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The Future Of Learning, Robert B. Reich
The Future Of Learning, Robert B. Reich
New England Journal of Public Policy
As part of UMass Boston’s recent celebration to mark the inauguration of Chancellor Michael F. Collins, M.D., the Division of Corporate, Continuing and Distance Education (CCDE) hosted a “virtual symposium” featuring Robert B. Reich. Between April 24 and May 8, CCDE posted a streaming video and a downloadable audio file of a presentation that Professor Reich had delivered on April 11, 2006 at the national conference of the University Continuing Education Association. This talk was supplemented, on May 3, by a live teleconferencing Q&A session with Professor Reich and about fifty UMass Boston graduate students.
The Third Way To Adult Education, Judith Walker
The Third Way To Adult Education, Judith Walker
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines how Third Way politics play out in policy discourse in adult education in Canada and New Zealand. It then places these findings in the larger context of the debates on “second modernity.”
The Politics And Economics Of Globalization And Social Change In Radical Adult Education: A Critical Review Of Recent Literature, John D. Holst
The Politics And Economics Of Globalization And Social Change In Radical Adult Education: A Critical Review Of Recent Literature, John D. Holst
Adult Education Research Conference
This review analyzes perspectives on globalization within radical adult education focusing on how perspectives of the globalization process affect people’s understanding of the nature and agents of social change. It argues that new movements move us beyond the limits in current globalization perspectives.
The Trouble With Shopping: Discourses, Practices And Pedagogies Of The Consumer-Citizen, Kaela Jubas
The Trouble With Shopping: Discourses, Practices And Pedagogies Of The Consumer-Citizen, Kaela Jubas
Adult Education Research Conference
In this paper, I begin with an outline of modern citizenship and a review of feminist and other critical analyses of this concept. I then discuss the role of consumption as a marker of citizenship. The paper closes with the prospect of understanding shopping as a potential process of learning about the links between consumption, citizenship and globalization.