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Education And Learning To Support A Just Transition In Central Appalachia, Colleen Unroe
Education And Learning To Support A Just Transition In Central Appalachia, Colleen Unroe
Adult Education Research Conference
This case study explores the learning and education of a community organization involved with multiple Just Transition initiatives in Eastern Kentucky where the economies were formerly dominated by the coal industry. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted of leaders within the organization in addition to exploring the educational materials. Although non-formal learning plays an important part, informal learning, activist exchanges, and communities of practice play a more fundamental role in the activist learning.
Formal And Informal Learning Transfer In The Workplace, Royce Ann Collins, Connie Carpenter
Formal And Informal Learning Transfer In The Workplace, Royce Ann Collins, Connie Carpenter
Adult Education Research Conference
Both employees and organizations invest significant amounts of time, energy, and funds while promoting knowledge development as a fulcrum for increasing reflexive transformation, gaining higher cognitive skills, and achieving both organizational and workforce members’ performance goals. Our paper advocates multi-faceted and interactionist adult learning approaches designed to stimulate learners’ motivational dispositions as they transition to and from formal and informal learning environments.