The Women's Institutes of Great Britain and Canada have for many years been important providers of education for rural women. The author shows how the scope of this educational work has come to extend beyond rural and domestic crafts to encompass the changing needs and roles of women. (Author/CT)

The modified text of a speech given at McGill University, Montreal, May, 1972, this paper emphasizes that education is for all of life and that a learning system does exist that includes but goes far beyond the bounds of a school system, as well as a learning force coterminous with the number of active learners in society. (Author/JB)

Although most of adult learning is not formal, adult education focuses primarily on formal schooling. To help resolve the paradox, the author suggests an approach to nonformal adult education using interpersonal learning resources and natural learning. (MF)

Parallel to the primary, secondary, postsecondary, and adult/community education sectors is education not associated with formal programs--learning in arts and cultural sites. The emergence of cultural and educational tourism is an opportunity for adult/community education to define itself by extending lifelong learning opportunities into parallel…

A study of nonformal education providers in Ghana, Senegal, and Burkina Faso identified government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and for-profit organizations. Decentralization has increased nonformal education. Most projects involve multiple providers with various actors playing different roles. The lack of process-oriented projects…

Many of the programs established for women often perpetuate stereotypical roles. The most useful nonformal education programs for women should provide them with skills and knowledge related to reproductive tasks, productive work, emancipation, and empowerment. Nongovernmental voluntary organizations, especially those run by women, play a critical…

Describes the nature of participation within the context of people-centered development. Presents a framework for monitoring and evaluating participation in development, using participatory methodology. (SK)

The University of the Third Age (U3A) is subject to rapidly changing social pressures. Many of these pressures are predictable. If U3A adapts, it should remain important to future aging cohorts. (JOW)

This annotated bibliography lists and describes approximately 200 materials on the subject of non-formal education and health. Materials include books, pamphlets, journal articles, monographs, manuals, practical materials, guides, audio-cassettes, and government reports. Most of the materials were published or produced during the period 1976 to…

This document reports that Campus Alberta is emerging as a key framework under which Albertans will be able to pursue and achieve their lifelong learning goals. Campus Alberta is neither a program nor an institution, but rather a concept, a set of principles and a way in which the learning system works to deliver seamless learning opportunities…

The factors contributing to the need for educational change in the direction of lifelong learning are discussed: global phenomena (economic change and demographic trends); scientific and technological developments (obsolescence of knowledge, development of human sciences, the application of technological progress to education); and social dynamics…

Folk development colleges, modelled on the Swedish folk high schools, were started to prepare Tanzanians to develop their personalities and their capacity to think and to help them understand national policies, international affairs, further education, and ways to develop their culture. Program development and implementation are described.…

A sample of 120 Thai fruit growers reported that agricultural extension workers were influential in their adoption of integrated pest management, which balances cultural tradition and progressive practice. Extension workers used discussion and reflection on practical experience, a participatory and collaborative approach to the adoption of…

Public libraries have always served as partners in adult education through many formal and informal programs and activities. One example, the Intermountain Community Learning and Information Services project, creates a network linking rural populations with library, information, and educational services in the mountain states. (SK)