Public education has both political, or social, and personal, or self-improvement objectives; in addition it provides much of the moral quality of a democratic society. Each function--personal, political, and moral--has special significance for continuing education. Adults continue their education to update their job skills or to seek satisfaction…

The proceedings of the 1972 annual meeting of the Association of University Evening Colleges are reported. In this meeting the AUEC examined its role, as well as the role of individual institutions, in meeting the new demands of higher education. The addresses were: (1) "What Are the Keys to Organizational Renewal?" by Robert G. Farris; (2) "What…

Findings from a survey and comparison of urban Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs generated several statements of action implications for urban ABE directors: (1) differentiate major target populations for purposes of program development and reporting; (2) make two parallel efforts to recruit participants--one for easiest-to-reach, middle…

A 4-phase project, this study was conducted to determine the feasibility of a bilingual vocational skill training program for out-of-school youth and adults of the Perth Amboy Hispanic community. Sampled were 494 out-of-school youth and adults in the area. Findings include: (1) There is a significant need for an adult vocational skills training…

This teaching guide, to be used with the "Employability Plan Reference Manual," is for use in training the older worker specialist to write a sequential plan for using appropriate services to solve applicants' vocationally relevant problems. The following areas are covered: (1) summary of process for developing employability plans; (2) preparation…

For Tanzanians, education to be meaningful implies human development through education. Tanzania's commitment to build a socialist state, based on traditional African socialism, is also a commitment to socialist education, the necessary tool for social development. Since work is a lifelong duty for any socialist, work-oriented education is also a…

The motive power in Algeria's national educational system has been and still remains the ideological force of the Algerian revolution. After independence was won, a dramatic increase in school enrollments (resulting from decentralization) intensified the need for more teachers, better facilities and materials, new curricula, oriented to national…

This paper is intended as a proposed framework for discussion at UNESCO's Interdisciplinary Symposium on Life-long Education. It synthesizes the papers submitted by re-grouping the questions posed, the problems identified, and the steps taken or considered in order to determine the scope, the nature and the modalities of the process leading to…

Since the ideal of lifelong education is closely related to the reorganization of the entire educational system, it is necessary to recognize the distinction between education and its administration. Democratization, continuity, flexibility and freedom are principles related to planning and administration; active participation, initiative and…

Books, articles, periodicals, and other publications in this annotated bibliography deal with adult education in rural areas in Great Britain. Items are grouped into the following areas: (1) publications on rural life of significance in the study of adult education in rural areas; (2) rural adult education in the context of general educational…

The Finnish-Canadian Citizenship Project was organized to teach English to older Canadians of Finnish descent in British Columbia. The 24 enrollees had between one and ten years of formal schooling. The Finnish Canadians use a dialect of English words with Finnish pronunciations that must be unlearned in order to learn English. The students…

This project undertook to demonstrate the effectiveness of a counseling and community services center for deaf people in a metropolitan area. The experiment was based on the need to broaden the service base for deaf people, many of whom are not aware of or not able to make adequate use of regular community service facilities because of the…

A guide is provided for establishing a college-level education program for inmates of correctional institutions based on the NewGate concept. Necessary first steps are evaluation of current facilities, selection of the sponsoring agency, and selection of the student body. Guidelines for student selection deal with application procedure, record…

University education for the practicing or aspiring professional-practitioner should be considered the beginning or extension of lifelong learning, a continuing educational requirement. University Extension programming at the University of Wisconsin covers a wide range of professional, farming, and other areas. Efforts are underway to redesign…

This annotated bibliography is a selected listing from the collection of the National Multimedia Center for Basic Education. It includes teacher-support and student-use texts, workbooks, classroom kits, references sources, guidance and counseling aids, testing and appraising materials, special guides to job opportunities, career organizations and…