Adulteduc

The History of Adult Education

By AntHash
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    History of Adult Education

  • The American Civil War Begins

    The Civil War begins and there is increasing pressure to educate Black adults and children (not just freed Blacks).

  • The Morrill Land Grant College Act

    This act allowed colleges to recieve land from the federal governement to build post secondary educational buildings. These colleges taught agricultural, technical, and mechanical subjects. Mixed with core curriculum, this grant allowed schools to expand on what was deemed "useful" knowledge.

  • The Chautauqua Insitution

    The Chautauqua Instiution was founded in 1874. It was originally founded as training for Sunday School teachers but later broadened its offerings as a means of adult education.

  • Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC)

    http://ciweb.org/about-us/about-chautauqua/our-history

  • The Hull House

    In 1889, Jane Addams and her friend, Ellen Gates Starr, founded Hull House, a settlement house, in a large home in Chicago. At the beginning, Hull House offered day care services, libraries, classes, and an employment bureau. By its second year alone, it served over two thousand people per week. By 1900, Hull House included a gymnasium, cooperative housing for working women, meeting space for trade union groups, and a pool.

  • NYC Free Lectures Program

    This program gave adult education a name. The subway platform-like lectures provided more contact with the masses. Initial appropriation in 1904 but unsure of the exact date.

  • The National Safety Council

    The council was organized to bring safety education to the industrial movement all across the country.

  • Women's Suffrage

    The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified on this date granting women the right to vote.

  • Workers Education Bureau

    The Bureau is founded to ensure that American workers are educated citizens.

  • Federal Department of Adult Education was created

    The National Education Association created its Department of Adult Education to educate immigrants. The Department eventually broadens its scope to include other areas of study.

  • The American Association for Adult Education

    The American Association for Adult Education was founded on this date.

  • Edward C. Lindeman

    The Meaning of Adult Education is published.

  • Highland Research & Education Center is Founded

    Highland is instrumental in the education and activities of worker's education. Highland would later focus on civil rights in the 1950's.

  • The Federal Emergency Relief Administrations

    Founding date. Federal programs to provide adult education opportunities as relief from the Great Depression.

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA)

    Federal program to provide jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression. Initial approrpriation in 1935 but I'm unsure of the exact date.

  • John Dewey

    John Dewey publishes "Freedom and Culture". This is just one of his many books (including "Democracy and Education").

  • The GI Bill is Passed

    The GI Bill provided federal funds to military service members. It also allowed for many to continue their education after the military.

  • The Adult Education Association was Formed

    The Adult Education Association was formed on the premise that the purpose of adult education was to make social change.

  • The Library Services Act of 1958

    The federal government extends services to public libraries. Library informaion systems studies made an impact on Adult Education by providing non-formal opportunties for learning.

  • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed

    SNCC was organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1960. The SCLC organized schools and training programs in which teachers not only learned how to teach people how to read and write but also how to protest and challenge the local power structure.

  • The Higher Education Act of 1965

    The Higher Education Act results in Pell Grants and Stafford Loans for students to go to school.

  • The Adult Education Act of 1965

    The law was part of President Johnson's Great Society Program. LBJ saw education as an economic development machinism and the Act provided funds for adult learners.

  • Malcolm Knowles

    Malcolm Knowles published "The Modern Practice of Adult Education: Andragogy vs Pedagony".

  • Adult Learning Theory - Malcolm Knowles

    Andragogy

  • Elderhostel

    Elderhostel was founded by Marty Knowlton & David Bianco as a way to combine education with travel for people between 50-80 years in age. This occured in 1975. I'm unsure of the exact date.

  • The US Department of Education was Created

  • The National Literacy Act and the Adult Education Act are fused together by Congress

    https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/102/hr751

  • Workforce Investment Act

    The Adult Education Act is repealed and replaced by the Workforce Investment Act.

  • President Obama State of the Union Speech

    President Obama proposes free community college for adults in the State of the Union speech.