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Download full textMiller, Richard H. – 1973
This study investigated the use, effectiveness, and need for student personnel services for mature women (over 25) in degree programs. Additional data were collected on personal and academic characteristics, educational goals, and problems encountered. Major findings indicated that 41 percent of the sample were employed and that 76 percent…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1982
Selected college and university programs established to assist adults in continuing their education, earning their degrees, and learning about whatever interests them are described, and an essay on lifelong learning is presented. In "Curriculum Development for Lifelong Learning," Charles S. Claxton describes how life cycle research,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Andragogy
Baker, Janette, Ed. – University Education News, 1981
Theories on adult development and learning and some of the Ontario universities' programs and services for the adult learner are examined, and Athabasca University, Alberta's answer to the British Open University, is described. Peter O'Donnell discusses adult learners' needs and explains how Athabasca University serves this specific type of…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Alliance, an Association for Alternative Degree Programs. – 1993
The following papers are included: "Forms of Marginality" (Thompson); "Growing the Circle" (Francis); "The Seamless Continuum" (Prince); "Interlinking American and Adult Values" (Tichy); "A Student's Journey into Multicultural Education" (Moorey); "From Shared Vision to Organizational…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Merriam, Sharan B., Ed.; Cunningham, Phyllis M., Ed. – 1989
This handbook contains 48 articles on adult and continuing education. Part 1, which deals with adult education as a field of professional practice, includes articles on such topics as the social and historical contexts of adult and continuing education, adult education and international development, the voluntary sector and adult education, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning
