The Illinois annual program plan for adult education programs under the supervision and administration of the Illinois Office of Education is presented based on the guidelines provided by the Adult Education Act (Public Law 91-230). Presented in seven parts, the plan begins with general information on the administrative agency, funding, and…

The book provides a detailed rationale and illustrative instruments for adult education program evaluation, emphasizing adult basic education. It is particularly helpful to persons who have program evaluation responsibilities as a part of administrative or teaching responsibilities. Chapter 1 focuses upon the various contexts of adult basic…

The Federally sponsored regional training workshops for adult education personnel in cultural/ethnic understanding were designed to increase the level of awareness of cultural/ethnic differences. A training design was developed following an analysis of the Culturally Oriented Teacher Education Materials developed by the Phelps-Stokes Fund, a…

The document contains information on adult education in India, consisting mainly of a collection of previously published articles from professional journals and other related communications focusing on: input factors, nonformal education, voluntary organizations, literacy, community development, urban education, worker education, Satellite…

The curriculum guide was designed to develop within adult education a career education model program for Louisiana and to help teachers, counselors, and administrators in planning and implementing creative and innovative activities in the field of career awareness and exploration. This collection of recommended ideas, activities, and procedures…

These two volumes comprise the official proceedings of the second White House Conference on Aging, held November 28-December 2, 1971. Volume I includes an overview of the Conference plan--its background, concepts, organization, and programming. It presents the contributions made by speakers at the General Sessions and Conference Delegate…

The value of a special nutrition program in three Northeast Louisiana parishes as to the effectiveness of the structured organizational approach, the teaching methods and techniques used, and use of sub-professional workers from their respective community was studied. The nutrition knowledge of 120 homemakers was determined before any training in…

Three papers from a half-day seminar which formed part of a meeting of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession have been compiled in this document. An Overview of Adult Education in England and Wales and the Role of the Professional Education Association by E. W. Foulser touches on the absence of a pattern in the…

Project BEAM, a special experimental demonstration project funded by the Adult Education Act, attempted to motivate undereducated adult Iowans to learn to read, to make the project known, and to make available for nationwide distribution the television and radio materials developed for the project. The two-phase project was conducted from…

U. S. Office of Education funding has been provided to Region Nine for fiscal year 1973 for an Adult Basic Education (ABE) staff development effort, aimed at improving the delivery of adult education services to meet target population needs and Federal program goals through preservice and inservice training of personnel engaged in adult education…

The Urban Adult Learning Center's (UALC) primary goal is to improve and expand the educational and employment opportunities for all residents in the Portland Model Cities target area who are 16 years of age or older and who have not reached the eighth grade educational level. The Phase Two Foundation section reviews historical background and goals…

A reference bank of persons with expertise in educational, socioeconomic, and cultural matters as they relate to non-English speaking Spanish-surnamed adults has been compiled. Approximately 700 persons residing in 33 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Italy are listed. A brief resume of each person listed includes…

This study aimed at describing: the forced attachment of two suburban districts and the extension of adult education opportunities to a disadvantaged community, the process and actions involved in establishing the Carver School Adult Education Program, and the attempt to provide educational opportunities for the adults of the Carver School area.…

The Adult Career Education Counseling Project classified 800 documents relevant to the competencies needed by counselors of adults and has presented them in a classification schema of seven major categories: (1) Counseling and Guidance, (2) Adult Counseling and Guidance, (3) Adult Education, (4) Career Education, (5) Competencies, (6) Training,…

The handbook describes the design and specifies the operating procedures for new careers projects funded by the Department of Labor. Such issues as the program and sponsor standards, eligibility requirements, contracting, reporting and self-appraisal systems, jobs in the human services and technical assistance are explained in detail and specific…