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Download full textHAAPIO, MARJA – 1967
ADULT EDUCATION DEGREES IN FINLAND ARE OFFERED ONLY AT THE INSTITUTE OF ADULT EDUCATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE. STUDY IS PURELY THEORETICAL WITH EXAMINATIONS BEING GIVEN AT THREE LEVELS. MOST OF THE RESEARCH ON ADULT EDUCATION HAS BEEN CONDUCTED BY THE INSTITUTE. BEGINNING IN 1873 WITH LECTURES AT A WOMEN'S ACADEMY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Community Education
Benn, Roseanne, Ed.; Fieldhouse, Roger, Ed. – 1998
This document contains six papers examining the theoretical and practical development of university adult continuing education (ACE) curricula in the late 1990s. The following are among the factors considered in "An Exploration of the Factors Affecting the Adult Continuing Education Curriculum" (Roseanne Benn): goals; cultural,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies
Peer reviewedCooper, B. Lee – Music Educators Journal, 1991
Depicts ways popular song lyrics can stimulate discussion either in music, social studies, humanities, or language arts classes. Considers lyrics' ability to explain social, cultural, and political phenomena. Provides a chronological outline from 1962 correlating political events, personalities, songs, and the artists. songs. Identifies uses of…
Descriptors: Censorship, Childrens Literature, Course Content, Cultural Education
Arts, Education, and Americans, Inc., New York, NY. – 1980
One of a series designed to help school arts support groups increase public commitment to their programs, this monograph addresses the concerns of local school boards in instituting or maintaining arts education. Content is divided into 10 sections that cover rationale for arts education, local problems of budgeting and cutbacks, obtaining backing…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Expression, Board of Education Policy
Dempsey, Owen P.; Lucas, Beverley J. – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2006
This article explores a qualitative evaluation of student and tutor perceptions of the educational aims, methods and impact of undertaking a new medical humanities student selected module (SSM) within one medical school in the United Kingdom. The findings of the study build on previous work within this subject area and provide insight of learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Humanities, Critical Thinking
Trustee Quarterly, 1990
This document consists of the four issues of the "Trustee Quarterly" for 1990. This series covers topics of current concern to community college trustees. The winter 1990 issue contains articles examining the pros and cons of board standing committees, the role of boards in planning and institutional effectiveness, innovative fund raising in…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Affirmative Action, Board Administrator Relationship, College Administration
McMann, Richard C. – 1981
Results of research and evaluation carried out by the To Educate the People Consortium are reported. (The purpose of the consortium is to create a national network of humanities-based adult-oriented college programs offering an interdisciplinary curriculum leading to an associate or baccalaureate degree for blue-collar and low-status white collar…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees
Newark School District, DE. – 1976
The units contained in this guide are intended primarily as resource materials to assist elementary school teachers in identifying units into which career awareness concepts can be infused and also in identifying instructional activities that correlate basic skills and career education objectives. Introductory information includes a definition of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Awareness, Career Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1982
Approaches used by colleges and universities to implement values clarification and inquiry, moral education and development, and normative and applied ethics into the curriculum are examined, along with the way that the schools are defining values education in terms of their own students and mission. In "Values in the Curriculum," Edward…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, College Curriculum, College Role
Council on Learning, New Rochelle, NY. – 1981
Recommendations and study results of the Council on Learning's "Education and the World View" project, which involved the Council and a task force of educators, public officials, and business leaders, was concerned with students' understanding of the world in relation to the United States' role in world affairs. The 1980 national survey of 3,000…
Descriptors: College Role, College Students, Educational Assessment, Foreign Culture
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Detroit, MI. – 1977
This document outlines a labor studies program which may lead to several levels of achievement: a certificate in labor studies, an associate degree, an associate of arts degree, or a transfer of credits leading to a baccalaureate degree. The program is intended for labor union members or for anyone else interested in labor studies. Objectives of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arbitration, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees
Jacobs, Rita D. – 1977
Addressing the current employment crisis in the humanities fields, this paper examines employment opportunities for Ph.D. graduates outside the university environment. The report notes that humanities graduates have learned skills of research, problem solving, and writing, and that graduate training emphasizes the ability to penetrate underlying…
Descriptors: American Studies, Attitude Change, Bibliographies, Business
McConnell, Mary C. – 1977
Growing interest in teaching philosophy in elementary and secondary school prompted a 1975 national survey to determine the present status of philosophy as a component in the curriculum. Possible contributions of philosophy to students' personal growth and critical thinking skills are explored. The first section of the paper presents the following…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Processes
Murphy, Judith; Jones, Lonna – 1976
This document provides an overview of art education research funded by the Arts and Humanities Program (AHP) from 1965-70. Several dozen research and development projects, selected from among the more than 200 initiated during this period, are analyzed to indicate the wide range of scope and funding, nominal success or failure, distribution among…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Teachers, Childrens Art
Childs, Gayle B., Ed. – 1971
This report provides, in tabular form, Association of University Evening Colleges (AUEC)-National University Extension Association (NUEA) programs and registrations for 1970-1971. Academic subjects are grouped under the following basic headings: Agriculture, Behavioral Sciences, Biological Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Health…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavioral Sciences
