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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Way, Wendy L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter presents an ecological model that highlights the importance of considering multiple contextual influences on behavior as well as other factors that may impact learning when designing research and practice aimed at enhancing financial capability.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Money Management, Adult Learning, Educational Practices
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Jarecke, Jodi; Taylor, Edward W.; Hira, Tahira K. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
Exploring the pedagogical approaches of four women's financial literacy education programs, this chapter provides an overview of trends and needs in financial education for women and offers pedagogical strategies for teaching women about finance.
Descriptors: Womens Education, Money Management, Financial Services, Adult Education
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Buckland, Jerry – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter considers how the phenomenon of financial exclusion affects adult learning in the area of financial literacy.
Descriptors: Money Management, Barriers, Adult Learning, Andragogy
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Robles, Bárbara J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter focuses on the importance of approaching economic education pedagogy as a whole-family learning process, especially in high immigrant and culturally diverse neighborhoods.
Descriptors: Money Management, Ethnic Diversity, Culturally Relevant Education, Family Literacy
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Vitt, Lois A. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter discusses shifts in hiring and benefits that changed the employment landscape, offering a historical look at workplace financial education, and arguing that educating employees to adjust to new financial realities is a win-win for employers and employees.
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Financial Services, Employment Practices, Money Management
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Collins, J. Michael; Holden, Karen C. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter addresses financial education across the lifespan, which has the potential to enhance adult financial capability, yet methodological barriers and a lack of robust measures have hampered the ability to identify and measure the effects of educational programs on financial decisions and behavior.
Descriptors: Community Education, Money Management, Lifelong Learning, Program Effectiveness
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English, Leona M. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter critically examines financial literacy education, asking what its assumptions are and what adult educators need to ask of its curriculum, its bases, and the people being taught to be financially literate.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Money Management, Financial Services, Educational Objectives
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Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter discusses some of the assumptions of financial education, and then considers the role of emotions, beliefs, and attitudes in culturally responsive financial education practice.
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Practices, Attitudes, Influences
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Wyn, Johanna – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter provides an overview of theories of the transition to young adulthood. It sets out the argument for conceptual renewal and discusses some implications of new patterns of transition for adult education.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Young Adults, Transitional Programs, Educational Theories
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Drayton, Brendaly – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter discusses the influence of cultural identity and social conditions on the transition to adulthood in a stratified, multicultural context.
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Social Influences
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Xie, Rongbing; Sen, Bisakha; Foster, E. Michael – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter focuses on vulnerable youth, the challenges they face during their transitions to adulthood, and the adverse effects of limited support systems on those transitions. The authors offer recommendations on how adult educators can help facilitate smooth transitions into adulthood for vulnerable youth.
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, At Risk Students, Youth Opportunities, Barriers
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Lester, Jessica Nina – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter focuses on the transitional experiences of youth with dis/ability labels and highlights how a critical orientation to dis/ability can inform adult educators.
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Young Adults, Disabilities, Youth Opportunities
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Frye, Steven B. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter describes developmental needs of emerging young adults and how they are often met, or not met, in faith communities. The author offers recommendations for creating better connections with today's emerging young adults.
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Needs Assessment, Need Gratification, Religious Organizations
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Davis, C. Amelia – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter considers how transitions to adulthood have been historically represented and presents alternative ways of thinking about transitions to adulthood through the context of adult basic education programs.
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Youth Opportunities, Transitional Programs, Adult Basic Education
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Olson, Joann S. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter frames the transition to adulthood in the context of the moving from formal educational settings to the often less-structured learning that occurs in workplace settings. Although schooling may end, learning continues.
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Education Work Relationship, Workplace Learning, Adult Education
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