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Cassara, Beverly Benner – 1990
Women in development refers to the needs and problems of women in developing countries and the responsibility of industrialized countries to ensure that aid programs serve the best interests of these women. A concern of adult educators is the relationship between adult education and the challenges facing women in the development of their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Cuellar, Sylvia – 1991
The Texas Agricultural Extension Service (TAEX) Literacy Initiative has three major components: literacy awareness, cooperation and coordination with other state agencies and organizations, and programmatic responses. During 1991, the TAEX Literacy Initiative addressed the literacy awareness component through these activities: writing a research…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation, Coordination
Klees, Steve; Matangala, Anisio; Spronk, Barbara; Visser, Jan – 1997
This report was prepared in the framework of Mozambique's concern to respond to the needs of large numbers of unreached learners and to attend, in an integrated fashion, to a growing diversity of learning needs. As step 1 of a three-phase process assisted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO's)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Development, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
Cuellar, Sylvia; Owens, Peggy – 1991
This document chronicles the events that took place and materials that were developed to assist the Texas Agricultural Extension Service faculty in its literacy program. Section I on program development includes minutes of the literacy task force and the literacy initiative team that describe how the literacy program was conceived and evolved; a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Church Programs
Duncan, James A., Ed.; Flores, Thomas C., Ed. – 1967
Case studies presented by graduate students from the United States and seven other nations dealt with topics in extension education. A system analysis approach to the problems in organizing extension services in developing nations was described, as well as physical and sociocultural problems (including illiteracy) which hinder audiovisual…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agency Cooperation, Audiovisual Aids, Case Studies
VERNER, COOLIE, ED. – 1964
PREPARED UNDER THE SPECIAL EDITORSHIP OF COOLIE VERNER, THIS JOURNAL ISSUE REVIEWS THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT OF ADULT EDUCATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA FROM THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT, TRACES THE GROWTH OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DURING THE PERIOD 1915-63, DISCUSSES RECENT TRENDS AND ACTIVITIES IN VOCATIONAL AND NONVOCATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Enrollment Trends, Extension Education