The work of Paul Emile Bergevin: Adult education pioneer

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This dissertation focuses on the life and contributions of Paul Emile Bergevin to the philosophy and practice of university based Adult Education in the United States. The introduction explains the need for adult educators to understand their history and describes reasons why Bergevin is a good subject for an analysis. I discuss biography as a form of history and continue with a brief description of the analysis that follows in the remainder of the dissertation. Chapter one traces Bergevin's life. I trace his intellectual development through his writings and actions. I illustrate how his early writings became the framework for the development of his instructional design model and of his educational philosophy. I describe his early experiences as an educational administrator and illustrate how these early experiences influenced the manner in which he developed the academic program he created at Indiana University. In my chronology of Bergevin's writings I illustrate the interconnections

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