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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
This booklet, which was produced as a follow-up to the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, examines literacy and learning strategies. After a brief overview of the workshop from which the booklet emerged, the new convivial approaches to literacy that are being developed through experimentation in many developing countries are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Spatig, Linda; Parrott, Laurel; Carter, Carolyn; Kusimo, Patricia; Keyes, Marian – 1998
This paper chronicles the experiences of nine adolescent girls who participated in a 3-year science, mathematics, and technology program for Appalachian girls. The girls lived in two West Virginia communities (one rural, one urban). Most of the girls were poor; six were African American. Descriptions of the girls' neighborhoods and local…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aspiration, Blacks, Community Influence
Neugebauer, Bonnie; Duffy, Roslyn; Garbarino, James; Gonzalez-Mena, Janet – Child Care Information Exchange, 2001
Presents four articles about children's power struggles: (1) "The Personal Side of Power" (Bonnie Neugebauer); (2) "Learning To Harness Human Power" (Roslyn Duffy); (3) "Power Struggles: Early Experiences Matter" (James Garbarino); and (4) "Personal Power: Creating New Realities" (Janet Gonzalez-Mena). (DLH)
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitudes, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Training
Dutton, Donald G.; Nicholls, Tonia L.; Spidel, Alicia – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2005
A review is made of female intimate abuse. It is concluded that females are as abusive as males in intimate relationships according to survey and epidemiological studies. This is especially so for younger "cohort" community samples followed longitudinally. Predictors of intimate violence with women appear to be similar to those of men; including…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Alcohol Abuse, Intimacy, Females
Levine, David P. – History of Education Quarterly, 2004
This essay focuses on the formative years of the Citizenship Training Program as a Highlander project in the Charleston area. Informally known as Citizenship Schools, this adult education program began in 1958 under the sponsorship of Tennessee's Highlander Folk School, which handed over to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Literacy Education, Freedom, Adult Education
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth – 1996
In this collection of essays, a Native American feminist intellectual, poet, and literary scholar grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in academia. The essays examine and criticize the enormous impact of America's media culture and ask questions about who is telling Native peoples' stories, where cultural authority lies, and…
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indian Literature, American Indian Studies, American Indians
Nguyen, Thi Van; Vu, Van Duc – 1994
This paper discusses initiatives of the Vietnamese government to address the educational and training needs of the working population, particularly women. Since 1986, the Vietnamese government has initiated efforts to develop a multisectoral, market-oriented economy. Education and training are considered to be essential for promoting long-term…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Distance Education, Educational Development
Horton, Myles; And Others – 1990
In 1932, Myles Horton founded the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. Horton created an adult education center dedicated to helping groups of primarily poor and uneducated people strive together to solve their social, economic, and political problems and conflicts by mining their own experiences and awareness. In this book, Horton…
Descriptors: Activism, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Autobiographies
McWhirter, Ellen Hawley – 1994
Counseling for empowerment is a complex and multifaceted process that requires, for some, a radical departure from the traditional conceptualization of the helper's role. The process of empowerment demands that professional helpers and their clients take an active, collaborative approach to identifying problems and goals. Drawing from counseling,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Counseling, Counseling Techniques
Mauch, Werner, Ed.; Papen, Uta, Ed. – 1997
This book highlights examples of innovative educational practices in the field of organized adult learning. Fifteen chapters present outcomes of collective research in the Innovations in Nonformal and Adult Education (INNAE) project. "Common Learning--Collective Research: Innovating Adult Education" (Werner Mauch, Uta Papen) describes the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY. – 1989
This report examines the condition of America's young adolescents and how well middle grade schools, health institutions, and community organizations serve them. In its plan for action, the Task Force on Education of Young Adolescents of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development makes recommendations for new structures for middle grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Core Curriculum, Educational Change
Chacoff, Ana – 1989
There are approximately 170 indigenous languages spoken in Brazil, by a population of about 200,000. Language policy regarding these communities has not been well defined or explicit. Through several changes of constitution, only Portuguese has been considered the national and official language. Only recently has the government begun to develop a…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Educational History
Kovel-Jarboe, Patricia – 1987
This paper summarizes the 16 projects that have been funded by the Minnesota Extension Service to demonstrate innovative and effective uses of technology in adult education. Several of the projects are described in detail. Actual and anticipated impacts are examined, and suggested strategies that others can apply to reach and empower rural adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Closed Circuit Television
O Fathaigh, Mairtin – 1997
University College Cork (UCC) and excluded/disadvantaged communities on Cork's Northside undertook a partnership project. The partnership process exposed real divisions and differences among the partners and stakeholders on the link between participation and partnership and on the continuum of issues ranging from the more traditionalist model of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Community Education, Community Programs
Hudson, Frederic M. – 1999
This book identifies skills and competencies that can empower adults throughout the life cycle. Part 1 focuses on the emerging adult. Chapter 1 contrasts new opportunities for adult living with the negative belief that the United States' best days are behind. Chapter 2 makes a case for a cyclical pattern for understanding adult life. Part 2…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adults (30 to 45), Aging (Individuals)