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Download full textLeef, Carol; Riddle, Tamara – 1996
This manual was developed as a guide for setting up a workplace education program. Based on the Workplace Education Project (WEP) in Peterborough, Ontario, the manual contains nine chapters that provide details of the WEP and suggestions for implementing the process in other locations. The first chapter provides a rationale for a WEP program, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Continuing Education
Anderson, Jean E. – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. During the project, staff were hired, equipment was ordered and installed, literacy task analyses were…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Burkhart, Jennifer; Sullivan, Mark – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. This document consists of two modules for the mathematics (computation) classes of the program. The first…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Burkhart, Jennifer – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. This document consists of three modules for the problem-solving and computer learning systems classes of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Burkhart, Jennifer; Sullivan, Mark – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. This document consists of two modules for the reading and language instruction classes of the program.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Sabatini, John P. – 2001
An analysis was conducted of the results of a formative evaluation of the LiteracyLink "Workplace Essential Skills" (WES) learning system conducted in the fall of 1998. (The WES learning system is a multimedia learning system integrating text, sound, graphics, animation, video, and images in a computer system and includes a videotape series, a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Computer Software
Luke, Carmen – 1997
This booklet, which was written for adult literacy practitioners in Australia, examines some key issues currently being raised about new information technologies and technological literacy. The following are among the topics discussed in the booklet's nine sections: innovation and dissemination (effects of videocassette recorders, computers, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
Campbell, Pat, Ed.; Burnaby, Barbara, Ed. – 2001
Participatory education is a collective effort in which the participants are committed to building a just society through individual and socieoeconomic transformation and to ending domination through changing power relations. This book describes participatory practices in many environments, including educational and penal institutions,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Citizen Participation
Palfreeman, Annabel, Ed. – 1996
These proceedings contain the following papers: "Linking Industry Training with Language and Literacy" (Cassandra Parkinson); "Numeracy: Essential and a Priority? An ANT's (Adult Numeracy Teacher's) Journey" (Dave Tout); "Teaching, Learning and Assessment: An Essential Symbiosis" (David Clarke); "The Politics of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Coordination
Burkhart, Jennifer; Sullivan, Mark – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. This document consists of two modules for the communication skills classes of the program. The first…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13, Lancaster, PA. – 1983
This teacher's guide is designed for use in helping adult basic education (ABE) students to develop beginning language skills. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: occupational knowledge, consumer economics, health and safety, government and law, and community resources. Each unit contains some or all of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives
Reubens, Beatrice G. – 1986
No single system or model of adult education and training describes the actual situation in the countries of Western Europe. Considerable variability exists from nation to nation in regard to scope, characteristics, organization, and financing. The countries, however, share an interest in the deliberate expansion of all phases of adult education.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Adult Educators
Sutherland, Kenton, Ed. – 1977
This volume of CATESOL (California Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Occasional Papers includes the following: "ESL Adult Literacy," by Jack Wigfield; "Language Teaching as a Means to Self Knowledge, Self Acceptance, and Communication with Others," by Beverly Galyean; "Let Your Students Be Actors: Using Videotape…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education
Ntiri, Daphne W., Ed. – 1999
This monograph deals with some issues of how adults learn and ways to enhance teaching, thereby increasing adults' learning gains. The issues are the gaps between theory and practice, participation and retention, and methods and strategies, and the perennial debate about literacy's multiple meanings and their implications. "Participation and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Padak, Nancy; Rasinski, Tim; Mraz, Maryann – 2002
The National Reading Panel (NRP) reviewed quantitative reading research focusing on grades K-3 to identify methods leading to reading success. The following areas were identified as key areas in the process of beginning to read: (1) phonemic awareness; (2) phonics; (3) fluency; (4) vocabulary; and (5) comprehension. The research findings were…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Beginning Reading
