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Schreiber, Morris – Today's Education, 1977
Through continuing education classes in creative writing many adults are discovering and developing new skills and perceptions of the world around them. (JD)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Continuing Education Centers, Creative Writing
Peer reviewedToole, Kate – Art Education, 1977
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Art Education, Creative Teaching
Peer reviewedLee, Norman; And Others – Economics, 1988
Reviews various proposals of the Economics Association (Great Britain) which address the need for improved economic understanding among adults. Discusses adult motivations, barriers to learning, learning methods, and sources of economic understanding. Recommends further research, pilot projects, and other means of promoting adult economic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adults
Peer reviewedWatson, Gladys – Canadian Library Journal, 1985
Various projects implemented to combat illiteracy in the Third World are explored. Highlights include women's ability to exercise right to learn, adult illiteracy rates, World Literacy of Canada (WLC), the Nicaraguan literacy crusade, and a WLC development education program that encouraged Canadians to prepare materials in "plain…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedFordham, Paul – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1983
In this paper the author refers to the practice of educating adults as it has developed in the English universities (extramural studies, professional post-experience courses, and continuing education, and also to the much more recent growth of adult education as a field of study. (SSH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Extension Education, Higher Education
Carlson, Robert A. – Adult Education, 1976
This report, based on a 6-month field study, discusses developments now under way in West Germany's Adult Education Centers. The article employs a comparative approach that takes account of trends in Europe and North America, putting these developments into a philosophical framework. (Editor/WL)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Comparative Education, Educational Development
Apsler, Alfred – Community College Frontiers, 1976
Describes the Focus on Mature Learning program offered to senior citizens by Clark College (Washington). This series of mini-courses on topics ranging from the politics of aging to the geography of the Northwest involves no grades, no tests, and no term papers. Reactions from students and teachers alike have been overwhelmingly positive. (DC)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Colleges, Minicourses
Download full textLindenskov, Lena; Hansen, Eigil Peter – 2000
This study explores how adults' perspectives, intentions, blockages, resistance, and fascinations are reconstructed during a mathematics course in adult basic education. These aspects are discussed as important building blocks for developing theory in adult educational research. Adult mathematics education was compared in different institutional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes
Caldwell, John T. – Adult Leadership, 1974
An address by the Chancellor of North Carolina State University to the National Adult Education Conference, Dallas, Oct. 30, 1973, emphasizes the two purposes of adult education: to enlarge human capability in society at large and to enhance individual fulfillment. (MS)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Career Choice
Peer reviewedHiatt, Mary P. – College Composition and Communication, 1973
Describes a workshop at Baruch College for 125 paraprofessionals enrolled in a composition course at the college freshman level. (RB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Higher Education, Minority Groups
Wilson, Philip K. – Journal of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 1974
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Cardiovascular System, Emergency Programs, Exercise (Physiology)
Dickinson, Gary; Rubidge, Nicholas A. – Adult Education, 1973
Author seeks to establish a valid instrument for testing the knowledge about adult education that will aid adult educators. (GB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Peer reviewedCriscuolo, Nicholas P. – Reading Teacher, 1973
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Elementary Education, Parent Participation
Pekkanen, Paavo – Adult Education in Finland, 1973
The Finnish Municipal Association offers planning, consulting, and training services to the municipalities to assist them in the management and development of their administration and economy. (Author/GB)
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Administrative Organization, Adult Programs, City Government
Newlin, Joseph – Adult Leadership, 1973
Describes a project to encourage communication between adult education programmers and an example of its utilization in one community. (SP)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation, Communication (Thought Transfer)
