A description is given of the "Take Care of Yourself" program which is an interdiscplinary program designed to provide health education and dance/exercise for older adults as well as gerontology field experience for medical and dance/exercise science students. The program offers older adults an opportunity to maintain and regain an active, more…

Literacy should be viewed as a continuum of undereducation, stretching from those who cannot read and write at all at the low end to those who have less than a high school education at the high end. People at different points have different needs, which may differ greatly from those current literacy programs try to meet. The track record of…

This booklet is designed to sensitize volunteer literacy tutors to the special needs and interests of illiterate older learners. It also gives useful tips for creating successful and self-rewarding learning experiences. The first section on the world of older adults with literacy problems describes some of the characteristics of this group. In the…

The Elderscholar program was initiated in Marietta, Ohio, in the spring of 1988 as a special noncredit program for learners over the age of 55. Ten courses (two at each of five time slots) were offered for 50-minute periods on six consecutive Fridays. Courses were offered in creative writing, religions of the world, modern literature,…

This issue contains those materials from a seminar on "Campaigning for Literacy" held at Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, on January 4-11, 1982, that concentrate on Asian experience. The "Udaipur Literacy Declaration," presented first, is followed by extracts from the opening addresses and a review of the report, "Campaigning…

Literacy and illiteracy are cultural; the need to read, to write, and to compute comes from values placed on these functions by the cultural or social group in which one lives. They are also intergenerational. This intergenerational factor should be turned around so that parents transmit literacy to children. Illiteracy is also costly to society…

More and more organizations are helping their employees take advantage of new college and university programs that mix a lot of independent study at home with minimal on-campus work. A variety of independent study degree programs and typical students participating in these continuing education programs are described. (MW)

The communications system at the residential New England Center for Continuing Education is described. Using the Center as an example, ways are explored in which educational technology can be supportive of adult conference activities which focus on concerns to campus and community. (AG)

The survey was sent to senior administrators of continuing and extension education in 100 colleges and universities, and was designed to elicit comparative data, trends and developments for the period 1964-74. The responses are presented in summary form which follows the survey instrument format. (SA)

This lecture explains the history, purpose, and future of the Danish folk high school, considered a small but vital part of that country's adult education system. As an introduction, the term, folk high school, is defined to mean a school for young adults, usually nineteen or twenty years old, which deals with the individual's role in life and…

The Center for Vocational Education at Ohio State is conducting a survey to locate career development services for adults, and the article gives several examples from the 100 programs already identified. (Author)

A recent feasibility study showed broad interest in accreditation among a number of organizations which provide continuing education for adults. The Continuing Education Council, devoted to the improvement of continuing education through accreditation, has been established. (MW)