The demonstration project, running from June 1971 to June 1974, sought to reduce the educational and occupational disadvantages of Puerto Rican unemployed and underemployed adults. The program served 1,241 participants, ranging in age from 16 to 60 and in grade level from zero to approximately twelfth grade. Average attendance was 24 days, on a…

Programs have been designed and counseling services have been set up to meet the special needs of adult women returning to school. (KE)

The case description of an adult education program in Saudi Arabia contained in this document is part of a set that reflects a cooperative effort by adult educators to increase international understanding of various educational programs for adults in their societal context. A face sheet provides this information: name, organization, and address of…

The kind of history that is taught in the non-traditional contexts which utilize Distance Learning systems, especially at the United Kingdom's Open University (OU) and Australia's Deakin University, emphasizes the relationship of history to the other academic disciplines rather than the traditional approach of enumerating the history of famous…

This article describes a life-skills program, in a community college, with its major objective to assist disadvantaged adults in obtaining employment opportunities. There is a need for faculty to respond to the culturally different and for new teaching consistent with learning styles of the alienated. Specific program guide-lines are presented.…

The implementation of Indian adult education programs will depend upon the establishment of adequate staffing and training requirements and ensuring that identification, recruitment, and training is adequate for the needs. (Author/AG)

The evolution of the Continuing Education Unit (CEU) may be one of the most significant developments in decades. The concept appears to be gaining widespread acceptance. Current efforts toward establishing a national CEU data bank would add further impetus to the utilization of the Unit. (Author/MW)

Competency based education is particularly suited to adult education programs because adults often possess practical experience which may enable them to demonstrate sufficient specific competencies without taking formal coursework. While this approach to adult education programs has several advantages, seven problem areas should be carefully…

The article deals with the usability of the organizational-theoretical approach in the research of voluntary study organizations and with the difficulties this approach entails. (Author)

The author discusses the relevance of a modular system to adult education programs and explains how a tentative module system for workers' education was set up in Zambia. (Author/JB)

The literature was studied to investigate some of the significant factors that affect participation of the non-institutionalized older person in lifelong learning programs. Sources were fairly recent (1975-80) abstracts, journals, textbooks, ERIC documents, and SCAN (The Social Gerontology Resource Center). The age-span under consideration was age…