Challenges adult educators to provide the educational experiences and resources necessary for adults to handle life tasks. Introduces the "teachable moment", as part of a lifelong curriculum, which relates the tasks associated with each developmental life stage to appropriate adult education program responses and possible outcomes. (TP)

Following a brief section on definitions of politics, political systems, and educational policy, the article reviews major systems for thinking specifically about adult learning: continuing, recurrent and nonformal education, and lifelong learning as related but distinct concepts, and the question of central control by national government.…

Described a program of educational training, aimed at increasing the job skills and professionalism of all county jail and city lockup correctional personnel in the state of Michigan. (Author/RK)

A survey, consisting of demographic, leisure, and personal data, was conducted on middle-aged-adults in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Questions were designed to elicit information concerning the subjects' expectations of increased or decreased leisure activity during the years preceding retirement. Results show that activity patterns for…

An overview is provided of continuing education programs for mid-life change, with an emphasis on the offerings of community colleges and employers; on career, family life, and women's education; and on counseling. (SK)

Describes a program at Delta College (Michigan) which attempts to remove financial, geographical, psychological, and social barriers to existing services to integrate older adults into the service population, and which offers specialized services focusing on gerontological service, training, and development to meet the individual and group needs…

Sets the case for the contribution of educational broadcasting in the context of access to recurrent education. Shows how local radio can and does attract to serious study many who do not normally participate in adult education classes. (Author/CSS)

Discusses the development, replication, and outcomes of a community college-based program to train and place older adults in child care jobs. Describes the collaboration between community colleges and Generations Together, an intergenerational program at the University of Pittsburgh. Identifies conditions favoring program expansion and success.…

A two-part guide to retirement programming is presented. The first part provides a rationale for retirement programs and is intended to stimulate leaders in business, labor, governmental, educational, religious, and social service organizations to offer retirement programs or refine those which they already offer. The second part describes what a…

Aging education needs to begin early, preferably in preschool and kindergarten, and continue throughout the school years. A description is given of the components of an effective elementary school mini-course on aging. (JD)

A chronology of the development of educational television in Toronto, Canada. (LS)

Proposes to initiate dialog on ethical issues inherent in the field of adult education and to stimulate individual and collective ethical exploration by adult educators. (JOW)

Analysis of the verbal interaction (especially turn taking) among three program planners showed how learning objectives, adult education principles, and ethical imperatives are shaped through planners' talk. Program construction appeared to be contingent upon negotiation of power and interests through the use of language. (SK)

Discussions with 35 older adults resulted in the following findings: (1) an historical perspective on volunteering; (2) identification of issues affecting seniors as volunteers; (3) creation of solution scenarios related to the issues; (4) establishment of conditions that would increase senior volunteerism; and (5) determination of the types of…

Basic guidelines for initiating and/or advancing a senior games program are described. Included are resources for further information and assistance. (IAH)