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Peer reviewedRosenthal, Nadine – Adult Learning, 1990
Passive learners rarely play a role in their own education, but follow whatever their teachers decide is best for them. Active learners are self-motivated, independent people who take responsibility for themselves. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Cognitive Style, Empowerment
United Nations, New York, NY. Office of Public Information. – 1990
About two-thirds of the 963 million people in the world who cannot read and write are women, according to the United Nations. Women who are illiterate cannot pass on literacy skills to their children. The United Nations proclaimed 1990 International Literacy Year and conducted conferences for literacy. Education for women and girls was designated…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Daniell, Beth – 2003
Private and personal literacy practices of reading and writing, which have typically been regarded as less important than the more visible and public literacies used by men, are important in the lives of women because they aid the development and empowerment of the self. Qualitative interviews were conducted with six women of diverse socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Alcohol Abuse, Cooperative Learning, Discussion Groups
Download full textMedel-Anonuevo, Carolyn, Ed. – 1997
This publication puts together the written contributions of 20 women at an international seminar-workshop on "Promoting the Empowerment of Women through Adult Learning" who shared, reflected, and analyzed the different types of educational opportunities for women provided to women. The presentations are as follows: "Designing the Model: A Process…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Citizen Participation
Wildemeersch, Danny, Ed.; Finger, Matthias, Ed.; Jansen, Theo, Ed. – 2000
In this book, 16 authors from Europe, Africa, and the United States reflect on the transformations that are currently taking place in the field of adult and continuing education. The 12 chapters are "Reconciling the Irreconcilable? Adult and Continuing Education Between Personal Development, Corporate Concerns, and Public Responsibility"…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Citizenship Education
Sheared, Vanessa, Ed.; Sissel, Peggy A., Ed. – 2001
This book represents the beginning dialogue and critique of social, political, economic, and historical forms of hegemony operating in the adult education field. Twenty-three chapters are grouped into five sections. Section I, Deconstructing Exclusion and Inclusion in Adult Education, offers a dialogue on hegemony and critiques the philosophical,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Gladden, Karen; Rivera, Karen; Russell, Sherry – 2000
This book uses poetry and essays to share how welfare reform has affected the lives of a group of female adult literacy students from western Massachusetts. After a brief explanation of the book's purpose, the women who presented their views in the book's poems and essays are profiled. Presented next are six poems that several of the women wrote…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
