This paper describes how one large, urban school district is successfully building a quality program for educators by combining organizational development, job embedded learning, and collaboration. POET (Professional Organizational Enhancement Training) works to improve learning by enhancing working environments in schools and departments. It…

Chormmunity is a group's collaborative, embodied text-making. It explores interfacings of intention, metaphor, empowerment, inspiration, vision, negotiation, collusion, the propositional, the practical, the experiential, the presentational, the tacit, the sociological, the psychological, epistemology, methodology, and ontology. Chormmunity is…

This study addressed how to maintain "use or lose" language skills among Department of Defense linguists. The study, which involved over 300 linguists at 61 installations worldwide, supported the Air Force strategy of global engagement by regularly providing pedagogically sound language maintenance materials in small doses and…

Author states a philosophy of education describing the significance of adult education at all levels in the development of a nation. (GB)

Learning is most effective to adults if the ideas presented are personally relevant. New experiences fit into existing frameworks. The teacher is more guide than information giver. (MS)

A Congressman discusses current and future needs and priorities, and the role of the Federal and local government in adult education. (SP)

Adult learning theory might be summed up in three words--need, effort and satisfaction. An adult will learn once a need has been identified, effort expended to satisfy that need, and the need finally being satisfied. (Author)

Reviews the popular notions of adult education in the national economic development process. (DS)

Suggests ways in which engineers could receive maximum benefit from adult education courses. (DS)

Report of a study on distance teaching,'' where teaching and learning occur in separate places; author feels the trend will be towards teaching students how to learn'' rather than specific subject matter. (SP)

Four part article: (1) a description of the program, (2) Grace Goodell's analysis of adult learning characteristics with emphasis on economic motivation, (3) a reply by J.D.N. Versluys emphasizing importance of teacher training, (4) a final comment by Goodell. (SP)

Includes a suggested ranking order'' of nine priorities. (Author)

Much of the article is based on a series of interviews with paraprofessionals in Head Start programs, conducted in 1970 by the authors for the Bank Street College of Education Career Development Training Program. (MB)

Evening extension classes for adults were observed for the relative effects of course content, cognitive factors, and affective factors on classroom behaviors of adult learners. The analysis indicated that input (course content) and process variables (cognitive and affective) influenced output variables (student behaviors) in complex ways.…