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Lahtinen, Marja-Liisa – Adult Education in Finland, 1978
The article describes stages in the development of the municipally owned "workers' institutes" to provide education for adults in Finland and the now more common "civic institutes" with public or private sponsorship. Included are administrative structure, financing, staff, students, facilities, teaching arrangements, subjects…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Continuing Education Centers
Literacy Work, 1974
The merging of the concept of education into a worldwide pattern of lifelong learning is reviewed and implications explored in the areas of needs, costs, organizational aspects, directions for research, and elements for strategies. Summarized reports are presented of the experiences of Peru, Cuba, and Algeria with continuing education programs.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedConvergence, 1974
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
