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  Encyclopedia topic: Adult education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults.
Another important difference is that adults frequently must apply their knowledge in some practical fashion in order to learn effectively; there must be a goal and a reasonable expectation that the new knowledge will help them further that goal.
A working adult is unlikely to have the freedom to simply quit their job and go "back to school" on a full-time basis.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ad/adult_education.htm   (354 words)

  
 Programs & Services : Adult Education & Literacy
Adult Education and Literacy Programs provide adults with educational opportunities to acquire the essential skills and knowledge to achieve career, post-secondary and life goals.
Adult education and literacy programs work with a wide range of employed and unemployed people age 16 and older.
The Department of Education and the adult education and literacy providers have adopted Equipped for the Future (EFF) as the primary framework for standards, student goalsetting, curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
www.state.vt.us /educ/new/html/pgm_adulted.html   (573 words)

  
 Adult education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One example, common in the 1990s, was the proliferation of computer training courses in which adults (not children or adolescents), most of whom were office workers, could enroll.
In the USA, the equivalent of the high school diploma earned by an adult through these programs is to pass the General Education Development (GED) test.
Another fast growing sector of adult education is English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), also referred to as English as a Second Language (ESL).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adult_education   (505 words)

  
 Malcolm Knowles, informal adult education, self-direction and andragogy
In focusing on the notion of informal education, Malcolm Knowles was pointing to the 'friendly and informal climate' in many adult learning situations, the flexibility of the process, the use of experience, and the enthusiasm and commitment of participants (including the teachers!).
He didn't define informal adult education - but uses the term to refer to the use of informal programmes and, to some extent, the learning gained from associational or club life.
He was the first to chart the rise of the adult education movement in the United States; the first to develop a statement of informal adult education practice; and the first to attempt a comprehensive theory of adult education (via the notion of andragogy).
www.infed.org /thinkers/et-knowl.htm   (4821 words)

  
 Adult Education
Concordia University's School of Adult Education is charged with carrying the mission of the University to the non-traditional adult student.
The adult student and the traditional post high school age student differ in that the former has benefited from years of life experience and then sought the academic education, while the traditional student first receives the education and then the life experience.
Adults, on the other hand, are interested in cutting right to the essence of a topic and are capable of processing greater amounts of material over much shorter periods of time.
www.cuw.edu /AdultEd_Graduate/adult_education.html   (438 words)

  
 TN Department of Labor & Workforce Development
The mission of the Statewide Tennessee Adult Education Office is consistent with the purposes stated for Title II of the Workforce Investment Act.
assist adults who are parents to obtain the educational skills necessary to become full partners in the educational development of their children; and
Knowledge/Skills Attainment: Empower individuals through education and lifelong learning to acquire skills and knowledge to succeed in the dynamic and changing Tennessee workforce.
www.state.tn.us /labor-wfd/AE   (192 words)

  
 Adult Education and Literacy Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Adult education and literacy programs are funded through federal grants to the states.
The Department's Office of Vocational and Adult Education is leading the agency's efforts to reach Americans who are involved with education programs and who may be eligible for the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit through public, electronic, and Web-based outreach.
The Adult Education Related Links include relevant organizations and centers, useful resources, and journals or periodicals pertaining to adult education and literacy.
www.ed.gov /about/offices/list/ovae/pi/AdultEd   (1009 words)

  
 PA Higher and Adult Education
Adult basic and literacy education services address the basic educational needs of 56,000 individuals and families.
The objective is to improve the literacy skills of educationally disadvantaged adults to levels of proficiency necessary to meet their needs and goals in their roles as citizens, workers, and family members.
The department, through the Secretary of Education, is authorizd to issue [these] guidelines for the operation of the community college educational and financial programs.
www.pdehighered.state.pa.us /higher/site/?g=0   (189 words)

  
 Adult Education & Basic Skills at Durham Tech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As an official GED testing center, Durham Tech offers instruction for adults who have not completed high school but who have learned from their life and work experiences.
ESL courses are open to adults whose native language is not English.
The HRD mission is "to prepare individuals for success in the workplace." Thus, the program is designed to improve the employability skills of individuals to be competitive in the ever-changing workplace.
www.durhamtech.edu /html/corporate/AdultEd.htm   (543 words)

  
 ADULT EDUCATION
Adult continuing education will be of increasing importance, as the median age of our society and the pace of change continue to increase.
This is particularly important in adult education, because of the very variety of students with many different backgrounds involved.
I do not believe that the global education problem is solvable by conventional means: the building of classrooms in remote areas, and the preparation of a vast array of teachers.
www.ics.uci.edu /~bork/ADULTEDUCATION.htm   (4862 words)

  
 KBOR - Adult Education
KBOR > Adult, Career, and Tech Ed Welcome to the Adult Education office of the Kansas Board of Regents.
Meet the the Adult Education office staff, and view the Kansas 4-year state plan for adult ed.
The Adult Education office also maintains the Kansas State Literacy Resource Center (Kansas SLRC), which is dedicated to enhancing systems, both public and private, that provide basic skills education across Kansas.
www.kansasregents.org /adult_ed   (292 words)

  
 Teachers-self-enrichment education
Many classes for adults are held in the evenings and on weekends in order to accommodate students who have a job or family responsibilities.
Employment of self-enrichment education teachers is expected to grow faster than the average for all occupations through 2014.
Retirees are one of the larger groups of participants in self enrichment education because they have more time for classes, and as the baby boomers begin to retire, demand for self enrichment education should grow.
www.bls.gov /oco/ocos064.htm   (1394 words)

  
 NPCC's Adult Education Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The curriculum is designed to prepare students for further education, enhance basic skills required for job placement or advancement, improve self-esteem of adults, and empower students to achieve their goals.
The curriculum develops skills to enable a student to earn a high school diploma, to prepare students for further education, to improve information processing skills and computational skills, to satisfy the continuing education demands of adults in the current labor market, and to empower adults to achieve their goals.
Once accepted by the adult education program, the sixteen or seventeen year old student must stay in the program until successful completion of the GED (Arkansas High School Diploma), the student’s eighteenth birthday, or the student’s return to the sending school district.
www.npcc.edu /Academics/adult_ed.htm   (442 words)

  
 KBOR - Adult Education
KBOR > Adult, Career, and Tech Ed > About Adult Ed Welcome to the Adult Education office of the Kansas Board of Regents.
Adult education programs in Kansas serve adults age 16 and over who are in need of basic skills for the workforce, community participation, and family life.
The application packet for potential English Literacy and Civics Education programs explains what funding is available to existing adult education programs to serve adults in need of ESL, citizenship skills, and competencies for functioning in today's workplace and society.
www.kansasregents.org /adult_ed/about.html   (247 words)

  
 Welcome to Adult Education
The Adult, Career and Technical Preparation Division provides lifelong educational opportunities and services to address the unique needs of individuals and communities by providing adult students with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate effectively as citizens, workers, parents and family members.
Adult Education has been a part of the Sacramento City Unified School District’s public education program since 1872, providing 131 years of service to the Sacramento community.
The adult education program has grown to include day, evening, and Saturday classes which meet the needs of the total community.
www.scusd.edu /adult_education   (122 words)

  
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 College of Education Adult Education Program
Adult Education is a field of practice, research and scholarship.
It fosters an understanding of the different ways in which adults learn and different ways they may be helped to learn.
Students of Adult Education increase their ability to teach adults, plan adult learning experiences, conduct research regarding the teaching and learning of adults, and provide leadership in a variety of positions within the field.
www.ed.psu.edu /adulted   (65 words)

  
 Adult Education
Adult education includes formal classes at schools as well as self improvement, fun and enrichment like arts, music, and wellness programs.
The Commission works to ensure that every adult in Philadelphia has the literacy skills necessary for the workforce, for parenting, and for community life.
Even Start is an adult education, parent education, and preschool program for adults who wish to earn a GED or improve their basic literacy skills.
www.mycitymyplace.com /adulted.htm   (658 words)

  
 Adult Education and Literacy
Adult Education and Literacy was previously known as Adult Basic Education.
Adult Education and Family Literacy is the official name of Title II.
Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, English as a Second Language, and Literacy.
www.state.sd.us /dol/abe   (188 words)

  
 Department of Technical and Adult Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
DTAE provides a unified system of technical education, customized business and industry training and adult education with programs that use the best available technology and offer easy access to lifelong education and training for all adult Georgians and corporate citizens.
The Office of Adult Literacy provides technical assistance to Georgia's adult literacy providers, granting state and federal funds, and monitoring and evaluating a variety of Adult Literacy and GED programs throughout the state.
The State Board of Technical and Adult Education is responsible for establishing standards, regulations and policies for the operation of the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education.
www.dtae.org   (532 words)

  
 New Haven Adult Education Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Adult Education is open to all people 16 years of age and older who are not officially enrolled in a daytime public school program.
Literacy Volunteers is a fully integrated national network of local, state, and regional literacy providers that gives adults and their families the opportunity to acquire skills to be effective in their roles as members of their families, communities, and workplaces.
Funding for these programs is derived from the Workforce Investment Act, Title II the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, the Connecticut State Department of Education and the New Haven Board of Education.
www.gwctc.commnet.edu /newhavenadulted/html/newframe.htm   (675 words)

  
 Adult Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Industrial education joined the traditional arts curriculum at Vancouver College in 1900, while a number of private schools opened to help adults learn the skills necessary for the new industries.
The colleges began to appear across the province in 1965, and within a few years had shifted from academic "junior colleges" for young adults, to broadly-based community colleges for adults of all ages.
Adult education independent of government support remained diverse, widespread, and ubiquitous, ranging from large corporate training centres to citizen's advocacy groups.
www.mala.bc.ca /homeroom/content/postsec/adulted.htm   (1881 words)

  
 Adult Education
Adult and Community Education is located at 2266 Second Street in downtown Fort Myers.
We provide a quality education to the citizens of Lee County sixteen years of age and above with special emphasis placed on those students pursuing a High School Diploma, English as a Second Language, and marketable skills for employment.
This program also supervises the community schools, which offer evening classes for both adults and students over the age of 16 for enrichment and leisure.
www.lee.k12.fl.us /dept/ace/welcome.htm   (97 words)

  
 The Math Forum - Math Library - Adult Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A forum for the discussion of major issues related to higher education and its potential to contribute to the quality of American life.
ACE maintains a domestic and an international agenda and seeks to advance the interests and goals of higher and adult education in a changing environment by providing leadership and advocacy on important issues, representing the views of the higher and adult education community to policy makers, and offering services to its members.
Numeracy is a term increasingly used in publications aimed at adult educators, yet its meaning and purpose may be unclear.
mathforum.org /library/ed_topics/adult_ed   (981 words)

  
 Math Forum: Adult Education Teachers Place
Adult numeracy activities for individuals or for teachers and students in adult education classes.
Most of the activities are mathematical in content, not only for improving math skills such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing, but also fundamental components of good mathematical thinking such as reasoning, problem-solving, communicating, and making connections, along with calculation, estimation, observation and other math skills used in our everyday lives.
ANN conducts pre-conferences at the annual NCTM national meetings; publishes the Math Practitioner Newsletter and sponsors the Numeracy List, an adult electronic forum, and obtains funding to enable adult ed math teachers, learners, and other stakeholders to participate in a national planning project for system reform.
mathforum.org /teachers/adult.ed   (334 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: Adult Education
It also features resources for practitioners, educators, and instructors and resources for learners who are interested in online and distance education and training.
"Education Center Online offers online degrees, distance learning, and continuing education program information to college and university students, as well as adults who wish to further their education." Search by school, by program or by location.
This site is divided into resources for educators and students interested in telecourses, college classes that can be taken at home by watching television programs rather than attending lectures in person.
www.ipl.org /div/subject/browse/edu55.00.00   (779 words)

  
 CVTC Adult Literacy
The environment is designed to give special attention to adults returning to school to resume educational programs which were interrupted in earlier years.
Adult learners can be found here refreshing reading, writing, and math skills to re-enter the job market after a layoff, preparing for the GED Tests to qualify for a job or educational program that requires a high school diploma to enter, learning English as their second language, or just working toward a personal educational goal.
In Cedartown and Rome, parents who need adult education classes or a GED Diploma may bring their children age birth to four to school with them for an intensive family education program which includes Adult Education, Early Childhood Education, Parent Education, and Parent and Child Together Time.
test.cvtcollege.org /adult_literacy   (490 words)

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