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Harris, Clyde E., Jr. – Training and Development Journal, 1972
Article describes a specialized organizational development program designed for total integration in the training effort. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Crane, Donald P. – Training and Development Journal, 1972
Article describes the results of a survey on the use of participative learning in management training. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Industrial Training
Peer reviewedAhmed, Mushtaq – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1972
Dropouts were interviewed and the results are tabulated. (SP)
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Farmer Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Peer reviewedPadron, Hiram – Convergence, 1972
Describes a school which provides non-credit classes and correspondence study to increase Venezuela's skilled work force.'' (Editor)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Commuter Colleges
Sherron, R. H. – Adult Leadership, 1972
Author describes the making of a professional package that would create the desired image and stimulate the public at all levels to support, promote and participate in adult education. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Communications
Peer reviewedFinlayson, J. S. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1972
Experience gained for teaching elementary chemistry to adults led to the following working conclusions necessary if such courses are to succeed: a need for student self-admission of ignorance, diagnostic testing and frequent retesting, a willingness by student and instructor to compromise and to digress, the inclusion of ad hoc demonstrations and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Biochemistry, Chemistry
Peer reviewedPahlavi, Ashraf – Convergence, 1971
The article describes Iran's attempts to eradicate illiteracy. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Planning, Illiteracy
Deep, Donald – Adult Leadership, 1972
Describes curriculum materials that can be incorporated into an easily managed instructional system that allows for the accurate diagnosis of each students' learning needs. (Author/LF)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Diagnosis
McElreath, Mark P. – Adult Leadership, 1972
Describes Rural Family Development (RFD), a demonstration project which takes adult education into the home by way of weekly TV shows, specially prepared instructional bulletins, and person-to-person contact with trained home visitors. (ML)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Souch, S. G. – Can Counselor, 1970
Suggests that present restrictive view of training advocated by federal authorities may lead only to short term economic gain and requests that counselors working with disadvantaged groups support a more liberal approach to human development in Manpower training programs. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Counseling
Darkenwald, Gordon G. – Cogito - Knowledge and Action in Adult Education, 1971
Suggests that a limited, substantive theory inductively derived from comparative analysis of actual program operation can be practical. A comparative field study of public school adult basic education programs is given as an example. (Author/DR)
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs
Knox, Alan B. – Cogito - Knowledge and Action in Adult Education, 1971
Purpose of this essay is to propose a better method for interrelating knowledge and action so that education is more relevant. The approach is called an Action Seminar. The success of any method will be greater if learners and mentors engage in activities that they consider appropriate and important. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Experimental Curriculum
Beagle, Peggy; Melnyk, W. T. – Continuous Learning, 1971
Article is an excerpt from Mrs. Beagle's original analysis and includes such considerations as increases in enrollment, university admission policies, counseling, study skills, study facilities, and financial policies and practices affecting adult students. References. (RB)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Finance
Williams, Don – Florida Adult Educator, 1971
Dade County, Florida, is developing seventy half hour programs in English as a Second Language to serve the thousands of adult Spanish speaking residents. (AN)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Audiovisual Aids, Educational Strategies
NUEA Spectator, 1971
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, American Indians, Disadvantaged


