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Luke, Robert A. – 1992
As this historical review shows, the National Education Association (NEA) was one of the principal contributors to the development of adult education in the United States. The report describes NEA's direct involvement through the lifespan of the NEA Department of Immigrant Education (1921-1924); the NEA Department of Adult Education (1924-1951);…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Download full textAuret, Diana – 2000
This book documents the history, successes, and failures of Save the Children's farmworker program in Zimbabwe, 1981-98. The report explores workers' past and present living and working conditions on commercial farms and describes how the program promoted a progression from workers with a migrant mentality to the building of functional…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Health Care, Adult Basic Education, Agricultural Laborers
Edelson, Paul J. – 1991
The Saturation Project was an innovative 3-year grant program that was planned by the National Association for Public School Adult Educators (NAPSAE) but never actually implemented. The grant was intended to be given to the McAlester, Oklahoma, school district in 1961 in order to demonstrate the contribution of adult education to the overall…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Educational Administration, Organizational Development
Vickerman, Kathrine D. – 1996
This document describes and presents the materials gathered during a project to collect, preserve, and document the history of the Mountain Plains Adult Education Association (MPAEA). First, the procedures used to develop the MPAEA archives are traced. Presented next is an overview of the mission, development, and major activities of the MPAEA,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Archives
Morgan, Charlotte T. – 1981
Various agencies contributed to the education of black adults in Manhattan (New York City) during the period 1880-1930. Most of these programs were centered in Harlem as that area became home to vastly increasing numbers of black people. Organizations which contributed to adult education included the churches with their "lyceums," which…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults
Brice, Edward Warner – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Migration has been an essential part of American life and a contributing factor to the urbanization of its cities. The pages of history are filled with the record of the movement of people away from a lesser toward a greater opportunity and the search for security and happiness in some more favorable environment. There are two large groups of…
Descriptors: Migrant Education, Migration, Immigrants, Adult Education
Elfert, Maren, Ed. – 2002
An historical account of the creation and development of the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) is presented. Written in honor of the 50th anniversary of UIE, this institutional history begins with a series of seven prefaces and memoir essays about the organization written by UIE administrators, board members and researchers. Two chapters detail…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning
