Adult Learning Context in Social Action
Transcript of Adult Learning Context in Social Action
Adult Education Context of Learning in
Social Action
Slide share assigment for
EDUC6303
By Maricia Silvera-Batson
Adult learning
Any where
Any place
Any time
Types of Adult Education
Formal
Non Formal
Informal
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Choudry, A. (2009) Learning in social action: knowledge production in social movements, McGill Journal of Education (Online) 44, No 1, 5-17.
Hoskins, B. & Deakin Crick, R.(2010) Competences for learning to learn and active citizenship: different currencies or two sides of the same coin? European Journal of Education 45, No. 1, 2010, Part II, 121-137.
Social ActionADULT LEARNING
For the purpose of social change
Ollis, T. (2011) Learning in social action: the informal and social learning dimensions of circumstantial and lifelong activists, Australian Journal of Adult Learning 51, No. 2, 248-268.
Smolka, A. L. B. (2001) Social practice and social change: activity theory in perspective, Human Development 44, No. 6, 362-367.
Scott, S.M. (2006) A way of seeing: Transformation for a new century, in T. Fenwick, T. Nesbit & B. Spencer (Eds.), Contexts of adult education: Canadian perspectives. Toronto: Thompson Education Publishing, Inc. Pg. 153-163.
Social ActionADULT LEARNING
The Learner
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Social ActionADULT LEARNING
Transformation
Social ActionADULT LEARNING
Competencies
CivicThe sum of the individual
learning outcomes necessary for an active citizen. (P. 9)
Learning to learnThe complex mix of knowledge,
skills, values, attitudes, that support a person becoming a
life long learner. (p.9)
Social ActionADULT LEARNING
Exposure
ConnectAwareness
Action
Social ActionADULT LEARNING
Culture & History
Social ActionADULT LEARNING
engagement
participation
involvement
immersion
Social ActionADULT LEARNING
MON TUES WED THUR FRI SAT SUN
Activist Participation
Circumstantial
Life Long
Circumstantial
• Skills are learned rapidly• Activism
happens through
circumstance
Life Long
• Skills are learned over
time• Activism
happens through full immersion
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