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Knox, Alan B. – Cogito - Knowledge and Action in Adult Education, 1971
Purpose of this essay is to propose a better method for interrelating knowledge and action so that education is more relevant. The approach is called an Action Seminar. The success of any method will be greater if learners and mentors engage in activities that they consider appropriate and important. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Experimental Curriculum
Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). – 1968
This publication includes discussion of the use of "combined teaching systems" (and most specifically television) in various European adult education programs. Brief reports are included on several programs (general and technical education, and arts and letters courses, in France; literacy in Italy; and various televised courses in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Correspondence Study, Educational Technology
Lovett, Tom – 1970
This report deals with the philosophy behind the Liverpool Educational Priority Area Project, a program of adult education for working class persons, and describes two of the programs in detail. Education in an EPA needs to be relevant, grounded in real problems and situations, and the emphasis should be on involvement and discovery. The first…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Blue Collar Occupations
Education Center for Chinese, San Francisco, CA. – 1972
The Asian Newcomer Parent Program (ANPP), an experimental project initiated by the Education Center for Chinese (ECC) in 1971, was intended to provide newly immigrated parents some of the same opportunities as their children to learn English, to understand American mores and lifestyles, and to transcend some of the cultural and communication…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Annual Reports, Asian Americans, Audiolingual Methods