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TADROS, SAMY S. – 1960
A SURVEY MADE OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH RELATED TO TELEVISION CONTENT AND EFFECTS ON ADULTS TURNED UP 39 PERTINENT STUDIES WHICH WERE ANALYZED USING FIVE CRITERIA OF ADULT MATURITY, GLEANED FROM THE LITERATURE. OPINIONS OF 44 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ADULT EDUCATORS REGARDING PROBLEM AREAS NEEDING RESEARCH WERE SOLICITED. IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT TELEVISION…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Citizenship Responsibility, Commercial Television
Black, Mabel – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1975
The development of adult programs of family life education in Ohio from the 1930s to the present is recounted. Approximately half the article describes a series of 12 half-hour television programs which present family life education in a soap opera format, and the research from which it was developed. (AJ)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Commercial Television, Disadvantaged
EVERLY, JACK C. – 1968
BETWEEN JANUARY 1962 AND JULY 1967, 164 INSTITUTIONS IN 44 STATES OFFERED, VIA MASS MEDIA, 1,244 CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES TO 1,685,058 PERSONS. TELEVISION WAS THE MOST WIDELY USED MEDIUM, WITH MOST GENERAL SUBJECTS AIRED OVER COMMERCIAL STATIONS. WHEN DIALOGUE BETWEEN PARTICIPANT AND INSTRUCTOR WAS NEEDED, THE TWO-WAY RADIO CONFERENCE WAS…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Commercial Television, Community Programs