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Peer reviewedMoreland, Rosemary; Lovett, Tom – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1997
A survey of adult learning opportunities in Belfast, Northern Ireland, found an emerging sector of community and voluntary organizations offering programs emphasizing issue-based, action-oriented learning in a democratic participative culture. They offer alternatives to traditional formal providers of liberal adult education. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Organizations, Foreign Countries
Download full textChurch, Kathryn – 2001
This working paper is intended to enrich an initial description of alternative businesses and A-Way Express Couriers, in particular. (A-Way, a 12-year-old community organization, is a psychiatric survivor-run alternative business.) The paper begins with a brief commentary on the psychiatric survivor movement and research on it. The paper traces…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business, Community Development, Community Organizations
