Citing wrong priorities and methods and lack of conviction as reasons for illiteracy in India increasing by about 15 per cent in the first 24 years of independence, the author calls for emphasis on primary and adult education, some of it informal, as in the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment. (JT)

Designed to identify the information and knowledge resource needs of persons working in the area of women in development (WID), this study analyzed inquiries directed to the Non-Formal Education (NFE) Information Center to determine the nature and frequency of requests and the variables that distinguish kinds of WID interests and resource needs.…

In this group of presentations from the 1978 National Conference on Higher Education, three researchers examine the need for the educational community to become more creatively responsive to the learning needs of adults. K. Patricia Cross delineates the difference between "adult education" and "adult learning". She discusses findings on adult…

Identified are systematic visitor observation techniques to provide data to show visitors' reactions to interpretive programming. Use of this data should enhance the ability of the interpretive naturalists to plan, conduct, and evaluate interpretive programming. The suggested techniques can be accomplished without outside help, and can be…

Described is a project designed to present four training sessions for community specialists representing outreach interests such as cooperative extension, senior citizens organizations, and welfare agencies. Training consists of instruction in contemporary knowledge, skills, and methods of home energy conservation, and in how to teach others to…

This is the final report on the background and proceedings of the Regional Meeting of Experts on Environmental Education in Africa, convened by UNESCO with the collaboration of the University of Brazzaville. This meeting was one of five similar ones held throughout the world as a follow-up to the UNESCO Conference held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.…

This publication focuses on the role and training of front-line development workers (paraprofessionals). It describes the non-formal education approach to their training and to the learning which they facilitate among their neighbors. Several pages are devoted to brief project descriptions illustrating some of the ways in which development…

This newsletter addresses the problems of educating youth for employment in developing nations. The Project Highlights is described in detail and other programs are reviewed. Included is a selective bibliography of case studies and reports pertaining to nonformal youth education internationally. (SL)

This paper, a discussion of papers by Robert S. Randall, Greta Fein, Richard Bauman and Murray Newman, looks at informal learning from an anthropological viewpoint with an emphasis on inversive theory. It is suggested that the irrational elements of informal learning, the combinations of order and disorder, allow children to relate to reality by…

The purpose of the Korea/Seadag seminar was to advance the systematic development of nonformal education and to maximize the development of human resources. Specific objectives are related to evolving future programs of nonformal education in Korea and East Asia. The report focuses on participant discussions regarding the conceptualization,…

Folklore, a body of traditional beliefs of a people conveyed orally or by means of custom, is very much alive, involves all people, and is not the study of popular culture. In studying folklore, the principal tasks of the folklorist have been defined as determining definition, classification, source (the folk), origin (who composed folklore),…

The major responsibility of this workshop on nonformal education is to establish some prototypes of community training activities which will coordinate with the agricultural and health components of Ethiopia's Fourth Five Year Plan for rural development and which can later be reproduced in the countryside. Linking education to overall development…

A proposed tenth dimension to the Los Angeles Community Colleges nine-campus system would be a college "type" organization but without any campus location. Its purpose would be to provide educational programs and collegiate recognition of the following six concepts: the concept of life-time learning, shift emphasis from degree…

References in this annotated bibliography concentrate on anthropological research concerning formal and informal education. The bibliography is selective, and the criteria are guided primarily by four questions: What basic concepts oriented the writer? What was done? How was it done? What was the disciplinary, or cultural, identity of the person…

The confluence of three major forces has given a new significance to nonformal education for the developing countries--denied educational opportunities and resource constraints, questions about the relevance of formal education, and growing awareness of the importance of lifelong education. The absence of inadequacies of concepts and priorities of…