Participation has become so central to adult education for community development that even the World Bank supports participatory programming. This article analyses how participation is conceptualised in "Training for Transformation" (TfT), a Freirean-inspired curriculum used in international community development settings. TfT seeks to…

As the result of an extensive self-study for the purpose of reaccreditation, the Department of Theology at The University of Portland began offering a new series of courses called Theological Perspective Courses (THEP). THEP courses are upper division and offered by theology faculty in conjunction with another department that has required core…

The manual conceptualizes the community college mission as it is differentiated from that of the junior college, the trade institute, and the university. In a time when urbanization and industrialization have led to a loss of sense of community and when even education has become increasingly centralized and depersonalized, the community college…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report on trends in Egyptian public education and teacher training schools. The first chapter outlines the national educational objectives, which are citizenship, participation, and skill. Chapter two discusses the objectives of elementary education. The third chapter…

This document, third in a series by the Study Commission on Undergraduate Education and the Education of Teachers, is to be used in preparing the American educational community and specifically, institutions and people working at the reform of the undergraduate education of teachers, to think through the issues and plan reform programs envisaged…