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Download full textMichigan State Council on Vocational Education, Lansing. – 1995
The Michigan Council on Vocational Education conducted a comprehensive review of all secondary-level vocational education (VE) programs for adult criminal offenders. The review focused on the programs that were delivered through the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) in fiscal years 1994 and 1995. Data were collected from the following:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling
McIntyre, John; Brown, Tony; Ferrier, Fran – 1996
The financial operations of providers of adult and community education (ACE) in New South Wales, Australia, were examined in a conceptual and empirical study. Enrollment data were analyzed and case studies of three community colleges and two community adult education centers in metropolitan, coastal, and rural communities were conducted. Four…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Case Studies
Haggis, Sheila M. – 1991
This nine-chapter monograph deals with the purpose and context of basic education, starting with the basic learning needs that education must meet. Chapter 1 focuses on the rationale for education for all. Chapter 2 explores the interplay between the educational process and culture, including the complex issues associated with language. Chapter 3…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Cultural Context
Bordia, A. – 1981
Section 1 of this study reviews the insufficiency of literacy and basic education programs for adults offered by the colonial Ministry of Education in Zimbabwe prior to independence (1980). While section 2 emphasizes the significance of adult education for the new nation's development, including its implications for manpower training and the…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Adult Education, Adult Programs, African Culture
Czisny, Ken, Ed. – 1982
These proceedings contain 19 papers and 3 symposia from a research conference on adult and continuing education. Topics of the presentations are staff development needs of Indiana adult basic and secondary instructional staff, the advocate counseling model as a teaching tool for self-advocacy, needs assessment of three age groups of adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Washington-Warren-Hamilton-Essex Counties Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Hudson Falls, NY. Southern Adirondack Educational Center. – 1984
This program guide consists of guidelines, forms, and curriculum materials for use in implementing the Giving Rural Adults a Study Program (GRASP). A regional program covering four rural counties in New York State, GRASP is designed to deliver packaged, individualized adult basic education (ABE) and high school equivalency (GED) programming to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs
Hall, Budd L. – 1975
Emphasis placed on adult education in Tanzania stems directly from the decision to bring about development through an egalitarian rural transformation. The political decision to stress socialist development with priority to those living in rural areas preceded the creation of the adult education network and shaped its structures and organization.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agency Role
STUART, ALLAN – 1966
A SURVEY WAS MADE OF PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS EDUCATION COURSES FOR ADULTS, PROVIDED BY 14 UNIVERSITIES IN NEW YORK CITY. YEARLY ENROLLMENTS VARIED FROM 350 TO 9,000. TEACHING METHODS VARIED ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS OF THE INSTITUTION, AND CLASSES WERE MOSTLY HELD AT NIGHT IN SCHOOL CLASSROOMS. MORE MEN THAN WOMEN PARTICIPATED, THE AGES RANGED FROM 17…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs
Charters, Alexander N., Comp. – 1980
This is the fifth of eight volumes consisting of series of publications of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA), such as Notes and Essays, Research Reports, Occasional Papers, and Conference Reports. These materials provide both theory and practice in the area of non-credit adult liberal education offered by colleges…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Case Studies
Illinois Univ., Urbana. Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education. – 1979
As a result of a project to prepare standards for agricultural occupations programs in Illinois community colleges, this guide was developed to assist local community college instructors, administrators, and other local persons in the evaluation of local agricultural occupations programs. The first section of the guide explains (how standards…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering
Levine, Herbert A. – 1977
This report is a digest of a larger work, "Developments in Paid Leave of Absence," a report including case studies and analysis of the collective experience of nine European countries and the United States with paid educational leave. Section I defines paid educational leave as "leave given to an employee for educational purposes…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Comparative Education, Educational Opportunities
National Univ. Extension Association, Washington, DC. – 1977
This document is a compilation of manuscripts describing seven programs which received the 1976 American College Testing Program and the National University Extension Association Innovative Awards in Continuing Education for making innovative contributions to the improvement of continuing education. Entry manuscripts for each of the following…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Bilingual Education, Career Counseling
Guilfoy, Vivian M.; Grothe, Mardell S. – 1976
This second volume of a three-volume final report presents research and evaluation findings of a 3-year project to design, develop, and implement a comprehensive delivery system to meet the career-related information, guidance, and referral needs of home-based adults, those 16 and older neither working nor attending school on a full-time basis.…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adults, Career Choice, Career Counseling
Mellard, Daryl; Johnson, Richard – 2002
The Road to Success (RtS) program was designed to introduce hard-to-employ adults with learning disabilities and other cognitive barriers to ways of learning that are will enable them to learn the skills and knowledge they will need as employees and in their everyday lives. Originally developed to serve welfare recipients in Kansas, RtS was…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes
Macrae, Helen; Agostinelli, Jacinta – 2002
The experiences, attitudes, and needs of three literacy learners and one paid literacy teacher in Melbourne, Australia, were examined. The analysis was framed by the following principles: (1) literacy is a feminist issue; (2) adult literacy education is best defined as broad, general education that is grounded in language and fosters depth and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
