Adult Education

50 records
Title	Date	Abstract
Action learning for individual and organizational development	1998	Action learning is a continuous process of learning and reflection, bringing people together to solve problems. The brief pr...
Adult civic education	1992	This ERIC Digest highlights the significance of adult civic education in a democracy and examines the substance of adult civi...
Adult classroom environment: the role of the instructor	1991	The brief examines some recent research on the kind of classroom environment desired by adults and describes implications for...
Adult development: what do teachers of adults need to know?	1988	The publication outlines eight adult development models based on the theories of Maslow, Rogers, Kohlberg, Nelson, Erickson, ...
Adult education and postsecondary success	Sept 4, 2007	This is a policy brief developed for the August 20, 2007 meeting of the National Commission on Adult Literacy. "It examines G...
Adult education in California: strategic planning process needs assessment	November 2009	This report details the results of a needs assessment of adult education in California, performed in January 2009 by WestEd f...
Adult education programs and services: a view from nine programs	1990	This report summarizes a descriptive review of the operations and services of nine adult education programs that receive Fede...
Adult education: social change or status quo?	1996	This digest examines the debate over the mission of adult education: is it to transform individuals or society? It looks at...
Adult learner retention revisited	1994	This digest provides an updated look at research on retention in adult education in both adult basic education and higher edu...
Adult learning in groups	1997	The brief provides information that can be used in developing adult learning groups in formal educational settings. Included...
Adult students: recruitment and retention	2001	This brief examines reviews recent research related to adult student recruitment and retention and provides guidelines for re...
Andragogy revisited: theory for the 21st century?	2002	This publication examines the viability in the 21st century of Malcolm Knowles' theory of andragogy by considering its backgr...
Beyond 2000; future directions for adult education	1999	The paper provides adult educators with information that they can use to produce perspectives for the future of adult educati...
Challenges in assessing for postsecondary readiness	De 14, 2007	This policy brief examines the major assessments in use today to measure adult learning gains and determine student placement...
Change: connections to adult learning and education	2000	This digest explores the question of how adult learning and education can cultivate change with individuals and groups. Refe...
Collaborative learning in adult education	1991	The digest provides an overview of collaborative learning and describes how the process of collaborative learning can become ...
Contextual learning in adult education	2000	This brief examines the use in adult education of contextual learning, an offshoot of the constructivist approach to teaching...
Continuing education: market driven or learner centered?	1996	This publication looks at the controversy of whether continuing education programs should be market driven or learner centere...
Dare to dream, a collection of papers from a resource group of 102 education and literacy professionals	May 21, 2007	Presented at their April 2007 meeting, this collection of papers was developed to inform the thinking of the National Commiss...
Directory of federal funding sources for adult education	March 2009	This directory of federal funding sources describes 49 programs from ten agencies that authorize expenditures for adult basic...
Effects of learning in adult, career, and career-technical education	2003	This Alert examines some of the trends and issues associated with the role of emotion in learning in adult, career, and caree...
ERIC and the Adult Education Act: 25 Years of Collaboration	1991	The digest describes highlights the 25-year collaboration between the Adult Education Act (AEA) and the ERIC system. It begi...
Ethical practice in adult education	1991	This ERIC Digest describes some of the ethical dilemmas that are inherent in the education of adults and provides ideas that ...
Federal adult education: a legislative history 1964-2013	2013	This “American heritage” history traces the federal involvement in adult education in order to place federal adult education ...
Fiscal consequences of adult educational attainment	December 14, 2007	This policy brief prepared for the National Commission on Adult Literacy examines the earnings of adults according to their l...
Forces changing our nation's future	June 18, 2007	This is a report of one of the presentations made at the April 2007 meeting of the National Commission on Adult Literacy. A m...
Guidelines for working with adult learners	1988	The digest provides guidelines to consider when developing educational programs for adults in any setting. It focuses on the...
History of the Adult Education Act: an overview	1991	This document summaries the twenty-seven year history of the Adult Education Act to 1991.
How do you teach content in adult education? an annotated bibliography	October 2006	In this document, the authors provide sources of research and professional wisdom that are useful to the design of evidence-b...
How emancipatory is adult learning?	1999	This publication investigates to what extent adult education actually fulfills an emancipatory mission by examining beliefs a...
In a time of scarce resources: near term priorities in adult education	July 25, 2012	This report presents the results of a survey project in which over two dozen adult education and literacy leaders responded t...
Inclusive adult learning environments	1995	The Digest describes what it means to create an inclusive learning environment, examines some related issues, and presents so...
Informal adult learning and the Internet	2003	This Alert examines issues related to the Internet and its role in informal adult learning. References are given.
Is it working? Self help guide for evaluating vocational and adult education programs	1995	The guide presents a framework for use by adult and vocational programs to improve their approach to evaluation. Included are...
Journal writing and adult learning	1996	This digest focuses on several types of journals, exploring their value in assisting adults through their learning journey an...
Journal writing as an adult learning tool	2002	This brief reviews the research and practice literature and describes issues and methods involved in incorporating journal wr...
Learners' engagement in adult literacy education	March 2006	The study described in this report focused on how learning context shapes engagement by adult learners. Understanding how an...
Legislator's resource book: adult education services - the success, the impact and the need	June 2009	This document contains state-by-state data on adult education programs. The data is taken from USDE OVAE's National Reporting...
Legislators' resource book: adult education services - the success, the impact and the need	May 2007	This document contains state-by-state snapshots of adult education programs from 2003-04. Included on each fact sheet are sta...
Lifelong learning	2000	This publication examines the concept of lifelong learning and the myths surrounding gap between the ideal and real learning ...
Local perspectives on WIA reauthorization	March 26, 2010	This policy brief reports on the February 18, 2010 CAAL Roundtable discussion of WIA and the Adult Education and Economic Gro...
Low-income adults in profile: improving lives through higher education	February 2004	“This report describes the low-income adult student population, outlines the many challenges that they face, and explains the...
Minority participation in continuing education	1993	The trends of larger numbers of diverse groups in the U.S. work force, the need for continuing education and retraining, and ...
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy	May 21, 2007	This is a report of one of the presentations made at the April 2007 meeting of the National Commission on Adult Literacy. The...
Multiple intelligences and adult education	2000	This alert reviews the ways that multiple intelligence (MI) theory has been investigated in adult literacy education. Ext...
National Literacy Act	1991	This document summaries the National Literacy Act of 1991 and its relationship to the Adult Education Act.
Net annual fiscal contributions of US adults aged 18-64 by educational attainment, 2009-2012	January, 2014	This paper analyzes the fiscal gains to the nation and to individuals of high school and college graduation for adults aged 1...
New views of adult learning	1999	This alert examines some of the recent trends in the literature of adult learning. Included are transformative learning, adu...
Partners for lifelong learning: public libraries and adult education	1991	This booklet consists of two commissioned papers written by library educators describing the role of public libraries in adul...
Part-time instructors in adult and vocational education	1993	The digest looks at the increased use of part-time instructors in adult and vocational education. It examines the education ...