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Michael Mackert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • health literacy in Adult Education centers exploring educator and staff needs
    Health Promotion Practice, 2020
    Co-Authors: Sara Champlin, Diana S Hoover, Michael Mackert
    Abstract:

    Objective. Incorporating health content into Adult Education courses is promising for increasing health literacy skills among "hard-to-reach" populations. The purpose of this study was to gain previously untapped knowledge of Adult Education personnel (i.e., educators, staff) about the strategies and programs that would be beneficial for helping students learn about health. Method. Personnel (N = 53) from three literacy coalitions completed an online survey that assessed interest and preferences for developing a health literacy curriculum. Results. Personnel indicated general concepts such as health services and insurance as those of greatest priority. Additionally, tools designed for general use (completion of forms) were favored. Personnel preferred programs that focused on general skills over those designed to address specific health topics, χ2(1) = 11.52, p = .001. Conclusions. Adult Education personnel find greatest value in health literacy programs aimed at increasing general skills rather than disease-/topic-specific content. There were several mismatches in topics noted as a "priority" and those for which personnel felt comfortable teaching. A focus on fostering general health skills will help all students-not just those with specific health concerns such as diabetes and asthma. Teaching health literacy through general skill development could make health programs exciting, engaging, and accessible for students.

Tara Fenwick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • performative ontologies sociomaterial approaches to researching Adult Education and lifelong learning
    European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 2013
    Co-Authors: Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards
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    Sociomaterial approaches to researching Education, such as those generated by actornetwork theory and complexity theory, have been growing in significance in recent years, both theoretically and methodologically. Such approaches are based upon a performative ontology rather than the more characteristic representational epistemology that informs much research. In this article, we outline certain aspects of sociomaterial sensibilities in researching Education, and some of the uptakes on issues related to the Education of Adults. We further suggest some possibilities emerging for Adult Education and lifelong learning researchers from taking up such theories and methodologies. (DIPF/Orig.)

  • flexibility and individualisation in Adult Education work the case of portfolio educators
    Journal of Education and Work, 2003
    Co-Authors: Tara Fenwick
    Abstract:

    Abstract 'Portfolio educators' is a term adopted here to represent people engaged in Adult Education activities, who create portfolios of self-employed work arrangements to contract their skills in a variety of contexts. This qualitative study explores the personal experiences of negotiating teaching, research and programme-planning activities as a 'portfolio educator', focusing on the life histories of 12 individuals in western Canada. Within these stories of flexibl1isation and individualisation in Education work, four tensions in particular are examined: the tensions of personal choice, of continuous change, of fluid knowledge, and of flexible location. Implications are discussed related to the changing state of Adult Education and the nature of portfolio careers.

André P. Grace - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a periodization of north american Adult Education 1919 1970 a critical sociological analysis of trends and perspectives
    International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2014
    Co-Authors: André P. Grace
    Abstract:

    This article provides a critical sociological analysis of trends and perspectives pervasive during the emergence of North American Adult Education (1919–1970). In discussing transitions during the first 50 years of what is considered modern practice, it draws on Webster E. Cotton's (1986, On Behalf of Adult Education: A Historical Examination of the Supporting Literature. Boston, MA: Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults) periodization model—modified a few years later—to organize people, politics, and ideas as categories shaping North American Adult Education. In exploring this complexity, the article reflects on the perennial difficulty of answering the question ‘What is Adult Education?’ Following brief considerations of periods one (1919–1929) and two (1930–1946) in the field’s emergence, the article focuses on period three (1947–1970) in more detail, providing critical perspectives on field expansion during the perceived corporate age of Adult Education. It considers how Adult Education...

  • the decline of social Education and the rise of instrumentalism in north american Adult Education 1947 1970
    Studies in the education of adults, 2012
    Co-Authors: André P. Grace
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    AbstractIn 1947 the Truman Commission on Higher Education accentuated the importance of Adult Education in its report entitled Higher Education for American Democracy. In 1970 a new US Handbook of Adult Education signifying the move to a more professionalised field of study and practice was published. The intervening years encapsulate a time of profound cultural changes marked by scientific and technological advances intertwined with Cold War adjustments and a pervasive politics of fear. In this period North American Adult Education became immersed in the discourse of democracy endorsing capitalism as it advanced middle-class economic and cultural values. In an analysis of the positions of dominant players in North American Adult Education (1947–1970), this article explores what emerged as a growing divide between the field's historical location as social Education and its new location as an emerging professionalised modern practice steeped in instrumentalism. It considers what the field's historically di...

Fejes Andreas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • ‘Lack of quality’ in Swedish Adult Education : a policy study
    'Informa UK Limited', 2020
    Co-Authors: Mufic Johanna, Fejes Andreas
    Abstract:

    This article focuses on how ‘problems’ regarding quality in Adult Education are constituted as particular sorts of ‘problems’. The analysis takes its point of departure in a poststructural analytic strategy called ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’. The material analysed consists of various policy documents concerning contemporary Swedish Adult Education. The results indicate that the concept of quality is described as being deficient and failing to address perceived challenges in Adult Education, namely the ‘heterogenous student group’ and ‘varying pre-conditions for the organisation of Education’. Thus, the concepts of flexibility and individualisation are introduced as a ‘solution’. But at the same time, it is suggested in policy that the implementation of them has failed. In effect, representatives of the municipal authority and principals are held responsible and the need for more strict regulations and increased accountability in order to implement flexibility and individualisation in the Adult Education system are stressed in policy. Finally, the analysis of the policy documents leads to questions about the consequences for both school personnel and the students enrolled in Adult Education as the quality of the Education seems to be assessed in relation to goal attainment and throughflow of students

  • The use of bibliometrics in Adult Education research
    'Brill', 2020
    Co-Authors: Nylander Erik, Österlund Lovisa, Fejes Andreas
    Abstract:

    The aim of this chapter is to introduce a methodological approach that can be used in order to analyze how the Adult Education research field is shaped through research practices, measurement standards and indexation. More specifically, we focus on three formative dimensions that we argue play a significant role in constructing “the rules of the game” in contemporary academia: (i) indexation, (ii) publications and (iii) citations. Our account is nowhere close to exhaustive but outlines how bibliographic data and bibliometric methodology can be used. Hence, to build our argument we draw on the research traditions of bibliometrics which, in the last few decades, has become linked to a highly controversial subject. Namely, how the reward system of the modern university should function. What will be the basis of ‘quality’ assessments of universities? How will merit be fought about and money distributed across different universities and disciplines

Ellysa Cahoy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.