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Download full textMayombe, Celestin – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2017
This article outlines the results of a qualitative study, which investigated the adult non-formal education and training (NFET) centre linkages with external role-players in providing post-training support for the employment of graduates. The concern that informed this article is that adults who face long-term unemployment remain unemployed after…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Qualitative Research, Adult Education, Employment
Avoseh, Mejai, Ed.; Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2020
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. These papers are from the CIAE 2020 Virtual International…
Descriptors: Adult Education, International Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Direct linkvan der Linden, Josje; Manuel, Alzira Munguambe – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
Thirty-five years after independence the Mozambican illiteracy rate has been reduced from 93% to just over 50% according to official statistics. Although this indicates an enormous achievement in the area of education, the challenge of today still is to design appropriate adult basic education programmes including literacy, numeracy and life…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedPillai, K. Sivadasan – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1980
Gives a background on the various adult/non-formal education programs drawn up since Indian independence, and discusses the needs, aspirations, and problems supported by facts and figures. (Editor)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Nonformal Education
Peer reviewedDevin, Marianne – Australian Journal of Adult Education, 1980
A profile of the range of lifelong educational services and activities for adults in New South Wales is developed, based upon a six-part classification by degree of formality and purpose of the activity. Urban-rural differences are also discussed. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Lifelong Learning, Nonformal Education
Kleis, Russell J.; Boggs, David L. – 1972
This bibliography on continuing education is taken primarily from a more extensive bibliography. Entries consist almost entirely of non-annotated listings of books, periodicals, series publications, and Federal laws. (KM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Bibliographies, College Programs
Cross, K. Patricia; And Others – 1978
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…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Educational Resources
Commission for International Adult Education, 2012
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Religion
Peer reviewedAlikhan, Shahid – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1974
India has a long history of adult education and has evolved several interesting forms of non-formal adult education. (AG)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agricultural Education, Community Development
Spaulding, Seth – 1982
During the past 20 years, international and bilateral assistance and funding agencies have become increasingly involved in evaluation activities in adult and nonformal education, especially in developing countries. The adult education field pioneered many approaches now advocated by specialists in program and project evaluation. Beginning in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Developing Nations
PDF pending restorationGrant, Stephen; And Others – 1978
This report is a final one in a series of 17 reports concerned with costs analysis/projections of the instructional television program and the Out of School Television (OSTV) project in the Ivory Coast. It includes an introduction to the OSTV project after its first five years of existence, a description of the main elements of the in-school…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
Lenglet, Frans – 1976
The study described evaluated the reach and impact of 25 Tele Pour Tous Television for Everybody) programs on water and related issues which were broadcast by the Ivorian Out of School Television (OSTV) project in April-December 1975. This report discusses the relevance of the topic as a theme for an adult education TV program series, describes…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Programs, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedZakir, K. L. – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1975
The government-sponsored dropout rehabilitation and adult education program in Haryana is described by the head of non-formal and adult education in that district in a paper he delivered to the 1975 All-India Adult Education Conference. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Continuation Education, Developing Nations
Stambler, Moses, Ed. – 1975
The document contains information on adult education in India, consisting mainly of a collection of previously published articles from professional journals and other related communications focusing on: input factors, nonformal education, voluntary organizations, literacy, community development, urban education, worker education, Satellite…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Anthologies, Communications Satellites
Miller, Harry G.; Torricelli, James – 1978
To develop background for examining the past, present, and future of adult education in Thailand, the author initially sketches an economic and geographic profile of the country. In the second of five sections, Thailand's adult education movement is traced by examining the influences of kings, the Buddhist religion, various governments, and the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Development
