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Sheats, June Dow – Adult Leadership, 1974
An experimental open air school for adults and youth which meets weekly in Chapultepec Park offers arts and crafts, vocational studies, languages, literacy, theater, sports, and other courses in a flexible format. (MS)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Experimental Curriculum, Experimental Programs, Experimental Schools
Knox, Alan B. – Cogito - Knowledge and Action in Adult Education, 1971
Purpose of this essay is to propose a better method for interrelating knowledge and action so that education is more relevant. The approach is called an Action Seminar. The success of any method will be greater if learners and mentors engage in activities that they consider appropriate and important. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Experimental Curriculum
Dyer, Caroline; Choksi, Archana – Compare, 1997
Recounts the creation of an ethnographic study of literacy acquisition among nomadic pastoralists in Gujarat (India). Describes the project's goals and methods, research problems, and experiments with Regenerated Freirean Literacy Through Empowering Community Techniques (REFLECT) methods for literacy learning. Concludes with suggestions for future…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Experimental Curriculum, Experimental Programs, Foreign Countries