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Vocational education has many pedagogical advantages over academic education in meeting three critical conditions of excellence. The first critical condition is student involvement. Most vocational education programs ten...
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Discusses the pressures that led to the expansion of higher education services. Produces five propositions illustrating current pressures for change in higher education's mission: (1) loss of higher education's monopoly,...
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Argues that the pace of change in today's society demands that community service educators promote lifelong learning by projecting continuing education not as a product to be purchased, but as an unending, interactive, p...
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Patterns that emerged from reviewing course syllabi on adult and continuing education are discussed, and a sample syllabus is presented. These courses are offered as part of graduate level studies in the field of higher ...
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Ways that higher education can best contribute to the quality of life in the twenty-first century are discussed. While higher education is coping with an anticipated lowered demand for traditional services, new education...
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Examines six propositions that suggest changes in higher education's role: higher education institutions no longer have a monopoly on educational services; roles of education providers are blurring; higher education no l...
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Issues confronting state agencies in planning for lifelong learning are reviewed. In considering the providers of education, attention is directed to relationships within formal education structures, as well as relations...
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Reviews general education reforms since the first major study of general education in community colleges in 1952 and general education's current status. Notes general education reform projects and changes in emphasis and...
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Outlines the trends in adult education at the postsecondary level, expresses some concerns about what is happening, summarizes the implications for improving equity in adult education, and suggests policy that the federa...
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Allegorizes higher education as a superhighway, urging the redesign of the structure of higher education to meet the challenge of student diversity in the classroom. Examines trends in providing educational alternatives ...
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The work of education and information services for adults consists of collecting information about the education resources available, reaching the intended audience, and assisting clients to identify and obtain the appro...
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Lifelong learning is a movement described as real, necessary, and desirable. A major goal of higher education is seen to be the creation of an equitable learning society in which each individual is helped to become an ac...
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The future challenge facing institutions of higher education will be in providing better education for individual students rather than expanding facilities and broadening course selection. (JD)...
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This paper examines the rapidly developing trends of cooperative education and nontraditional study. The author sees these trends as an attempt to end the self-imposed isolation of higher education. The first, cooperativ...
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Maximizing each student's potential will force higher education into a new approach to learning. (PG)...