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Integrating Development Education into Adult Education Using Active Citizenship as a Focus
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Bailey, Natasha – AONTAS The National Adult Learning Organisation, 2009
This research was commissioned by AONTAS-the National Adult Learning Organisation, in partnership with Irish Aid, the Irish Government's programme of assistance to developing countries. To date, a strategic focus on the integration of development education into adult learning has been missing at both State level and across the development…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Adult Learning, Community Education, Foreign Countries
Chicano Studies Programs in Higher Education: Scenarios for Further Research.
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Rivera, Jose; Burrola, Luis Ramon – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 1984
Reports opinions of representatives of 12 university Chicano Studies programs. Finds that major program issues are curriculum redesign, perception of programs as lacking legitimacy, financial problems, need to upgrade academic quality, and potential expansion into research. Outlines five scenarios for the future of Chicano Studies. Contains…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Programs, Delphi Technique, Educational Research
An Introductory Educational Research Course: A Survey of Graduate Students Who Have Found it Helpful on the Job.
Todd, Robert F.; Reece, Carol C. – 1988
A study conducted in 1987 focused on the extent to which a graduate introductory educational research course was helpful to the students who had taken it. Responses from 340 former students indicated that they had been able to utilize in their jobs basic skills developed in the course. The purpose of the present study, which focuses on those 340…
Descriptors: Course Content, Educational Research, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Developing and Assessing Instrumentation to Reflect Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Proposal Development and Funding. Draft.
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Loadman, William E.; Cook, Desmond – 1982
The degree to which perceptions and attitudes about the proposal development and funding process can be assessed was studied. The study tried to determine if educational researchers had different perceptions of proposal writing, based upon the degree of experience in proposal development and peer review activities, as well as the sex of the…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Educational Finance, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
The Student Evaluation of the Affiliates Project. Project Implementation Guide. A Guide To Assist Local Literacy Programs in Implementing a Student-to-Student Program Evaluation Process.
Literacy Volunteers of America--Connecticut, Hartford. – 1992
This paper provides a brief implementation guide to assist programs that wish to replicate the project (a literacy tutoring program that sought to determine student needs and encourage student input), as well as an abstract of the project that created it and summaries of the results and participants' responses at two sites. The guide presents…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Data Analysis
Patterns of Participation in Canadian Literacy and Upgrading Programs: Results of a National Follow-Up Study.
Long, Ellen – 2001
In early 1999, ABC Canada and Literacy British Columbia (BC) worked with 55 literacy organizations across Canada to study student recruitment and retention. Telephone interviews were conducted with 338 people who had contacted programs seeking literacy information or services (callers). Findings indicated callers constituted a broad cross-section…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Developed Nations