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Karnes, Sandra Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This ethnographic case study investigated second year college students who participated in the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program at a technical college in northeastern Pennsylvania. In order to understand how learners stayed motivated in a college setting, I selected participants who were in their second year of the TAA program. A total of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Technical Education, Postsecondary Education, Semi Structured Interviews
Romero, Carol J.; And Others – 1991
Re-employment experiences were analyzed for dislocated workers who used the services of the Employment Service (ES) during the 1980s under the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act (EDWAA). Data came from administrative records in three states--Pennsylvania, California, and Missouri--noteworthy for differences in their…
Descriptors: Adults, Compliance (Legal), Dislocated Workers, Eligibility
Nossen, Robert J., Ed. – PAACE-SETTER, 1984
The bulk of this issue consists of five articles providing insight into various phases of adult continuing education. "The Meliorist Position as a Philosophic Base for Adult Education" (Gordon Clay Godbey) examines these questions about meliorism: should we accept as natural improvement of the human condition, the constant wars, the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy