Language skills are central to refugee integration and the availability of language courses could thus be a limiting factor. We explore how the most important provider of language courses in Germany, adult education centers (VHS), adapted their course supply to the refugee wave of 2015/2016. Our results highlight two channels through which the…

One of the greatest challenges in education today is to adapt and respond to a linguistically and culturally diverse world, and to combat social disintegration and discrimination. Participatory and collaborative action research represents an empowering and emancipatory approach to this challenge because the "target groups" become…

The road to a new degree program is rarely smooth. The author describes the lengthy and bumpy path to the successful creation of and approval for the first nontraditional doctorate offered at Georgetown University, the Doctor of Liberal Studies Degree (DLS). The new Doctor in Liberal Studies (DLS) required applicants to have a master's degree or…

Eastern University has moved from a distributed model to a centralized model for administration of its adult degree programs. This move involved numerous factors and motivations but one central component in the ultimate success of that move was a significant change in the role of faculty assigned to the program. Once regarded as rather ancillary…

Thirty-five years after independence the Mozambican illiteracy rate has been reduced from 93% to just over 50% according to official statistics. Although this indicates an enormous achievement in the area of education, the challenge of today still is to design appropriate adult basic education programmes including literacy, numeracy and life…

This guide is intended to assist educators in establishing and organizing consumer education programs for Americans beyond the high school years. It is primarily a tool for tailoring basic consumer curricula to the special characteristics and needs of adult students. Suggestions are given for possible content areas, illustrations are given of…

As the proceedings of a national seminar on individualized adult science education, a total of 13 articles is compiled in this volume concerning the theory and techniques of curriculum development and the individualization process in upgrading Canadian science courses. The topics include: The Characteristics and Formulation of Behavioral…

The article is a brief analysis of independent study issues which evolved from a rural perspective of law enforcement officers in adult off-campus learning programs. (Author/BP)

COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO HAS NOTED THAT ADULTS RETURNING TO THE CAMPUS ARE DOING SO WITH FAR MORE SERIOUS PURPOSE THAN THEY WERE A FEW YEARS AGO. THE TREND IS AWAY FROM AVOCATIONAL COURSES TO ONES OF OCCUPATIONAL OR CULTURAL CONTENT AND TO CREDIT COURSES RATHER THAN NON-CREDIT. THIS CHANGE TO MORE ADULT OFFERINGS HAS ALSO STIMULATED ENROLLMENT--FROM…

THE AUTHOR PROPOSES THAT--(1) AN ADULT EDUCATION CURRICULUM SHOULD BE BASED ON SPECIFIC NEEDS, INTERESTS, ABILITIES, AND GOALS, (2) SPECIFICATIONS FOR CURRICULUM MATERIALS TO BE USED SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED BY THE PROJECT STAFF, AND (3) THERE IS LITTLE OR NO COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE MATERIAL THAT WILL MEET THE ABOVE CRITERIA. GUIDELINES BY WHICH…

Author examined ways of including music in adult education programs. He referred to working with adult beginners as a "new frontier" for the profession. (Editor/RK)

Describes curriculum materials that can be incorporated into an easily managed instructional system that allows for the accurate diagnosis of each students' learning needs. (Author/LF)

The author explores the potentially significant relationship between continuing education and urban administration. Recent literature is reviewed, and the innovative master of arts program in urban-suburban administration at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut is described. (EA)

In a question-answer interview, a former national project director in Iran highlights some of the achievements in an experimental functional literacy project conducted in an agricultural area and an industrial region of Iran. (AG)