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Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. Div. of Program Development. – 1979
This handbook provides incentives for individuals to improve the quality of life in Kentucky communities by becoming involved in community education. An effective community education program provides educational, recreational, social, and cultural services which work toward improving community life. The school often plays a key role in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Ancillary School Services, Community Education, Community Services
Download full textGhory, Ward J.; Sinclair, Robert L. – 1979
A rationale and methodology for the use of student perceptions in educational decision making, and specifically in the area of curriculum, are presented. Four sections of the paper present ways in which student perceptions may be used: to describe and compare school environments, to compare perceptions of student subgroups within the same…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Problems, Decision Making
PASSOW, A. HARRY – 1967
EXTENSIVELY REPORTED ARE THE FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF A COMPREHENSIVE 15-MONTH STUDY OF THE WASHINGTON, D.C., PUBLIC SCHOOLS. SUCH A SURVEY, IT IS FELT, WILL HELP TO CREATE A MODEL URBAN SCHOOL SYSTEM WHICH WILL OFFER PUPILS QUALITY EDUCATION DIFFERENTIATED TO MEET THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS. THIRTY-THREE SPECIALIZED TASK FORCES COLLECTED DATA…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Ancillary School Services, Boards of Education, Community Schools
National TAFE Clearinghouse, Adelaide (Australia). – 1980
This abstract journal contains abstracts of 191 documents on technical education secondary and postsecondary levels which are available through the Australian Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Clearinghouse system. The abstracts contained in this journal are from the following broad categories: traditional discipline curriculum subjects;…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Education, Adult Education, Clearinghouses
Altbach, Philip G. – 1979
Consisting of an essay and a bibliography, this book provides a discussion of the origins and development of comparative higher education as a field of study, an interpretation of the key issues in higher education as they affect different countries, and a select list of significant contributions to the literature on the subject. The essay begins…
Descriptors: Activism, Articulation (Education), Bibliographies, Books
New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, Wellington. – 1978
New Zealand is committed to reducing unemployment by providing its youth with more skills and appropriate job opportunities. In line with this policy are recommendations to introduce vocational elements into general education and increase secondary level work experience programs in keeping with the detailed legal, labor, and safety guidelines…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Agency Role, Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship
Knickerbocker, Addie H. – 1977
General objectives of a research study were (1) to gather information from superintendents in the public school systems concerning their opinions regarding the image and purpose of vocational home economics programs in Louisiana; (2) to obtain statistics on the number of vacancies for vocational home economics teachers occurring in the 1976-77…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Administration, Educational Planning, High Schools
Bramble, William J.; Mertens, Donna M. – 1976
An assessment was conducted to determine the needs of people in Appalachia for continuing education, adult education, in-service education, and undergraduate and graduate education for college credit. Needs have been categorized in five areas: education, medicine and health, business and industry, human resources and services, and government. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Education, Communications Satellites, Conference Reports
Jernudd, Bjorn H.; Garrison, Gary L. – 1975
This is a collection of eight essays dealing with various aspects of language treatment in Egypt. The first essay attempts a tentative typology characterizing the role of the Arabic language as a unifying or divisive force within and among the countries in which it is spoken as a native language. This essay also makes some initial reflections on…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bibliographies, Dialect Studies, Diglossia
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania. – 1974
A selection of papers on Asian population trends and educational development is presented in four parts. Part I defines the major components of Asian population growth as the rapid decline in mortality after 1945, relative increases in the population of less developed regions, accelerated fertility potential, and unequal distribution of wealth.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Area Studies, Asian Studies, Case Studies
Online Submission, 2006
The "EFA (Education For All) Global Monitoring Report 2006" estimates that about 100 million children of primary school age, 55 percent of them girls, are not enrolled in primary school. UNESCO Bangkok, the Consortium for Street Children and Childhope Asia initiated the "Promotion of Improved Learning Opportunities for Street…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Modules, Case Studies, Homeless People
Nashashibi, Pauline; Watters, Kate – 2003
This document is a guide for managers and curriculum leaders of adult and community learning (ACE) programs in the United Kingdom who need to take a strategic approach to their program's curriculum and build internal organization and partnerships. The introduction discusses the aims and components of the overlapping strands of ACE provision (broad…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Irish National Association of Adult Education, Dublin. – 2002
In January 2002, Ireland's minister of state announced the establishment of the National Adult Learning Council to take effect in March 2002. One of the council's priorities will be to establish local adult learning boards (LALBs) to oversee development and delivery of adult education. An Irish government white paper recommended that LALBs'…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Advisory Committees
2001
Studies and reports examining the problems associated with adult literacy and efforts to address those problems were reviewed to identify lessons for adult literacy programs in Canada and elsewhere. Low literacy levels were linked to above-average rates of personal and/or learning difficulties, low self-esteem, associated social problems, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Grubb, W. Norton – 2002
Individuals in liberal societies have to construct their own conceptions of who they are and what career(s) they should prepare for as opposed to being told by families, schools, or communities. The trends toward providing more and more career information is a valuable component of an overall policy to prepare individuals to make decisions for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Choice, Career Guidance, Constructivism (Learning)
