The effectiveness of visual aids in nonformal education depends on their relevance to the audience with which they are used, and this booklet provides a discussion of various factors for field workers to consider in designing and using simple visual aids in developing countries. Four specific types of visual aids are discussed in some…

An introduction to the classification principles for documents at the Non-Formal Education Information Center is given for the cataloger. The classification scheme, itemized in the first section, consists of 11 main categories such as concepts, training methods, program content, bibliographies, and countries. The next section details…

A workshop model specifically designed to help people decide whether to become parents or remain childfree is presented. A variety of tools, procedures, and skills, such as a scale to assess one's level of commitment to remaining childfree, are discussed. Desirable characteristics of the workshop facilitator, and the need for evaluation of the…

This workbook is intended as a guide for the homeowner in taking steps to reduce home energy costs. It allows the homeowner to identify procedures applicable to his/her home and then implement those procedures most cost-effective for the particular situation. It provides methods for estimating savings in home heating and cooling costs by taking…

As the final volume in a 4-volume evaluation report on the University of Massachusetts Non-Formal Education Project (UMass NFEP) initiated in rural Ecuador in 1973, this volume presents appendices to volumes I-III. Appendix A includes the following items: (1) Community Demographic Profile; (2) Description of Introduction to the Community; (3)…

This bibliography on continuing education is taken primarily from a more extensive bibliography. Entries consist almost entirely of non-annotated listings of books, periodicals, series publications, and Federal laws. (KM)

Adult educators, in non-formal, open university educational systems, must develop strategies for meeting the communication needs of a multilingual, educationally disadvantaged population, thus enabling language to be the vehicle for educational development. (LH)

Examines the relationship between problems encountered in adult education and socio-political, socio-cultural, and socio-economic influences. Explains how adult education programs can help serve a wider variety of needs than does the formal education system. Identifies shortcomings of adult education programs. (Author/DB)

Formal educational structures create social inequities which nonformal schooling can partially remedy in developing countries. The author describes the potential usefulness of nonformal education in mass education, reducing urban and rural differentiation, and providing job credentials. Programs can be operated within primary schools or community…

The author describes his lifelong involvement in education, particularly in Bangladesh, including pilot projects for rural development, literacy, education of women and girls, health and family planning, village cooperatives, and a feeder school program. (SK)

Presents a case study of a nonformal adult worker education course in South Africa and the judgments reached through the evaluation of the course. It is evaluated via the educational framework, sociological framework, and historical framework. The author also examines the idea of curriculum in nonformal education. (CT)

The Women's Institutes of Great Britain and Canada have for many years been important providers of education for rural women. The author shows how the scope of this educational work has come to extend beyond rural and domestic crafts to encompass the changing needs and roles of women. (Author/CT)

Discusses population education programs in China, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. Sri Lanka is developing audio-visual materials and integrating population education into secondary science and social studies curricula. Nepal is transmitting nonformal population education messages to adults through…

The author feels that the basic key to Tanzania's successful literacy program has been the national will to dare to eradicate illiteracy. Adult education centers/committees and a teacher training system were established; all mass media and national institutions were geared to promote the program. (EA)

Discusses the importance of emphasizing the active role of the student and of considering nonschool areas of student learning in the curriculum development process. Available from Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1701 K Street, N.W., Suite 1100, Washington, D.C. 20006, single copies, $2.00. (JG)