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Peer reviewedCrossman, Lenard H. – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1980
The peer self-help group approach used by Alcoholics Anonymous can be a model for other types of adult learning. The group's power, solidarity, experience sharing, and values clarification can provide positive social and educational experiences to others such as the chronically unemployed, illiterate adults, and high school dropouts. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Group Discussion, Group Guidance
Download full textWimpelberg, Robert K. – 1984
Voluntary organizations providing inservice activities for principals are the newest in the administrative development field. This paper explores those organizations' prospects, particularly the voluntary, administrator-directed "principals' center," and borrows its analytical framework from theories of group formation. The Principals' Center in…
Descriptors: Administrators, Agency Role, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
