ADULT EDUCATION Introduction 1. Adult education is the process to provide education to the adult and aged people who‚ somehow‚ had failed to receive the elementary education during their childhood. The effort of providing adult education has been in existence for the past several years‚ as it is one of the most important things in building an educated nation. Unless the adults realize the importance of education they would never understand the need to educate their progeny. Education is one of
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Equality in Education Ch.2 of Bryan Wilson‚ ed.‚ Education‚ Equality and Society‚ London‚ 1975‚ pp.39-61. I To speak of equality in education is rather like speaking of equality in love. Young men sometimes wax indignant about the unfairness of their lot‚ and say there ought to be arrangements whereby the available girls should be shared out equally‚ so that everyone should get his whack; or‚ more sophisticatedly‚ that the most desirable girls should be made to bestow their favours on egalitarian
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persuade my audience to think about education reform and to inspire them to enact changes in our education system. Central Idea: While education reform has been around since the inception of formal education‚ the past 30 years have seen many changes that are at the very least counter-productive to effective learning for children and teaching for educators and at worst‚ devastating to the moral of children and their enjoyment of the learning process. Real education reform would take into account that
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CONTINUING EDUCATION Continuing education (called further education in the United Kingdom and Ireland) is an all-encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada. Recognized forms of post-secondary learning activities within the domain include: degree credit courses by non-traditional students‚ non-degree career training‚ workforce training‚ formal personal enrichment courses (both on-campus and
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Tiffany Nelson ENGL 223 11 December 2013 The Freedom of Education The movie Freedom Writers‚ directed by Richard LaGravenese‚ shows the power of teaching‚ and Freedom Writers is a perfect example of a teacher who changes the lives of her students. The teacher in the movie‚ Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank)‚ is the central character and is portrayed by the director as a confident Caucasian woman who is eager to teach for the first time. Gruwell changes the lives of her students in the movie Freedom
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Education is the process for learning basic life skills‚ to get children to socially interact with others and to enable people to get good qualifications so they can gain better careers. Functionalists offer an optimistic analysis of the role of education and they maintain that education and training performs a positive function. However Marxist theorists offer a pessimistic analysis of the role of education. They argue that schools do not serve the interests of everyone in society‚ but a ruling
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What is Nonformal Education? Arlen Etllng. Assistant Professor The Pennsylvania State University Can you list specific differences between forma1 and nonformal education? Is informal education the same as nonformal education? Why do some agricultural educators spell nonformal with a hyphen (non-formal) while others do not? Are these questions really pertinent to the profession? I believe that these are important questions. I believe that agricultural educators do a disservice to the profession when
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Effective Sex Education Each year‚ U.S. teens experience as many as 850‚000 pregnancies‚ and youth under age 25 experience about 9.1 million sexually transmitted infections (STIs).1‚2 By age 18‚ 70 percent of U.S. females and 62 percent of U.S. males have initiated vaginal sex.3 Comprehensive sex education is effective at assisting young people to make healthy decisions about sex and to adopt healthy sexual behaviors.4‚5‚6‚7 No abstinence-only-until-marriage program has been shown to help teens delay
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Course Code Course Title EDU 111 Foundations of Education Dr. F. Umar (Developer/Writer) – BUK Dr. M.E. Aina (Programme Leader) – NOUN Course Team NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA 1 National Open University of Nigeria Headquarters 14/16 Ahmadu Bello Way Victoria Island Lagos Abuja Office No. 5 Dar es Salaam Street Off Aminu Kano Crescent Wuse II‚ Abuja Nigeria e-mail: centralinfo@nou.edu.ng URL: www.nou.edu.ng Published By: National Open University of Nigeria First Printed 2004 ISBN: 978-058-312-2
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On 12 April 2012‚ in its historical decision the Supreme Court (SC) of India threw its weight behind the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act‚ 2009. The court upheld the constitutional validity of RTE Act that guarantees children free and compulsory education from the age of 6 to 14 years of age. The judgment makes it mandatory for the government‚ local authorities and private schools to reserve 25 percent of their seats for ‘weaker and disadvantaged sections’ of society. The
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