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Exploring The Impact Of Social Networking Sites On Adult Education, Bhumika Suresh Upadhyay
Exploring The Impact Of Social Networking Sites On Adult Education, Bhumika Suresh Upadhyay
Major Papers
Social Networking Sites (SNS) are rapidly taking over people’s personal as well as professional lives, globally. It has not only changed the way masses communicate and express but is also transforming the way learning is looked at. Though considered as inherently personal spaces, these sites are now proving to be professional spaces to learn; used by millions of consumers and validated by field experts and mentors. Although there is some amount of research done on the effects social network platforms have on school education, the way it is moulding adult education is yet to be fully investigated. Adult education is …
Conversations About Education: Professional Development Through A Multi-Epistemic Lens, Roland Karen, Julia Colella, Blessing Igbokwe
Conversations About Education: Professional Development Through A Multi-Epistemic Lens, Roland Karen, Julia Colella, Blessing Igbokwe
Education Publications
This study involves the program evaluation of the Conversations About Education pilot, developed as a community collaboration to offer professional development involving participants from a Faculty of Education, local school partners, and community organizations offering programming to Newcomers to Canada. The program sought to provide a collective forum where educational issues could be examined and discussed through a multi-epistemic lens. During the program events participants were encouraged to share their personal perspectives of the classroom experience, and together discuss the implications that lived/life experience has on confronting bias in teaching. The evaluation of the pilot program employed a qualitative approach …