Current Trends in Adult Education
Contents: Preface. Contributors. I. Strategies for total literacy: 1. Education for all/K. Parthasarathy. 2. Essential pre-conditions for successful working of adult education programme/Bhalba Vibhute. 3. Adult literacy: what chance of success?/Ranjit Singh. 4. Urban adult education/S.C. Jhansi and Santosh Kumar Mishra. 5. Strategies for attaining total literacy/Shyam Atluri & Y. Bhaskaracharyulu. 6. Future strategy for eradication of illiteracy and poverty/N. Venkateswarulu. 7. Strategies for retention of literacy/Madan Singh. 8. Strategies for learning centred education: moving from Pedagogy to Heutagogy/M. Rajendra Prasad and S. Sundaram. 9. Literacy teaching in multi-lingual and multi-cultural context/R. Rajan. II. Experiences of total literacy campaigns: 10. People\'s participation in total literacy campaign: the experiences of Shanti Ashram, Coimbatore/Kalpana Raja. 11. Involvement of university students and teachers in the total literacy campaign--our experience/S. Umayaparvathi. 12. Role of youth in the Shillong city literacy drive (some learning points from the campaign)/Biloris Lyndem Laso. 13. Akshara Sankranthi programme in Chitoor district/T. Kumaraswamy, G. Stanley Jay Kumar & V. Robert Devadoss. III. Uses of literacy: 14. Literacy and peoples participation/Shyam Atluri, B.S. Vasudeva Rao. 15. Adult education--a vehicle for development/P.P. Satyanarayan Rao. 16. Total literacy campaigns and women empowerment/P. Adinarayana Reddy and D. Uma Devi. 17. Role of adult education in promotion of human rights/P.P. Satyanarayana Rao. 18. Literacy and the other development indicators: the key factors for sustainable development/P. Ch. Lakshmi Narayana and M. V.S.S. Prakasa Rao. IV. Mass media and teaching learning materials: 19. Mass media in adult education/P. Vasantha Kumari and K. Sudha Rani. 20. Mass Media in adult education/M.C. Obulesu and G. Umapathi. 21. Role of mass media in adult education: some perspectives & problems/M. Sowjanya. 22. Role of mass media in adult education: a case study of community listening and community viewing scheme of Tamil Nadu/Ananthasayanam and R. Vidya. 23. Adult literacy: the role of libraries/B.S. Vasudeva Rao. 24. Developing modules for adult learners: a peep into the procedure/Rita Chopra. 25. Teaching/learning materials for adult learners/Neo-literates/K. Sudha Rani and P. Vasantha Kumari. V. Administration of adult education programmes: 26. Adult education: the administrative imperatives/E.A. Narayana. 27. Trends in adult education administration and resource structure/M.V. Lakshmi Reddy. 28. Professionalisation of Indian adult education/S.Y. Shah. VI. Continuing education programme: 29. Continuing education: need of a wider perspective/J.P. Dubey. 30. Continuing education institutions in professional development/M.C. Reddeppa Reddy. 31. Equivalency programme--a boon to many/K. Sivadasan Pillai. 32. Open schools--a study/D. Janardhan Reddy and G. Hussain Reddy. 33. Functioning of continuing education committees a case study/P. Viswanadha Gupta. VII. Monitoring, evaluation and research: 34. Monitoring and information system in adult education a case study of Tamil Nadu/L. Raja. 35. Evaluation of literacy programme: need for experiments/J.P. Dubey. 36. Research in adult continuing education: critical assessment of the past and the strategies for the twenty first century/Rajesh. 37. Research in adult & continuing education: problems and possibilities/V. Reghu. 38. Adult education research: trends and gaps/G. Goyal and L. Gupta. VIII. Growth of literacy: 39. Progress of women\'s education/D. Pulla Rao. 40. Total literacy in Tamil Nadu challenges and strategies/L. Raja.
"Recognising the role of literacy in alround development of the individual and nation as a whole, the government of India has formulated and launched a number of schemes for the promotion of literacy among the masses. The literacy programmes are continuously improved in terms of its quality based on the past experiences and research findings. The current National Literacy Mission has given opportunity for initiation of a number of innovative ideas for eradiation of illiteracy and using the literacy in over all development. With this background, an attempt has been made to document the current trends in adult education so as to bring out the strengths of the programmes and to popularise the same among the functionaries to improve the quality of the initiatives.
The book will be useful to adult education functionaries, research scholars working in the field of adult and continuing education, extension services and other social science departments, educationists and general public as it has covered the multi-faced activities involved in the promotion of adult education at various levels." (jacket)
