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Download full textWonacott, Michael E. – 2000
This digest describes cultural considerations and effective approaches for limited English proficient (LEP) individuals' workforce development, including the impact of recent training legislation. LEP persons often come from both a different language background and a very different cultural background; so English-language instruction must provide…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Federal Legislation
Imel, Susan – 2000
A relevant question for educators is how adult learning and education can cultivate change with individuals and groups. M.D. Hohn (1998) identifies four types of change: change by exception, incremental change, pendulum change, and paradigm change. A change agent tries to bring about a change deliberately. The change process is transformative, is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Change
African Americans and Self-Help Education: The Missing Link in Adult Education. ERIC Digest No. 222.
Rowland, Michael L. – 2000
Self-help education and self-help literature is important in the lives of African American adults, but the basic models of learning, development, and program planning in adult education have often been developed with little concern for the unique needs of African Americans. In addition, current theories of adult learning often lack understanding…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adults, Afrocentrism
