Article outlines the background, resources, and application of an adult literacy pilot project in India. (GB)

Article deals with the question of making adult education relevant in a vocational sense without slighting any of the basic skills. (GB)

Article is a study on the return of adults to illiteracy after dropping out of adult education programs. It seeks to determine the causes and extent of this problem. (GB)

Author cites bibliographies of materials available for adult education programs and discusses criteria for materials selection. (GB)

Article gives a documented history and analysis of adult basic education in the United States, complete with statistical tables on the educationally disadvantaged population and eligibles and enrollments in federally supported adult education programs. (GB)

Describes the first Unesco Experimental Literacy Program. (SP)

Discusses problems that make the development of education in the developing countries very difficult, if not impossible.'' (Author)

Article describes the progress in adult education in India using the aid of puppetry. (MM)

Four part article: (1) a description of the program, (2) Grace Goodell's analysis of adult learning characteristics with emphasis on economic motivation, (3) a reply by J.D.N. Versluys emphasizing importance of teacher training, (4) a final comment by Goodell. (SP)

A radical re-structuring of traditional schooling requires research into effective means of offering the whole population of developing nations access to the educational system: the role of mass media, means and limits of functional education, institutionalization of lifelong education. (JB)

Adult education has drawn relatively small amounts of money and skill away from the Latin American government's obsessive concern with primary schooling. But its share of educational resources is increasing rapidly, particularly in literacy and agricultural extension. (SSH)

Notes that the job market for those who can teach reading to older adolescents and adults in nonschool settings is changing and possibly expanding, while the demand for teachers who can teach only in traditional school settings is declining. Discusses the pros and cons of this situation. (FL)

In-depth unstructured interviews and participant observation of 43 adults showed that illiterates create reciprocal networks to which they contribute a range of skills. Illiterate adults demonstrate varying abilities to decode the social world and take action; that is, illiteracy does not imply dependence. (SK)

Considers the following areas of legislation: (1) the Portuguese educational system, (2) administrative structures, (3) adult basic education, (4) popular libraries, (5) associations of popular education, and (6) the National Plan for Literacy and Basic Education for Adults. (Author/SK)

Describes several approaches used in trying to teach an adult to learn to read over a period of several years, including the approach that was successful (language experience) because the student was highly motivated to write. (JM)