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D Intellectual Resistance As Impetus For Lifelong Learning For Social Justice, Kristopher Wells
D Intellectual Resistance As Impetus For Lifelong Learning For Social Justice, Kristopher Wells
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper employs critical social learning perspectives to investigate the themes of emotional resilience, intellectual resistance, and lifelong learning evident in the experiences of three gay male young adults whom I situate as activist-educators. I discuss how these young adults integrate emotional labour and social learning into resistance work to create counterpublics, which lay challenge to exclusionary heteronormative educational spaces.
Migrant Workers, Grassroots Transnationalism, And Agency In Learning, Romee Lee
Migrant Workers, Grassroots Transnationalism, And Agency In Learning, Romee Lee
Adult Education Research Conference
A new approach to the lifelong learning paradigm is required to include transnational learners. This research shows that migrant workers, who by definition belong to multiple communities, seek learning experiences to sustain and enhance capabilities as contemporary workers. This is the case for why global non-elites form transnational agency with learning priorities.
Towards A New Model Of Work Based Learning In Health And Social Care, Pamela M. Irwin
Towards A New Model Of Work Based Learning In Health And Social Care, Pamela M. Irwin
Adult Education Research Conference
Wenger’s (1998) conception of social participation as a process of learning is the most difficult, yet essential, characteristic of health related work based learning programmes to capture. Informed by a socio-cultural perspective, this integrative model of work based learning applies to any participant at any level in any work context.
Intuiting, Socializing And Playing Around: Women’S Stories Of Informal Learning In The Information Technology Field, Shauna Butterwick, Kaela Jubas, Hong Zhu, Jen Liptrot
Intuiting, Socializing And Playing Around: Women’S Stories Of Informal Learning In The Information Technology Field, Shauna Butterwick, Kaela Jubas, Hong Zhu, Jen Liptrot
Adult Education Research Conference
This report is based on a study of the informal and alternative approaches to learning of women who are working in the rapidly expanding and changing IT field. Using their intuition, borrowing and sharing expertise, and through trial and error, study participants describe essential forms of learning often unacknowledged by both workers and employers