Adult Education Dissertation Abstracts: 1963-1967.

Overview & Synopsis

This bibliography contains citations, abstracts, and ordering information for 505 dissertations pertinent to the education or training of adults. Studies are classified by broad subject headings used in the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Education. Each section of the classification is indentified by a four digit number, with a one, two, or three digit number for each entry. (Dissertations guided by members of the Commission of Professors of Adult Education bear an asterisk.) Author, institutional, and methodological indexes are provided; evaluation studies are identified by an "i" in the last index. In terms of the number of cross references, the principal subject areas are: types of programs (24.1%), institutional sponsors (16.4%), adult education as a profession (11.9%), processes of program planning and administration (11.3%), and (with 10.6%) learning environments and instructional methods or techniques. Also represented are adult learning, education for particular clientele groups, personnel and staff development in adult education, comparative or international adult education, and (less than 1%) kinds of devices, materials, and facilities. (LY)