The article deals with the usability of the organizational-theoretical approach in the research of voluntary study organizations and with the difficulties this approach entails. (Author)

The findings of the survey showed that participation by the various sections of the population in adult educational activities was very diverse. Participation took place relatively more among those who least required additional training, and relatively less among those for whom training would seem most essential. (Author/BP)

The article (based on the 1972-73 Adult Education in Finland Survey) is concerned with the process model representing individual activation to study seen against the background of conceptions associated with participation in adult training. The model describes and defines the dependency between social status and participation in this activity.…

The article is concerned with certain groups of conceptions held with regard to adult education: (1) reasons for participation, (2) obstacles to participation, and (3) the necessity of studies. Data are based on the results of the 1972-1973 Adult Education in Finland Survey. (Author/BP)

Results are reported for an Adult Education Research Project which attempted to resolve one of the major problems in participation studies, that of how to construct variables to represent activeness in taking educational courses which will also contain relevant information for educational planners concerning attitudes of non-participants, and will…