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Giroux, Roy F.; Pietrofesa, John J. – Canadian Counsellor, 1974
This article describes a life-skills program, in a community college, with its major objective to assist disadvantaged adults in obtaining employment opportunities. There is a need for faculty to respond to the culturally different and for new teaching consistent with learning styles of the alienated. Specific program guide-lines are presented.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Colleges, Disadvantaged
Harris, Dolores M. – 1972
Adult basic education programs must teach the "social living skills" disadvantaged adults need, as well as basic literacy skills. In creating an ABE program, one must first assess the needs of the target population--through surveys, group meetings, an advisory council of members of the target population, demographic studies, and consideration of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Hampton, Peter J. – Adult Leadership, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Communication Skills, Disadvantaged

Smith, Mary Ann; And Others – Convergence, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Disadvantaged
Sjogren, Douglas; Jacobson, Larry – 1976
The document presents an indepth study of nine selected exemplary adult basic education (ABE) programs in Region 8: Volunteers Clearing House, Fort Collins, Colorado; Utah Navajo Development Council, Blanding, Utah; Adult Education Tutorial Program, Denver, Colorado; Project SAVE, Lemmon, South Dakota; Gates Rubber Company, Denver, Colorado;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Demonstration Programs
Harrison, Laurie R. – 1976
The document contains two major sections: a 210-page catalog of viable approaches to adult career planning and development, preceded by a 25-page manual designed to facilitate use of the catalog and also to assist in planning or improving adult career guidance programs. The manual provides guidelines to five major activities (determine local…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Career Change, Career Education
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Public Service Careers Program. – 1973
The handbook describes the design and specifies the operating procedures for new careers projects funded by the Department of Labor. Such issues as the program and sponsor standards, eligibility requirements, contracting, reporting and self-appraisal systems, jobs in the human services and technical assistance are explained in detail and specific…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
Schulz, Harriette – 1975
The publication contains abstracts and annotated bibliographical references of research projects and programs in adult basic education. The projects and programs cited represent the results of a survey to search out studies that delineate project population, methods, materials, and results. The survey was designed to limit the time period covered…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Adult Education
Delta Opportunities Corp., Greenville, MS. – 1972
The Adult Education Component of the Delta Opportunities Corporation (DOC) operated learning centers in four Mississippi delta counties for educationally disadvantaged rural poor adults. The centers served an excess of 200 participants, preparing them for General Education Development Tests (GED) and providing prevocational and adult basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Career Counseling, Disadvantaged
Barnes, Curtis, Ed.,; Splete, Allen, Ed. – 1969
Syracuse University is supporting or initiating 135 programs directed toward problems of the disadvantaged and the urban community. Many programs evolve from the University's teaching and research functions, and others are less structured and operate on a volunteer basis. The programs have five categorical functions: improving educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Black History, Community Services
Detroit Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Continuing Education. – 1971
The project attempted to involve uneducated and undereducated and/or unemployed and underemployed young adults in an education-tutorial-employment oriented program. The report discusses the result of a review of the project's efforts and suggests changes where needed to achieve sound and humane urban-oriented educational practices. The program was…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Black Education
Chern, Hermine J.; And Others – 1978
This document is a compendium of evaluations of 27 federally funded vocational education programs in the school district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as of the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1978. Six projects which were scheduled but not implemented are briefly described. Twenty-four of the implemented projects were concerned directly with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Course Evaluation, Disadvantaged
Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Univ. Extension. – 1972
The Rural Family Development (RFD) Project endeavored to instruct disadvantaged adults in basic skills through a home-based, multi-media system. The report, the last of three, is divided into three sections. The first (18 pages) contains five essays defining the basic positions taken by the RFD staff and discussion of the influences these…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Annual Reports
Saskatchewan NewStart, Inc., Prince Albert. – 1972
The Life Skills course of Saskatchewan NewStart uses concepts and techniques from education, social work, and behavior sciences to develop new types of programs which stress personal competence in dealing with problems. This book describes the Life Skills course and gives examples of how problem solving skills are taught. Other chapters deal with…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Behavioral Objectives, Course Content, Course Evaluation
Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, New Delhi (India). – 1971
The Asian Regional Seminar on Polyvalent Adult Education Centers, held during September, 1971 in Bombay, was attended by individuals representing United Nations agencies, Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Phillippines, Singapore, South Vietnam, and Thailand. Seminar objectives included…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Comparative Education, Conference Reports