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Direct linkReder, Stephen, Ed.; Bynner, John, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Understanding the origins of poor literacy and numeracy skills in adulthood and how to improve them is of major importance when society places a high premium on proficiency in these basic skills. This edited collection brings together the results of recent longitudinal studies that greatly extend our knowledge of what works in raising skill…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Educational Development, Academic Persistence, Numeracy
Download full textKhan, Maria Lourdes Almazan, Ed.; Castillo, Raquel De Guzman, Ed.; Lovegrove, Bernard, Ed.; Raya, Rene, Ed.; Tanvir, Mohammad Muntasim, Ed.; Claridad, Claudine D., Ed. – Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education, 2011
In 2000 in Dakar, 164 countries reaffirmed the vision of the World Declaration on Education for All (Jomtien, 1990), that all children, young people and adults have the human right to benefit from an education that will meet their basic learning needs in the best and fullest sense of the term, an education that includes learning to know, to do, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, International Education, Lifelong Learning
Morgan, W. John, Ed.; Wu, Bin, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade--China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years. China is exceptional among lower income countries in using tertiary education as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Access to Education
Soljan, Niksa Nikola, Ed. – 1983
These seven papers offer an insight into the different aspects of recurrent education in Yugoslavia. "Recurrent Education and Educational Changes" considers these three processes: the "de-etatization," the democratization, and the de-schooling of education. "The Unity of Education and Work and Recurrent Education"…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Jones, Huw, Ed.; Mace, Jackie, Ed. – 2000
The four papers in this collection are intended to stimulate debate in the adult education sector and to set the agenda for further development work. "Learning Outcomes: Towards a Synthesis of Progress" (Peter Lavender) provides a summary of recent efforts to identify, record, and value learning that does not lead to qualifications.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Achievement Rating, Adult Education
Brightman, Samuel C. – 1994
Among the articles by Sam Brightman collected in this volume from the newsletter, "Adult & Continuing Education Today (ACET)" are the following: "Grown-Ups Ought to Know Better"; "Adult Education: The Only Sure Factor Is Growth"; "Adult Education Important in This Election Year"; "Will Nursery School External Degree Programs Come Next?";…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Continuing Education, Educational Change
Forster, William, Ed. – 1998
The 11 chapters in this book are intended to raise awareness of the wealth of expertise the prison education sector has to offer other adult educators. "Policy Development and Cultural Issues in Australian Prison Education" (Bob Semmens) details the current situation, with a major focus on recent developments in Victoria. "Policy, Praxis, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Curriculum
Friedenthal-Haase, Martha, Ed. – 1998
This volume contains 36 biographies: "I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson and Radical Adult Education (AE) in Sierra Leone in the Years 1938/1939" (Turay); "Frank C. Laubach as the Father of the Adult Literacy Movement in India" (Ghosh); "A Historical Study on the Theory and Practice of Social and AE in Korea" (Lee); "Integrative Adult Educators" (Yaron);…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Biographies, Educational Change
Ciccone, Janet Kiplinger, Ed.; Friedenberg, Joan E., Ed. – 1988
This publication is a review and synthesis of the last five years of the literature related to special populations designated in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. The document contains six chapters. "Black American Participation in Vocational Education" (Ernest Fields) traces the historical evolution of education for jobs as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Blacks, Correctional Education
Bradshaw, David C. A., Ed. – 1995
This book contains 13 chapters on issues related to the connections between learning and the economy. "Introduction" (David Bradshaw) provides an overview of the connection between work and learning. "Learning Does Pay" (Christopher Ball) explores this assertion about the value of human development. "Education and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Economics, Education Work Relationship
Garrison, D. Randy, Ed. – 1994
This book focuses on understanding the epistemological foundation of adult education, the research process, policy issues, and directions for the future. "An Epistemological Overview of the Field" (Garrison) provides an overview of adult education research: the historical development, issues, the scope of the knowledge base, and approaches to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Development, Educational Policy
Kirmayer, Paul, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This volume contains 13 articles that reflect the development of adult education in Israel during recent years. The material relates to the principal areas with which the Division of Adult Education deals: formal and nonformal education for adults, language and cultural absorption of new immigrants, and training of facilitators for parental…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Education, Counselor Training, Educational Development
PDF pending restorationDevelopment Communication Report, 1979
The first article in this report emphasizes the importance of user participation at the planning, decision-making, and production levels of small-scale instructional development in developing nations. Four subsequent articles also centered around user participation in Third World instructional development discuss folk theater as effective 2-way…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Childrens Games, Communication (Thought Transfer), Developing Nations
Friedenthal-Haase, Martha, Ed. – 1998
This volume includes the following papers: "Foreword: The Standing International Conference on the History of Adult Education (AE)" (Franz Poeggeler); "Editor's Introduction: Perspectives on the Sixth International Conference on the History of AE" (Martha Friedenthal-Haase); two special addresses by Joerg Prinzhausen and Ursula…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Biographies, Developed Nations
Mayo, Marjorie, Ed.; Thompson, Jane, Ed. – 1995
This collection of 21 essays reviews the context of developments in adult education in the last 15 years. "Adult Education for Change in the Nineties and Beyond" (Marjorie Mayo) is a critical review of the context for these changes and of the theoretical debates that attempt to analyze and explain them. "Challenging the Postmodern…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Community Education, Critical Thinking
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