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    The training and functions of full-time and professional adult educators in Tanzania: a case study of graduates of the diploma course in adult education of the University of Dar es Salaam
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 1973) Kassam, Yusuph O.
    The main purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of duties and functions of a new and emerging cadre of professional adult educators in Tanzania who had attended the Diploma Course in Adult Education of the University of Dar es Salaam. The professional adult educators examined in this study totaled 52, comprising the total population of all the ex-students of the second and third Diploma course in Adult Education during the 1970/71 and 1971/72 academic years respectively. The data were collected through a mailed questionnaire; through interview with the respondents in their respective places of work; and through documents and records made available by the respondents. The first part of this study which is in the form of a descriptive survey shows that all the respondents were involved with the function of planning and administering adult education programmes. The pattern of functions varied with the respective nature of the different jobs of these adult educators. As to the problems faced by the respondents in carrying out their various functions, lack of adequate transport and shortage of teaching materials and stationery were the major ones affecting the majority. The second part of this study was in the form of an evaluative survey showing: (I) the relationship between the respondents functions in the field and the subjects of the Diploma Course (ii) the amount of stress that each of the subjects was given in the Diploma course in relation to their functions in the field. Four of the twelve subjects were assessed by the respondents as being almost “very useful” while nine of the subjects were rated as having been “adequately stressed.” The skill of audiovisual methods was the least used by the majority. The third part of the study is also in the form of an evaluative survey on the extent to which some of the skills or procedures in programme planning are used by the respondents. Data has shown that only about 57% were actively engaged in identifying needs in adult education and only about 37% evaluated their programmes using different methods.