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Considering Who Has Opportunities For Training And Advancement, 21cleo Research Team
Considering Who Has Opportunities For Training And Advancement, 21cleo Research Team
21CLEO Research Project Blog Posts
The three working learners featured in this blog post represent contrasting experiences that help us to understand the level and quality of support from such mediators as has become evident in our research, and the resu Its on the careers of these learners. Al I names used are pseudonyms.
Naomi: Learning For Future Possibilities, 21cleo Research Team
Naomi: Learning For Future Possibilities, 21cleo Research Team
21CLEO Research Project Blog Posts
We've published 5 blog posts that present different personas of working learners. These personas are drawn from our interviews with frontline worker learners across the country who are participating in employer-supported learning opportunities. The personas characterize aspects of a set of real people - capturing and blending them in order to create one story that illustrates a broader representation of a participant in an employer-supported educational program or course.
21st Century Learning Ecosystem For Working Learners, Kathy Harris, Jen Vanek,, Jill Castek, Gloria Jacobs
21st Century Learning Ecosystem For Working Learners, Kathy Harris, Jen Vanek,, Jill Castek, Gloria Jacobs
21CLEO Presentations and Publications
- What are the experiences of working learners in employer sponsored learning?
- What motivates frontline service workers to participate in employer sponsored learning opportunities, many of which are offered online?
- What factors support working learners’ continued participation and their success?
Equity Journey To Crt, 21cleo Research Team
Equity Journey To Crt, 21cleo Research Team
21CLEO Research Project Blog Posts
By thinking about racism and all social justice work as a systemic issue rather than a set of individual actions, we are led to question the underlying structures that may be undermining working learners' success despite the best efforts of all involved. Adopting the lens of CRT in our work is meant to provoke change and prompt healing. It has caused us to question our role as researchers and our place as educators in the social justice movement. It has challenged us to move out of the safety of academia and to think of our research as social action. The …
So, Why Persona?, 21cleo Research Team
So, Why Persona?, 21cleo Research Team
21CLEO Research Project Blog Posts
A colleague asked us a thoughtful and compelling question - why did we create the personas and how do these personas help employers, human resources staff, people working in workforce education, and those in adult education? We wrote this blog post to address those questions.
Dani: Front-Line Supervisor Paid Hourly Seeking Certification For Advancement, 21cleo Research Team
Dani: Front-Line Supervisor Paid Hourly Seeking Certification For Advancement, 21cleo Research Team
21CLEO Research Project Blog Posts
In our final two blog posts we offer personas based on people who are working to earn a degree or certificate, including Regina: Healthcare worker seeking to establish a career and, here in our final persona to date, Dani, an hourly frontline supervisor who wants to earn a certificate and advance her career.
Rewilding Language Education: Emergent Assemblages And Entangled Actions, Steven L. Thorne, John Hellermann, Teppo Jakonen
Rewilding Language Education: Emergent Assemblages And Entangled Actions, Steven L. Thorne, John Hellermann, Teppo Jakonen
Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations
Integrating concepts and techniques from ethnomethodology and sociomaterialism, this article investigates the observable material processes involving human action and place-based contexts of language use enabled by locative media. The focal pedagogical intervention utilized mobile augmented reality (AR) activities, the development of which was inspired by research on learning ‘in the wild.’ Applying the principle of reverse engineering, we introduce a pedagogical approach termed ‘rewilding’ for its emphasis on designing supportive conditions for goal-directed interaction outside of classrooms. Three instances of AR materials use are presented from an out-of-class activity associated with university-level language courses involving a quest-type AR game called …
Regina: Healthcare Worker Seeking To Establish A Career, 21cleo Research Team
Regina: Healthcare Worker Seeking To Establish A Career, 21cleo Research Team
21CLEO Research Project Blog Posts
In this post, we share our fourth persona, this one based on people who are working to earn a degree or certificate.
Elise: Juggling Work, Required Training, And Long-Term Goals, 21cleo Research Team
Elise: Juggling Work, Required Training, And Long-Term Goals, 21cleo Research Team
21CLEO Research Project Blog Posts
In past posts we talked about how we are using persona as a research tool and our process for creating personas. In our last post we described Neberu, who is working to feel comfortable interacting with English speakers. In the next several posts we will continue to present the personas we have created.
Neberu: Working To Feel Comfortable Interacting With English Speakers, 21cleo Research Team
Neberu: Working To Feel Comfortable Interacting With English Speakers, 21cleo Research Team
21CLEO Research Project Blog Posts
In the next several biogs we will continue to present the personas we have created based on our interviews with working learners.
Alimayu: College-Educated Retail Worker Learning English, 21cleo Research Team
Alimayu: College-Educated Retail Worker Learning English, 21cleo Research Team
21CLEO Research Project Blog Posts
In past blogs we talked about how we are using persona as a research tool and our process for creating personas. In the next several biogs we will present the personas we have created based on our interviews with working learners.