In this paper, we examine the post-secondary plans and attainment of adult learners in Toronto, Ontario. We first describe the population of adult learners in Canada's largest city, describing how they are largely made up of immigrants who use the continuing education adult day programs at the Toronto District School Board to upgrade their skills.…

College and universities underwent tremendous shifts in the latter part of the 20th century caused in part by the shrinking pool of college ready 18 year-olds. Concerned about diminishing enrollments and lost revenue from traditionally-aged students, administrators at faith-based, tuition-driven universities instituted adult degree completion…

The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. These papers are from the CIAE 2020 Virtual International…

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how participants learn in small business advisory programmes and to explore the impact of these learning programmes on the development of reflective learning dispositions in participants. The research involves two case studies of small business advisory programmes in Queensland, a state of Australia. One…

North Park University's adult program has moved steadily from a centralized governance structure toward a more distributed structure in many ways. The School of Adult Learning hires its own faculty, some of whom are full time in the adult program. The school also has autonomy over academic policy. Ultimately, this academic autonomy has fostered…

Examines differences in teaching adults as compared to younger learners. Discusses variations in background and expectations, reasons for taking courses, applying what is learned, fears of not fitting into school settings, and fears of not achieving. (CT)

An address given before the Australian Universities Conference in May 1971, in which the director of the Department of Adult Education, University of Sidney, urged that there is an important role for universities to play in the provision of facilities for continuing education, and that their present provisions in this field ought to be…

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…

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)

Based on bibliographies in Arthur Chickering's "The Modern American College," a search in the ERIC database, a manual search in "Library Literature," and additional sources, this annotated bibliography presents 57 items on the evolving relationship between the independent adult learner and the public library. These sources of information examine…

An explanation of the Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is offered in this paper. At Jefferson College in Missouri, the CEU is an evaluative unit used in awarding a Continuing Education Diploma. The CEU is defined as ten contact hours of participation in an organized continuing education experience under responsible leadership, capable direction and…

Robert von Erdberg advocated an intensive, individualized education for the working classes to wield them together with other groups in Germany after unification in 1871. This attempt to help the workers socially and economically revolutionized the concept of adult education. (DS)

Argues that an understanding of the dynamics of life transitions is crucial to effective adult education programs. Examines the "stage/phase" theory of transitions, maintaining that transitions occur in predictable sequences, and the "life event" theory, which views transitions as the result of social processes. (22 citations) (MAB)

A study was done of adult students at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in 1991 to gather information on the characteristics of this population. A survey instrument defined the non-traditional student or adult learner as any student over the age of 24 attending MTSU. A total of 1,200 surveys were sent to full-time students, and 300…