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Download full textResearch Management Corp., Dover, NH. – 1987
This guidebook is designed as a workbook and resource for workshop participants at regional meetings on bilingual vocational training (BVT). Since the book was intended to be introduced as parts of lecture, discussions, or participatory exercises in the workshops, not all is necessarily self-explanatory. The book treats only selected topics in…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Programs, Bilingual Education
Bhola, H. S. – 1982
Addressed to professionals involved in program evaluation, this working paper covers various aspects of evaluation planning, including the following: planning as a sociotechnical process, steps in evaluation planning, program planning and implementation versus evaluation planning and implementation, the literacy system and its subsystems, and some…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Evaluation Methods
St. Clair, Donald D. – 1982
This guide, which is geared toward faculty at institutions of higher education that are in the process of developing a program for working adults in a community with a strong unionized working force, presents guidelines for establishing and developing a working relationship with a labor advisory board. The rationale behind establishing such a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Cooperative Planning
Smith, Wendell L. – Adult Leadership, 1974
The willingness of adult educators to undertake comprehensive program planning within our local educational communities can well spell the future of the continuing education movement in the nation. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation
Faust, P. James – Agricultural Education, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Adult Programs, Agricultural Education
Todd, John D. – Agricultural Education, 1975
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Adult Programs, Agricultural Education
FUSCO, GENE C. – 1964
A SURVEY OF PRACTICES OF SCHOOLS IN TYPICALLY DEPRESSED URBAN AREAS FROM FOUR LARGE CITIES IS PRESENTED. STAFFING AND PROGRAM PLANNING ARE DISCUSSED. PRACTICES SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED TO HELP PARENTS LEARN HOW TO PARTICIPATE MEANINGFULLY IN THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN. IN PREPARING THE PRESCHOOL CHILD, PARENT AID MAY BE ENLISTED THROUGH…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Elementary Schools, Family School Relationship
COHEN, SAMUEL I. – 1968
TRADITIONALLY ADULT JEWISH EDUCATION WAS SYNAGOGUE OR INSTITUTION SPONSORED AND ORIENTED. SINCE THE WORLD WAR II, A NUMBER OF NATIONAL JEWISH MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS HAVE EMERGED AS MAJOR SPONSORS OF ADULT JEWISH EDUCATION PROGRAMS. THIS SPONSORSHIP REPRESENTS A NEW DIMENSION IN JEWISH EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE. THIS STUDY EVALUATED THE…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Budgets, Educational Methods
Dakin, William Robert – 1967
From the analysis of the literature and the opinions of a jury of experts in adult education, 14 basic steps for implementing a program of noncredit, informal, continuing adult educational services were derived. A local governing board, appointed as sponsoring agency, appoints a Director of Adult Education to administer the program, and a lay…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Facilities
African Adult Education Association, Lusaka (Zambia). – 1975
The Kikuyu seminar, third in a series of international meeting on the use of comparative studies as a tool of adult education, focused on the application of the comparative approach to developing countries, particularly Africa. Essential components of the structure of adult education were divided into main sectors, which are individually discussed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Comparative Education, Developing Nations
Borden, Karl – 1974
The purpose of the handbook is to simplify the routine business of beginning and/or operating an Adult Basic Education (ABE) Program. It describes in some detail the planning of an ABE program and deals with: the demographic survey of the population; the creation of an advisory board; the determination of the educational needs of the community;…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Guides, Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs
Atkinson, Thomas Grant – 1968
The purpose of this study was to investigate, develop, and explicate a procedure, theoretical in nature, which adult educators can use for comprehending, analyzing and planning single-event persuasive programs for adults. The study conceptualized persuasion as a behavioral phenomenon consisting of verifiable human action which constitutes, or is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Attitude Change, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Engineers' Council for Professional Development, New York, NY. – 1967
Rapid technological change has created a great need for continuing education programs for those engineers not participating in advanced degree programs. The Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD) believes an additional system is needed to enable the engineer, employer, and educator to measure and maintain continuing education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Certification, Continuing Education Units
National Univ. Extension Association, Washington, DC. – 1970
In 1968, a national planning conference, under the joint sponsorship of 34 organizations responsing to continuing education needs, created the National Task Force to determine the feasibility of a uniform unit of measurement and develop a proposal for field testing the concept. Stressing that continuing education units should supplement, not…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs
Grogan, Paul J. – 1968
The thesis of this presentation is that continuing education has come of age. A broad national approach is being developed to bring to maturity the disorganized elements of continuing education programs. The engineering profession, in coping with the problems of rapid technological change, has made efforts to establish updating programs. To…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Certification, Conference Reports
