The Little Theatre Movement as an Adult Education Project Among Negroes

1945 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 418
Author(s):  
Anne M. Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Education Project ◽  
Little Theatre Movement

The Colombo Plan: an East- West Adult Education Project

1958 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
Margaret Gillett ◽  
Monika Kehoe
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Education Project ◽  
Colombo Plan ◽  
East West

Adult education project — Thailand

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viboonlak Thongchua ◽  
Nonglak Phaholvech ◽  
Kanjani Jiratatprasoot
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Education Project

Drama in the Dale: Transformation Through Community Drama

2013 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Julie Ward ◽  
Helen Frances Mills ◽  
Alan Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Education Project ◽  
Personal Journey ◽  
Informal Adult Education ◽  
Professional Artists

During the winter of 2011-2012, Weardale, England, was the setting for an ambitious informal adult education project. In this rural area in the northeast part of the country, the local arts collective, Jack Drum Arts, established a community play project entitled The Bonny Moorhen. This dramatic undertaking aimed to retell the story of the infamous Battle of Stanhope, a local lead miners’ uprising. The project took place in a converted barn and involved a group of sixty learners of all ages and from all walks of life. The troupe formed the choir, band, backstage crew, and company of actors who, with the support of professional artists, built a temporary theater space. Each member of this collective made a personal journey. Here Helen Mills and Alan Anderson, in association with Julie Ward, cofounder and project producer at Jack Drum Arts, offer their personal testimonies from the project.

Understanding functional illiteracy from a policy, adult education, and cognition point of view: Towards a joint referent framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Bulajić ◽  
Miomir Despotović ◽  
Thomas Lachmann
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Functional Illiteracy ◽  
Scale Levels ◽  
Components Of Reading ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract. The article discusses the emergence of a functional literacy construct and the rediscovery of illiteracy in industrialized countries during the second half of the 20th century. It offers a short explanation of how the construct evolved over time. In addition, it explores how functional (il)literacy is conceived differently by research discourses of cognitive and neural studies, on the one hand, and by prescriptive and normative international policy documents and adult education, on the other hand. Furthermore, it analyses how literacy skills surveys such as the Level One Study (leo.) or the PIAAC may help to bridge the gap between cognitive and more practical and educational approaches to literacy, the goal being to place the functional illiteracy (FI) construct within its existing scale levels. It also sheds more light on the way in which FI can be perceived in terms of different cognitive processes and underlying components of reading. By building on the previous work of other authors and previous definitions, the article brings together different views of FI and offers a perspective for a needed operational definition of the concept, which would be an appropriate reference point for future educational, political, and scientific utilization.

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