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Download full textCassara, Beverly Benner – 1995
The international area has grown as a field of graduate research in the past 20 years. Graduate students in adult education need to become more involved in international research both to stay viable as scholars and to be able to effect positive change in the lives of people in developing countries. The four main priorities in research in adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developing Nations, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
Cassara, Beverly Benner – 1993
The profession of adult education provides many excellent opportunities to enhance global understanding. One way for adult educators to become involved in international activities is through the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE). As a federation of adult education organizations that are organized in seven regions throughout the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Global Approach, Institutional Mission
Cassara, Beverly Benner – 1990
International adult education can be defined as training and development of insights and values for the purpose of professional action. The frame of reference for international adult education is international understanding. Adult educators can help their students understand why they need to become literate as they examine literacy efforts in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs
Cassara, Beverly Benner – 1987
In large and small countries alike, adult educators can no longer be content with educating adults as though they live in a vacuum but must instead become international adult educators to some extent. This is not to say that adult educators must teach an international subject every day. What it does mean is that they must make international…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Cassara, Beverly Benner – 1990
The International Taskforce on Literacy, which is composed of nongovernmental organizations, has carried the literacy message to people everywhere. Two particularly noteworthy activities of the Taskforce are the People's Launch of International Literacy Year at the International Council for Adult Education conference in Thailand in January 1990…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
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
