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Personal Growth, Social Change Or Human Capital: A Document Analysis Of An Online Education Program For Adult Learners, Nakita Dolet, Maeghen L. Macdonald Jan 2016

Personal Growth, Social Change Or Human Capital: A Document Analysis Of An Online Education Program For Adult Learners, Nakita Dolet, Maeghen L. Macdonald

Adult Education Research Conference

This document analysis interrogates how one institution balances classically competing objectives of emancipatory learning, personal growth, and human resource development in an online adult education program.


Human Capital Theory: Intersecting Educational And Economic Theories, Paul Bouchard Aug 2008

Human Capital Theory: Intersecting Educational And Economic Theories, Paul Bouchard

Adult Education Research Conference

Training policy in the developed world is increasingly influenced by the perception that the future lies in developing the Knowledge Economy through investments in “Human Capital”. There are some problems with this simplistic view of contemporary economics.