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ASPBAE Courier, 1986
This journal issue contains a series of papers concerned with exploring the role that adult education can play in developing communities. The first paper, "Major Challenges and Prospect of Adult Education for the Year 2000" (T. M. Sakya), provides an overview of adult education in Asia and the Pacific, emphasizing the vastness of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Education and Culture. – 2002
This brochure, part of a series about good practices in vocational training in the European Union, describes 10 projects that have promoted investment in human resources through training in the tourism sector to promote sustainable, or responsible, tourism. The projects and their countries of origin are as follows: (1) BEEFT, training of mobility…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Vocational Education, Community Development, Cultural Background
Taylor, Sue – 2003
A study examined how further education (FE) colleges and Local Education Authority adult education services contribute to neighborhood renewal (NR) in deprived areas and how their strategic role might develop. The National Strategy for Neighborhood Renewal was tackling deprivation in 88 of England's poorest communities by promoting the development…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Citizen Participation, Colleges
Toms, Jon; Falk, Ian; Kilpatrick, Sue – 1998
A project has been designed to identify how a non-metropolitan community consolidates and develops sustainable social and economic activity. For many authors, the political position reiterating vocational education and training (VET) as the pivotal contributor to building national economic sustainability is framed in terms of human capital…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developed Nations, Economic Development, Economic Impact
Grudens-Schuck, Nancy; Hargrove, Tasha M. – 2000
Participatory adult education programs assist individuals to substitute interdependent, mutually beneficial relationships for unrewarding, dependent relationships. Indicators of changes in dependency, however, are absent or imprecise in evaluations of participatory projects. A study explored facets of dependency by relating practitioners'…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Classroom Environment, Community Development, Community Education
Alheit, Peter, Ed.; Kammler, Eva, Ed. – 1998
This book contains 56 papers from a European conference. Representative papers include the following: "Adult Education, European Citizenship and the Role of the Regions" (Sussmuth); "Can Lifelong Learning Prevent the Breakdown of Society?" (Young); "Two Challenges to a Modern Concept of Lifelong Learning" (Alheit);…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, College Programs