Abstract
The federal Adult Education programs of the Great Depression represented the response of the New Deal to unemployed teachers. Although these programs were essentially relief projects intended to take unemployed teachers off the rolls and hire them as adult educators, they resulted in: 1) establishing adult education as a legitimate field of practice with unique educational needs and methods; 2) introducing the nation to adult education theory as it then existed; and 3) teaching large numbers of adults to read for the first time.
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Recommended Citation
Ice, R.,
&
Nolan, B.
(1998).
Adult Education Programs of the New Deal: The Case of Oklahoma, 1933 - 1942.
Adult Education Research Conference.
https://newprairiepress.org/aerc/1998/papers/34
Adult Education Programs of the New Deal: The Case of Oklahoma, 1933 - 1942
The federal Adult Education programs of the Great Depression represented the response of the New Deal to unemployed teachers. Although these programs were essentially relief projects intended to take unemployed teachers off the rolls and hire them as adult educators, they resulted in: 1) establishing adult education as a legitimate field of practice with unique educational needs and methods; 2) introducing the nation to adult education theory as it then existed; and 3) teaching large numbers of adults to read for the first time.
