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Edosomwan, Simeon; Peterson, Claudette M. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
Storytelling is a powerful process in adult education as a useful instructional approach in facilitating adult instruction and learning, especially during preliterate eras. What began as oral tradition has evolved to include written literature. A popular Eurocentric perspective in the early 19th century was that before the arrival of Europeans…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral History, Social History, Story Telling
Thompson, LaNette W. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2015
Literacy is the gatekeeper to modern information. In the world today, approximately 740 million adults are excluded from adult education if that education uses literate instructional strategies. Nearly 3/4 of a billion adults, many of whom speak unwritten languages, do not use reading to learn new information nor share information through writing.…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Adult Education, Language, Oral Tradition
Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed.; Avoseh, Mejai, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2015
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: International Education, Adult Education, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Students