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Peer reviewedMcCoy, 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
Peer reviewedTroutt, Roy – Community Services Catalyst, 1973
Dean Troutt leads the College of Liberal Studies at the University of Oklahoma, and makes a cogent argument for continuing studies for our nation's adults. (Editor)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational History
Peer reviewedMoon, Rexford G., Jr. – Liberal Education, 1979
Future Directions for a Learning Society is a program being conducted by the College Board with funds from the Exxon Corporation to study, plan, demonstrate, and develop new services in the area of adult, lifelong, recurrent, and continuing education. The initiatives and strategic actions of the program are outlined. (JMF)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
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 reviewedPerkins, Hugh V.; Robertson-Tchabo, Elizabeth A. – Educational Gerontology, 1981
Evaluated the tuition waiver program for retirees enrolled at the University of Maryland College Park. Findings suggests that a tuition waiver program serves the need of retirees to remain intellectually active, to explore academic areas, and to develop new or improve existing skills and interests. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Educational Experience, Educational Gerontology, Interests
Direct linkGreenberg, Elinor; Charland, William A., Jr. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1980
A description is given of an experimental program at Loretto Heights College which is designed for adult learners who are considering a return to school. It is concluded that the changing nature of adult's lives and their growth and development cycles offer a powerful base for quality adult education programs. (JSR)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Download full textInternational Inst. for Adult Literacy Methods, Teheran (Iran). – 1975
The document presents seven abstracts and lists 76 other first-trimester, 1975, acquisitions of the Documentation Center of the International Institute for Adult Literacy Methods, established in Tehran by UNESCO and the government of Iran. Abstracted are: (1) The Book Hunger, published by UNESCO in 1973, offering solutions to the shortage of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Education
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1982
Selected college and university programs established to assist adults in continuing their education, earning their degrees, and learning about whatever interests them are described, and an essay on lifelong learning is presented. In "Curriculum Development for Lifelong Learning," Charles S. Claxton describes how life cycle research,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Andragogy
