The author recommends variety in content, method, and scheduling for adult liberal arts programs; suggests a curriculum organized around the nature of man, human society, and the physical realm; and offers ideas for program operation. (LY)

Adult education by means of communication satellites is stressed as a key to reciprocal interdependence. The author states that technological advances such as communications satellites can be used effectively to diffuse knowledge and offer options for choice in evolving societies. (RR)

Educating adults in the labor market to help meet changes in their present positions or to prepare them for new ones is an important phase of a total marketing and distributive education program at both the secondary and postsecondary levels. (Managing Editor, 323 Wirtz, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115) (JOW)

Elements of the ideal match between adult learning and the computer are discussed: (1) autonomy, (2) utility, (3) integration, and (4) security. (CT)

Argues that welfare reform policies colonize poor mothers. Using ethnographic data of a welfare-to-work educational program, analyzes how colonizing public and governmental discourses about welfare mothers infiltrate the program's educational policy and everyday practices. Asserts that welfare-to-work neither fully colonizes nor fully educates,…

This supplement/newsletter contains booktalks, news, and other information of interest to librarians and adult readers. This issue includes reviews of fiction and nonfiction books for adults; an article, "How I Turned into a Booktalker--Overnight!" by Kaite Mediatore; and a new feature, "Talking with the Talkers," which focuses…

The research reported in this paper attempted to identify predictors of senior center participation and to ascertain why there has been a decline in the number of individuals participating at senior centers in recent years. The research reports the results of a survey conducted among senior center participants in an 11-county area in the Nortex…

The Adult Education Program Study (AEPS) was conducted to provide comprehensive information about federally funded adult education programs and the skills of participants enrolled in those programs. The study had two primary goals. The first was to gather and disseminate information about the programs that constitute the adult education system in…

This qualitative research was designed to understand how the social integration process in the workplace unfolds with adults who have intellectual disabilities. Participant observation and interviews permitted an in-depth examination of 10 integration situations within a company, with regard for the actions and perceptions of the stakeholders.…

This report contains two main sections and three appendixes (reports of the working groups and summaries of workshop reports in Zaire and in Sierra Leone). Section one reviews the rationale, design, and intended use of the training monograph series, "Literacy in Development," which focuses on the needs of the middle-level literacy workers and…

The Action Coalition to Create Opportunities for Retirement with Dignity (ACCORD) suggests an approach through which adult educators might make a significant contribution toward senior citizens' own education and toward community education by helping individuals to understand and act on their own life situations and a community's social concern.…

Describes the adult education program of the Department of Education of New South Wales, Australia. Evening college offerings include academic courses, liberal courses (arts, crafts, hobbies, cultural activities), special courses for disadvantaged people, and literacy courses. (Author/DN)