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Download full textSuchman, J. Richard; DiSario, Martha R.
An instructional system is presented for building the competencies of adult basic education students in making consumer decisions, and offers a guide to teachers who wish to design their own decision-making problems for students. The first four chapters provide a brief introduction, discuss the rational consumer decision-making process and the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Consumer Education, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
Doraiswami, S. – 1974
Traditional adult education has been literacy-oriented, but the curriculum content and methodology has been inadequate in maintaining motivation and interest. An important effort to eradicate these problems has been the Farmer's Functional Literacy Program in India. This major project relates adult education and training in modern agricultural…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education
Scane, Joyce; And Others – 1991
Process writing methods, which are well established in Canadian elementary and secondary schools, are introduced in this book for use with adult English as a Second Language (ESL) and adult basic education (ABE) classes. The book is the result of two research projects that investigated the feasibility of using a process approach to teaching…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Indiana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Indianapolis. Div. of Adult and Community Education. – 1978
This curriculum guide is aimed at Adult Basic Education (ABE) directors, teachers, paraprofessionals, and volunteers who are working in the local programs. Developed around adult performance level (APL) objectives, it provides teaching/learning activities and resources for helping adult learners develop basic skills and knowledge necessary to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Communication Skills, Community Resources
Amstutz, Donna D. – 1978
This manual suggests solutions to frequent questions of adult basic education (ABE) and General Educational Development (GED) teachers. The sourcebook is organized into six major sections. The first section, General Questions, includes a potpourri of questions. The other five categories are Reading, English, Mathematics, Social Studies/Science,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Daily Living Skills
Davidson, Edmonia W. – 1975
The handbook is comprised of materials related to the implementation of Operation COPE, a Washington, D.C., demonstration Adult Basic Education (ABE) project for low-income young mothers who are heads of households, developed by the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). The project featured a curriculum which integrated coping skills with Adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Daily Living Skills, Demonstration Programs, Heads of Households
