basic Skills in the Workplace" (Askov); "Breaking All the Rules" (Baird); "Data Mining for Factors Affecting the Implementation of Interactive, Computer-Mediated Instructional Techniques for Students at a Distance"…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Hudson River Center for Program Development, Glenmont, NY. – 2001
This document is intended to help adult education program managers throughout New York become oriented to the world of adult education, handle their new responsibilities as program managers, and obtain up-to-date information to assist them in making educational and administrative decisions. The following are among the topics discussed in the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Administrator Guides, Adult Education
Dean, Gary J.; Murk, Peter J.; Del Prete, Tony – 2000
This book, which is intended as a resource for individuals and organizations involved in adult and community education, presents guidelines and activities to assist in enhancing organizational effectiveness in adult and community education. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) experiencing professional and organizational development…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
Hrimech, Mohamed, Ed. – 1999
This document contains 35 papers and 4 symposia/poster sessions presented at a Canadian conference on the study of adult education. The following papers are among those included: "Adult Education on the Internet: New Dawn Breaking or Sky Falling?" (Archer); "'Shapeshifting': Negotiating Identity in First Nations Adult…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Educators
Poonwassie, Deo H., Ed.; Poonwassie, Anne, Ed. – 2001
This document contains 20 papers on the fundamentals of adult education and foundations, practices, and issues for lifelong learning. The following papers are included: "The Metamorphoses of Andragogy" (James A. Draper); "Stages in the Development of Canadian Adult Education" (Gordon Selman); "Philosophical…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education and Literacy. – 1997
The 12 programs selected as 1996 winners of the Secretary's Awards for Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy Programs illustrate a diverse range of promising practices for the 21st century. Winners were selected based on the presence of 10 elements, including the following: effective and potentially replicable practices; measurable objectives…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Freer, Kevin, Ed.; Dean, Gary, Ed. – 1993
The following are the papers presented at a research-to-practice conference: "Influence of Age on Students Perceptions of College Experience" (Bishop-Clark, Lynch); "Impact of Education on Adult Students" (Cupp); "Identifying Critical Factors of Quality" (Lund, Brown); "It's Never Too Late" (Rosenberg et al.); "Adult Vocational Student Dropout and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
