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Tanner, Julian; Davies, Scott; O'Grady, Bill – 1999
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) were used to identify the long-term effects of youth delinquency on education and employment. The study utilized data on 1,452 males and 1,397 females who were initially interviewed for the NLSY in 1979 and data collected on the same sample in 1990-1992. The 1990-1992 data set contained…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Crime, Delinquency, Educational Attainment
McCarthy, Florence E. – 2003
Using the concept of triangles as a schematic conceptualization of service learning is a useful pedagogical tool in helping faculty, students, and community members to see the linkages among the component concepts in service learning approaches. Service learning, which is the linking of academic instruction with community service as guided by…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Involvement, Community Role, Community Services
Kerka, Sandra – 2003
Although evidence for the existence of multiple careers is limited, the literature of career development, training, and human resource development has predicted that individuals will have many careers as well as jobs across the lifespan, and small-scale studies and trend analysis suggest that individuals may need to plan and prepare for different…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Career Change, Career Choice
Peters, Bridget Ayuk – 1998
The quality of communication linkages between farmers and the agricultural agencies responsible for diffusion of innovations in the South West Province of Cameroon was examined in a study of all 25 researchers and 150 extension agents in the province and 385 farmers who were randomly selected from the province's 3,000 farmers. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agricultural Education
1999
These four papers are from a symposium on human resource development (HRD) in the United Kingdom. "HRD and Psychological Contracts: A Case Study of Lifelong Learning" (Graeme Martin, Judy Pate, Jim McGoldrick) explores the influence of a lifelong learning program on employee perceptions of their psychological contracts in a longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Career Development
Florida Community Coll., Jacksonville. – 1998
This workbook, one of six professional development manuals for adult education (AE) teachers, explores instructional methodologies to promote student success, the theories behind them, and their applications in the self-paced, open-entry/open-exit AE classroom. The pretest and posttest appear first. Each of the seven units begins with a list of…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
Bagnall, Richard G. – 1999
This book examines the implications of postmodern culture for adult education through a review of modernist culture and education and a comparative account of modernist and postmodernist culture that is configured as a set of six tensions in three domains: belief (situatedness and ambiguity); individual identity (determination and control); and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change
Lawson, K. H. – 1998
This book, which is intended primarily for students and others interested in the theory and practice of adult education, contains nine essays demonstrating how traditional adult education values that are derived from philosophies of "individualism" also imply a "public" dimension that is referred to as "mutuality" and manifested not only in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Citizenship Education, Conventional Instruction
Hunter, John – 2001
The theory of scientific management was established as a way to increase workers' productivity. The following are among the key principles underpinning scientific management: task simplification and division of labor boost productivity; management must control the planning of work down to its minutiae; and remuneration should be based on output.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Competence, Competency Based Education, Educational Principles
Walsh, Anne – 2001
This paper describes the journey of a former female electrician turned technical and further education teacher turned professional development officer who is now completing her PhD. It also describes the challenges she overcame to make the transition from tradesperson to researcher. It is a personal account of discovery. It describes the most…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Development, Developed Nations
Wolski, Stacy; Jackson, Sally – 1999
Expectancy models of behavior such as the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) offer guidelines that aid efforts to facilitate use of new technology. These models remind us that both acceptance of and resistance to technology use are grounded in beliefs and norms regarding the technology. Although TAM is widely…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Change Strategies, College Faculty

Singer, Elly – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1996
Examines basic concepts forming the foundation for professional care and education of young children and how these concepts may impede interaction between teachers or caregivers and children. Critiques the concepts of natural development, developmentally appropriate curriculum, and child centeredness. Advocates increased scaffolding, increased…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning

Warf, Barney – Journal of Geography, 1997
Offers five themes from political geography that could be incorporated into college geography courses: historical specificity of geography; (2) interconnectedness of regions; (3) interpenetration of the human and natural worlds; (4) centrality of culture in social reproduction; and (5) use of political economy to uncover social relations. (MJP)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Economic Factors, Economics

Eisner, Elliot W. – Art Education, 1997
Reprints the 1966 article as a representative example of thinking about art education during the 1960s. Primarily answers criticisms raised by Victor D'Amico in his attack on the current state of art education, and art education research in particular. Defends this research against charges of irrelevancy and academic indulgence. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Teachers, Creative Expression, Criticism
Griffith, Jeanne E.; Medrich, Elliott A. – Prospects, 1992
Contends that, although surveys of international achievement have been of interest to the U.S. educational community, these studies are now receiving attention among policymakers. Asserts that significant changes are occurring in world economy and that international achievement comparisons are receiving coverage in the U.S. media. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives