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Toward a Learning Society: Adult Educators Engage a World of Challenge
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Gross, Ronald – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1978
This is an interpretive report, commissioned by The College Board's Future Directions for a Learning Society project, of the National Adult Continuing Education Conference held in Detroit 29 October-2 November 1977. Themes included international lifelong learning programs, competency-based education, older persons as resources, the need for…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
Life Cycle Change: How Does it Affect the "Target Population"?
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Rivera, William M. – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1978
Considers adult educational needs according to the idea of developmental tasks along with changes in adult life cycles and calls for changes in adult education and legislation. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Age Differences, Developmental Stages
Lifelong Learning in London: 1558-1640
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Newsom, Ron – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1977
Reviews self-directed lifelong learning among adults in London from 1558-1640 as nurtured by individuals, organizations, self-improvement publications, and colleges. (EM)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Books, Educational Development
Adult Life Cycle Change
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McCoy, Vivian R. – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1977
Reports of services of the Adult Life Resource Center in the Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, and its goal of programming around adult life cycle change as the demonstration facet. Includes a chart relating adult life stage tasks to appropriate adult education program responses and possible outcomes. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Demonstration Centers, Developmental Stages
Keynote Address: National Lifelong Learning Conference.
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Dutton, Donnie – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1979
In his address to the Adult Education Association conference on January 10, 1979, the author reflects on the increasing necessity for adults to continue to learn and the marginal status of adult education. He discusses knowledge and skills obsolescence and indicates concerns for the field of adult education. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Educational Change, Educational Needs