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Duffy, Roslyn – Child Care Information Exchange, 2002
Advocates experiential education in parental education classes. Explores the definition of experiential learning, why it succeeds, and how to incorporate it. Specifically addresses: (1) the learning part; (2) sensory input; (3) interpretation and organization; (4) metaphors; (5) motion; (6) types of activities; and (7) long-term implementation.…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies
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Direct linkCowperthwaite, Gordon – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1980
Suggests alternatives to traditional methods of "dispensing" higher education to lifelong learners, focusing on changing teacher responsibilities, older college students, crediting experiential learning, extending services to private and public agencies, and learning contracts. Cites two examples of using contract learning. (JM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Community Colleges
Heermann, Barry – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1980
Discusses strategies for transforming community colleges to meet the highly individualized, experiential, community-based learning needs of adult students. Underscores the importance of making lifelong learning part of the institutional mission, administrative commitment, redefining faculty roles and financial underpinnings, an appropriate…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Programs, Change Strategies
Download full textHall, Shirley L. – 1996
The Workforce Education and Development Off-Campus Degree Program of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale allows military and civilian students to complete bachelor of science degrees in education with a major in work force education and development at 1 civilian site and 16 military bases throughout the United States. Approximately 1,000…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Community Colleges, Educational Practices, Experiential Learning
Nossen, Robert J., Ed. – PAACE-SETTER, 1984
The bulk of this issue consists of five articles providing insight into various phases of adult continuing education. "The Meliorist Position as a Philosophic Base for Adult Education" (Gordon Clay Godbey) examines these questions about meliorism: should we accept as natural improvement of the human condition, the constant wars, the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Brown, Larry – 2001
Youth development lies at the heart of the Workforce Investment Act and the Youth Opportunity Movement. Like employment training programs for adults, employment training programs for youth should focus on acquisition of skills, gainful employment, and productive citizenship. Beyond these three characteristics, it is essential that programs for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Programs, Community Programs
