A. Adult Learning and Education

This section includes existing knowledge initiatives and possible knowledge transfer vehicles on adult learning and education in general. Specific initiatives and vehicles related to adult literacy are in a separate section under adult literacy.

 

1. Web sites, Databases, and Portals

Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) is a web site providing the proceedings of past conferences. See http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/CASAE (Canada)

Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education provides titles of theses and dissertations in adult education (some 30 years of theses and dissertations in some 14 universities with Adult Education graduate programs across Canada). The complete annual index for these is found in the annual fall issue of The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education beginning in 1970).
See http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/CASAE (Canada)

Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education provides comprehensive information on adult, career, and vocational education. It includes full-text research reports, adult education journals, and links to other adult learning web sites.
See http://www.cete.org/acve/ (United States)

COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development “has a mission to link academics and activists, and theory and practice, toward the goal of improving community organizing and its related crafts. The project is supported by the University of Wisconsin Department of Rural Sociology and the University of Wisconsin Extension Center for Community and Economic Development.” The web site includes hundreds of full text resources on a variety of topics related to community building, community partnerships and popular education.
See http://comm-org.wisc.edu/ (United States)

Coady International Institute, Saint Francis Xavier University has international adult education links including organizations, associations, conferences, and databases.
See http://www.stfx.ca/coady-library/aded.htm (Canada)