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Peer reviewedCommunity Services Catalyst, 1974
A February 1973 report of the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education (California) is the source of this study of adult learning needs. (Editor)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Educational Development, Educational Planning
Peer reviewedRuddle, Kenneth; Chesterfield, Ray – Community Development Journal, 1974
An exception to Latin American extension program's stereotyped image of women is the Venezuelan home demonstrator program. A woman spends three years in trainning to enable her to effectively train village housewives in culturally acceptable ways to participate in the commercial sector of a modern farming economy. (AG)
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Employed Women, Extension Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCross, K. Patricia – Journal of Higher Education, 1973
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Degree Requirements, Experimental Programs, Extension Education
Wenck, Dorothy A. – Extension Service Review, 1973
A course, titled New Approaches to Consumer Homemaking Education'', was designed to help teachers improve their teaching effectiveness, make their classes more consumer oriented, and more relevant to low income students. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Extension Education
Morris, Roger – American Libraries, 1973
Libraries are getting involved with open university programs. Some of them are so structured however, that they contradict the concept of independent learning. Problems to be considered include: 1) should librarians adopt the role of teachers? 2) should participants be recruited? 3) what are funding priorities? (DH)
Descriptors: Extension Education, External Degree Programs, Independent Study, Librarians
Njoku, Osuji – Intellect, 1973
African countries must provide opportunities outside the formal educational institutions for youths and adults to acquire knowledge and skills for self-improvement. (Editor)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Developing Nations, Educational Development, Educational Finance
Peer reviewedThomas, J. E. – Studies in Adult Education, 1972
Article is concerned with the development of university adult education from which pressures have emerged for the development of universal styles and methods of working. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education Centers, Educational Administration, Educational Development
Peer reviewedRuhland, Florence R. – Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 1973
Telelecture is a system by which a lecturer's voice is transmitted through a telephone line, fed into amplifiers and then heard through loudspeakers at any number of distant locations. (Author)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Extension Education, Guidelines, Lecture Method
Fuller, Jack W. – Journal of Business Education, 1972
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, College Programs
Peer reviewedStevens, Edward W., Jr. – History of Education Quarterly, 1972
The rise and fall of educational and recreational centers in the early part of the 20th century. (RA)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Continuing Education Centers, Education Service Centers
Parolkar, J. S. – Literacy Work, 1972
Study in India showed that functionally literate farmers produced higher crop yields. (SP)
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Adult Literacy, Agricultural Production, Educational Background
Peer reviewedLafferty, P. E. – Physics Education, 1972
Descriptors: Directories, Extension Education, Inservice Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Wallize, John A. – Extension Service Review, 1971
Relates Iowa's experience with a Government by the People" program for adults using materials from high-school public affairs course on local government. Among the results: most participants believed there would be fewer governmental problems if all people agreed on objectives; most are already satisfied with their local governments. (PD)
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Problems, Discussion Groups
NUEA Spectator, 1971
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Programs, Extension Education
Marvin, R. Paul – Amer Vocat J, 1970
The author cites the importance of agricultural production and suggests a corps of rural youth trained as Ag technicians. (Editor)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Technicians, Developing Nations
