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McGrath, Breeda; Kumar, Rohit – Communique, 2021
Apni Shala (Hindi for Our School) is a nonprofit educational foundation located in Mumbai, India. It was set up in 2013 to promote mental health skill development in children in local elementary schools. The goals of the program include increasing emotional literacy of children within a culturally relevant framework and destigmatizing mental…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Foreign Countries, Mental Health Programs, Elementary Schools
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Parry, Gareth, Ed.; Osborne, Michael, Ed.; Scott, Peter, Ed. – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2023
This book examines access, lifelong learning and education for all, which have been policy preoccupations in all countries for more than half a century, but have been overlaid and pushed aside by the development of mass higher education. The authors examine what has been achieved, what lessons have been learnt and what still remains to be done,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Equal Education, Personal Autonomy
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Waller, Sharon, Ed. – IntechOpen, 2021
Today's educators stand at the crossroads of globalization and technology. The world is rapidly shrinking. The workplace is being transformed before our very eyes. Technology is forever changing the way we perceive reality and the way we do business. Educators are required to equip students for a workplace that has yet to emerge. The skill sets of…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Technological Advancement, Career Readiness, Libraries
Hanemann, Ulrike, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
This compilation offers global examples of innovative and promising literacy and numeracy programmes that link the teaching and learning of literacy to sustainable development challenges such as health, social equality, economic empowerment and environmental sustainability. This publication is a timely contribution to the 2030 Agenda for…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Literacy, Numeracy, Lifelong Learning
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Patel, Sheela – Convergence: An International Journal of Adult Education, 1988
The Society for Promotion of Adult Resource Centres was created to alleviate the problem of railway settlement families and pavement dwellers in Bombay, India. The area resource center provides information, analysis of available resources, discussion of problems, and sharing of experiences. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Centers, Community Resources, Developing Nations
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Ahuja, Abba; Sharma, Neeta; Tiwari, Shashi – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2000
Examined the preferences of mothers from two rural villages in India for existing child care arrangements in comparison with community child care and the community's opinions regarding child care arrangements or practices. Found that the most popular child care arrangement was using grandparents as caregivers, followed by community child care…
Descriptors: Community Centers, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Foreign Countries
Saxena, J. C., Ed.; Sachdeva, J. L., Ed. – 1990
Seminars, symposia, panel discussions, and papers are recorded in these proceedings of a conference on what adult education should do to improve the quality of life of the Indian people. Contents are as follows: "Seminar on National Literacy Mission (NLM)" (Sinha et al.); "Symposium on Adult Education in the 1990s" (Bordia et…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Citizenship Education, Community Centers
Saxena, J. C., Ed.; Sachdeva, J. L., Ed. – 1989
The conference reported in this document was convened by the Indian Adult Education Association in collaboration with the Adult Continuing Education & Extension Centre of Marathwada University. Attended by 230 delegates from throughout India, the conference focussed on ways of developing an all-out attack on the country's huge illiteracy…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Articulation (Education), Community Centers