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Direct linkIsaac Kofi Biney – Adult Learning, 2025
This paper draws on Freire's social philosophy arguing that adult education (AE) relates to community development (CD). The provision of AE opportunities serves as bait for community members (CMs) to participate in CD projects. This exploratory study undertaken in Ghana, interviewed 9 PhD students on how AE relates to CD, and how adult educators…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes, Adult Education
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1989
A policy statement by the Committee on Agricultural and Rural Development of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) is presented. The mission of AASCU institutions involved in education and rural development includes to help strengthen the rural population and to dispel its isolation, reduce its poverty, link it to the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Role, Equal Education, Higher Education
Oliver, Leonard P. – 1987
The study circle concept, now almost a century old, is by far the most popular form of adult education in Sweden. Swedish study circles are sponsored by 10 national educational associations that receive substantial annual subsidies from the national government. Together with 140 folk high schools (residential adult programs), university short…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Discussion Groups, Educational History
Institute of Lifetime Learning, Washington, DC. – 1980
This report synthesizes the discussions and the recommendations of a conference on lifelong learning held at Wingspread (Racine, Wisconsin) in November, 1980. Co-sponsored by the National Retired Teachers Association, the American Association of Retired Persons, the Commission on Education for Aging of the Adult Education Association/USA, the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aging (Individuals), Citizen Participation, Daily Living Skills
Nemeth, Balazs, Ed.; Poggeler, Franz, Ed. – 2002
This book, which focuses on how personality, societal values and politics have influenced the mission of adult education, contains 34 papers originally presented at a 2000 conference on the history of adult education. Following a Foreword (Poggeler) and Preface (Nemeth) the papers are: "The Globalization of Adult Education and the One World…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agricultural Education, Andragogy
