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Hengesbach, Theodore W. – 1978
A questionnaire was administered to determine the needs of external degree students in the South Bend, Indiana University External Degree Program. The results (48% response rate) were compared with those of an earlier study with Northwestern New York postsecondary students. It was found that 50% of South Bend students, as compared to 27% of the…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Students, Blacks
Download full textZukas, Miriam, Ed. – 1985
The focus of the conference was on the changing curriculum on continuing education, with special attention to women's education, professional education, and life experience. The following papers from the conference are included in this compilation: "Continuing Education" (Stoddart); "Women's Education and the New Technology" (Gerver); "Women in…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Andragogy
Dilworth, Robert L.; Willis, Verna J. – 2003
This book provides information and strategies on how adult educators can integrate action learning concepts in their teaching practice. The book defines action learning as going beyond the traditional idea of "learn by doing" and applies it to various organizational cultures and educational contexts. Chapter 1 introduces the origins of action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Adult Development, Adult Education
Jarvis, Peter – 2001
This book, which incorporates information gathered through research in the United Kingdom and the United States, explores the nature and importance of learning throughout the human life cycle. The following are among the topics examined: (1) learning and third age education (the emergence of education for adults, third age education); (2) learning…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
2002
The first of three papers from this symposium on cross-cultural human resource development (HRD), "Determinants of Supply of Technical Training Opportunities for Human Capital Development in Kenya" (Moses Waithanji Ngware, Fredrick Muyia Nafukho) reports findings from interviews of technical training institute department heads in Kenya…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Cherokee (Tribe), Comparative Analysis
2002
This symposium on adult learning and human resource development consists of three presentations. "Adult Learning Principles and Concepts in the Workplace: Implications for Training in HRD" (Margot B. Weinstein) reports on findings from interviews with restaurant employees who reported that training practices using adult learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Students
