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Creating Private Spaces To Learn Public Participation, Joanna Ashworth
Creating Private Spaces To Learn Public Participation, Joanna Ashworth
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Conceptions of private and public inform educational research and planning for labour market transitions in a small resource-based town in British Columbia. Laid-off forestry workers, women on social-assistance and underemployed youth seek inclusion in a community dialogue on educational planning, yet require support to participate.
Adult Education For A Civil Society: Starting Over, Pramila Aggarwal, Bill Fallis, Bob Luker
Adult Education For A Civil Society: Starting Over, Pramila Aggarwal, Bill Fallis, Bob Luker
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To "start over" adult educators need to reexamine the present practice of adult education and community development in Canada, as compared to our earlier ideals for the field that included the promotion of greater democracy, social equality and equitable economic opportunities for all Canadians. In this reassessment, we need to consider the broader potential of our community agencies, as sites for revitalizing our civil society.
Mapping Use Of A Self-Directed On-Line Heart Disease Education Program Onto Health Learning Outcomes: A Study Of Post-Heart Attack Learners, Meg Wise, Gi Woong Yun, Bret Shaw
Mapping Use Of A Self-Directed On-Line Heart Disease Education Program Onto Health Learning Outcomes: A Study Of Post-Heart Attack Learners, Meg Wise, Gi Woong Yun, Bret Shaw
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We correlated 25 heart patients’ changes in four behaviors to usage of behavior themes and three on-line learning activities. Information correlated negatively; communications correlated positively; and interactive planning showed a positive trend with changing behaviors. These findings challenge on-line educators to transcend information provision and offer more opportunities that integrate social interaction and planning.
Place Matters: Producing Power And Identity, Arthur L. Wilson
Place Matters: Producing Power And Identity, Arthur L. Wilson
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"Place" plays a significant role in producing power relations in continuing professional education. Where we "locate" our CPE programs influences not only their purposes and processes but also produces the identities of the participating professionals and professions as well as the power professionals and professions exercise in society.
A Gendered Edge: Auto/Biographical Research Into Doctors And Lifelong Learning In The Inner-City, Linden West
A Gendered Edge: Auto/Biographical Research Into Doctors And Lifelong Learning In The Inner-City, Linden West
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This paper considers "lifelong learning" among a group of doctors within the "male" medical profession. It explores their struggle to be effective and reflective practitioners, in a world where subjective knowledge and cultural understanding are often derided, and yet "success" may depend on the integration of medical with cultural and emotional literacy.
Beyond Coady: Adult Education And The End Of Utopian Modernism, Michael R. Welton
Beyond Coady: Adult Education And The End Of Utopian Modernism, Michael R. Welton
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Questions For The Adult Educator On A Virtual Odyssey: An Analysis Of Internet And Web-Based Learning, Sue Webb
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This paper examines the argument that lifelong learning should become increasingly dependent on education technology because this will alleviate many of the barriers to learning adults face. Lifelong learning is diverse, and so caution is needed when generalising from case specific research. The premise that new learning technologies promote social inclusion is still relatively untested.
The Deeper Layers Of Learning, Ruud Van Der Veen
The Deeper Layers Of Learning, Ruud Van Der Veen
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The literature on adult education stresses often a shift from traditional reproductive learning towards communicative learning. This paper explores a further shift in late modernity towards ideosyncratic, aesthetic learning. Is there such a shift? If so, why? And what is it exactly? How would facilitation looks like?
Practicing Citizens: Adult Stories Of Cocooning And Taking Flight, D. Ann Tunmer
Practicing Citizens: Adult Stories Of Cocooning And Taking Flight, D. Ann Tunmer
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This qualitative study concerns how a specific vehicle for social intervention programs impacts upon the civic behavior of targeted individuals. The crux of the problem is whether individuals can learn citizenship, and, if provided the skills and opportunities, will citizens utilize their knowledge to participate politically.
Spiritual Development And Commitments To Emancipatory Education In Women Adult Educators For Social Change, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Spiritual Development And Commitments To Emancipatory Education In Women Adult Educators For Social Change, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
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This paper discusses the results of a qualitative research study of the spiritual development of a multicultural group of women adult educators for social change, and its relationship to their current commitment to emancipatory adult education practice.
Adult Learning And Self Work, Mark Tennant
Adult Learning And Self Work, Mark Tennant
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The purpose of this paper is to theorize adult education as a vehicle for self change and to explore how such theorizing has consequences for practice as an adult educator.
Partners In The Transfer Of Learning: A Qualitative Study Of Workplace Literacy Programs, Maurice C. Taylor
Partners In The Transfer Of Learning: A Qualitative Study Of Workplace Literacy Programs, Maurice C. Taylor
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This study investigated the common types of transfer strategies used by the key stakeholders in 11 Canadian workplace education programs. Results indicated that the Role Time Model was a useful classification system: to understand the dimensions of a transfer partnership; to document the transfer of learning strategies and to identify the barriers influencing the transfer of learning.
The Role Of Positionality In Teaching For Critical Consciousness: Implications For Adult Education, Edward Taylor, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Mary Stone Hanley
The Role Of Positionality In Teaching For Critical Consciousness: Implications For Adult Education, Edward Taylor, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Mary Stone Hanley
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This paper examines how differences in positionality of the three co-authors (as a white man, a white woman, and an African-American woman) informs both the theorizing and the differences in practice of education for critical consciousness in adult higher education settings.
Civil Capital, Adult Education And Community Sustainability: A Theoretical Overview, Jennifer Sumner
Civil Capital, Adult Education And Community Sustainability: A Theoretical Overview, Jennifer Sumner
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As communities struggle to overcome the negative impacts of corporate globalization, they are searching for ways to maintain or achieve sustainability in an era that values economic efficiency above community life and interests. Adult educators can support communities in their search for sustainability by helping to resist corporate globalization and by building civil capital.
“Work? I Have Learned To Live With It.” A Biographical Perspective On Work, Learning And Living... ...More Than Just A Story, Veerle Stroobants, Danny Wildermeersch
“Work? I Have Learned To Live With It.” A Biographical Perspective On Work, Learning And Living... ...More Than Just A Story, Veerle Stroobants, Danny Wildermeersch
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A biographical perspective on living and learning is more than an outgrowth or continuation of current individualisation processes. Stories of women about work and life, show that the notion of biography holds possibilities to create other meaningful connections between individual and society than those nowadays judged problematic or at loss.
The Third Way And Feminist Imaginings, Joyce Stalker
The Third Way And Feminist Imaginings, Joyce Stalker
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The Third Way purports to be a new way which merges the best elements of social democracy and neo-liberalism. Although it is an extremely ambiguous concept, it clearly exhibits androcentric characteristics. Its ambiguity offers adult educators the opportunity to influence its direction and operationalisation in order to improve the dis-location of women.
Crediting Adult Learning, Bruce Spencer, Derek Briton, Winston Gereluk
Crediting Adult Learning, Bruce Spencer, Derek Briton, Winston Gereluk
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This paper reports on the uncertainties and dilemmas experienced by three researchers as they continue to explore how informal and non-formal union-sponsored learning can be translated into college and university credits.
Informal Learning In Community: The Role Of Subjectivity And Intersubjectivity, Barbara Sparks
Informal Learning In Community: The Role Of Subjectivity And Intersubjectivity, Barbara Sparks
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This paper, representing a subset of data from a larger study, provides a preliminary social analysis of a specific site of informal learning with welfare mothers in a job readiness program and the role of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in meaning making. As the women came together to talk about their experiences with each other, they were listened to, taken into account, and validated in their past experiences, current circumstances, and feelings; they also had an opportunity to learn from each other thus illuminating informal learning. The informal learning of women on welfare can assist us in understanding how subjugated knowledges …
"White Practices" In Adult Education Settings: An Exploration, Sue Shore
"White Practices" In Adult Education Settings: An Exploration, Sue Shore
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This paper draws together literature from the newly emerging areas of studies about Whiteness, and postcolonial theory to provide an alternative analysis of the Inquiry processes into adult community education undertaken in Australia over the last decade.
Citizenship Learning And Democratic Engagement: Political Capital Revisited, Daniel Schugurnesky
Citizenship Learning And Democratic Engagement: Political Capital Revisited, Daniel Schugurnesky
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This paper attempts to contribute to the debates on adult citizenship education, particularly regarding the connections between citizenship learning and the redistribution of political power.
Before The Memory Fades: Measuring Long Term Memory In Older Adults, Jeb Schenck
Before The Memory Fades: Measuring Long Term Memory In Older Adults, Jeb Schenck
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An instrument was designed to measure visual memory span, a common form of memory used by adult learners. The instrument tested 239 older adults, using color photographs of household objects, which were later recalled. A number of significant variables were found and the instrument is believed suitable for examining the efficacy of adult instructional methods.
Life Long Learning And Collective Experience, Henning Salling Olesen
Life Long Learning And Collective Experience, Henning Salling Olesen
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The paper examines two aspects of collective experience and lifelong learning and invites a cross cultural discussion. The first theme concerns the historical conditions for Life Long Learning, especially in work. The second deals with the conceptual differences between German critical theory and post-modern discourses of lifelong learning.
Passing The Buck: Transferring Social And Cultural Capital In An Employment Preparation Program, Ralf St.Clair
Passing The Buck: Transferring Social And Cultural Capital In An Employment Preparation Program, Ralf St.Clair
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This case study examines influences on curriculum in the employment preparation provision of a trade union in British Columbia. Analysis illustrates the importance of forces external to the immediate educational setting, the most pervasive being the requirement to function as an effective means of transferring cultural and social capital to unemployed people.
Revisiting The Map Of The Territory, Kjell Rubenson
Revisiting The Map Of The Territory, Kjell Rubenson
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The purpose of this study was to revisit the article The Map of the Territory, written twenty years ago. The analysis is based on a review of major journals, conference proceedings and some key books. The review reveals how the landscape is being shifted by paradigmatic changes in the social sciences and the broadening of the boundary of adult education practice. The separation of empirically and normatively informed arguments is seen as a major problem for the drawing of the map
Tool For Transformation: Cooperative Inquiry As A Process For Healing From Internalized Oppression, Penny Rosenwasser
Tool For Transformation: Cooperative Inquiry As A Process For Healing From Internalized Oppression, Penny Rosenwasser
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This paper documents how cooperative inquiry can be a transformative tool for groups – in this case, a diverse group of Jewish women – to make meaning from their experience of internalized oppression and to create healing strategies.
Making Assumptions: Faculty Responses To Students With Disabilities., Tonette S. Rocco
Making Assumptions: Faculty Responses To Students With Disabilities., Tonette S. Rocco
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No abstract available.
Literacy And Attitudes: Research Among Adults In The City Of São Paulo, Brazil, Vera Masagao Ribeiro
Literacy And Attitudes: Research Among Adults In The City Of São Paulo, Brazil, Vera Masagao Ribeiro
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The research includes a quantitative and a qualitative stage. Profiles of groups with higher and lower literacy levels are described and explanatory factors of this condition are suggested. Derived from the results, some adult education guidelines are given.
Researching Neoliberal Reforms In Child Protection Agencies: A Quest For The New Century, Ann Reich
Researching Neoliberal Reforms In Child Protection Agencies: A Quest For The New Century, Ann Reich
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This study highlights the usefulness of a different mode of analysis to foreground the connections between neoliberal reforms in education and training and public sector organisations, and the practices of new technologies of training – in this case the "learning organisation."
Researching The Implementation Of Work-Based Learning Within Higher Education: Questioning Collusion And Resistance, Fiona Reeve, Jim Gllacher
Researching The Implementation Of Work-Based Learning Within Higher Education: Questioning Collusion And Resistance, Fiona Reeve, Jim Gllacher
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This paper develops a framework for characterising the range of work-based learning practices within higher education. It suggests some directions for research in the context of competing discourses.
Beyond Participation And Stereotypes: Towards The Study Of Engagement In Adult Literacy Education, B. Allan Quigley
Beyond Participation And Stereotypes: Towards The Study Of Engagement In Adult Literacy Education, B. Allan Quigley
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Mainstream adult education framed the critical issues of literacy non-participation within its normative participation models creating a serious setback for literacy. Research. Through a review of the literacy literature and an analysis of the IALS and NALL studies, this paper discusses how undereducated adults refuse to participate in formal education, yet how they engage in informal and incidental learning. It concludes with an argument for research into how and why the undereducated engage in learning rather than participate in education.