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Download full textAvoseh, Mejai B. M., Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2018
These "Proceedings" derived from the Commission for International Adult Education's (CIAE) 2018 International Pre-Conference. They contain 23 papers from 32 authors. Eight of the lead authors are graduate students -- four are rounding up their Master's degrees while four are on their doctoral programs. The rest are a mix of seasoned and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Role of Education, Innovation, Technology Uses in Education
Direct linkIrving, Catherine J. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
Amidst calls for libraries to regain their socially progressive roots and connections to community, this study analyzes two interwoven cases of nonformal, community education in northeastern Nova Scotia, initiated by libraries that aimed to revive those links. Through a reading circle and a people's school, librarians used historical materials on…
Descriptors: Community Education, Adult Education, Libraries, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHarris, E. M. – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 1997
Describes nonformal educational strategies designed by a university outreach department working in a rural community facing economic crisis. Questions the university's commitment to social responsibility in discontinuing the outreach department and other such effective programs. (SK)
Descriptors: College Role, Community Education, Economic Development, Extension Education
Cohnstaedt, Martin L. – 1973
Saskatchewan's Meadow Lake Special Area is predominantly north of the Fifty-fourth parallel on the west side of northern Saskatchewan. An agreement between the Department of Regional Economic Expansion and the province provide for manpower training necessitated by industrial and economic expansion. At first a large vocational school was intended…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, American Indian Education, American Indians, Canada Natives
Hall, Budd, Ed.; And Others – 1982
This book, consisting of 13 papers, deals with the theory, practice, and reactions to participatory research in the area of social research for development. Included in the volume are the following papers: "Breaking the Monopoly of Knowledge: Research Methods, Participation, and Development," by Budd Hall; "Creating Alternative…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Programs, Educational Research
