Blended Shore Programs: The Vision and Reality of 21st Century Adult Education

Author(s):  
Kenneth Browne Elazier ◽  
Gabriele I.E. Strohschen
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Author(s):  
Victor X. Wang ◽  
Valerie A. Storey

To serve a significant portion of the student population, adult learners, in the academy in the 21st century, this chapter argues that online education (e-learning) has the potential to open wider the door to greater access and advancement for learners across their life spans than the traditional four walled classroom. Some of the major issues revolving around online education and adult learners, such as policy, access, completion, and equity, are addressed in this chapter. The purpose of this chapter is to identify future technology trends, and then show how we can rely on practice and research to harness the great yet untapped potential of online education to promote online education programs, especially among adult learners. Policy, access, completion, and equity must be well addressed if online adult education is to be employed effectively and efficiently.


Author(s):  
Victor X. Wang

To serve a significant portion of the student population, adult learners, in the academy in the 21st century, this chapter argues that online education (e.g., e-learning) has the potential to open wider the door to greater access and advancement for learners across their life spans than the traditional, four walled classroom teaching. Some of the major issues revolving around online education and adult learners such as policy, access, completion, and equity have been addressed in this chapter. The purpose of this chapter is to show it’s possible to rely on practice and research to harness the great, yet untapped potential of online education to market and promote online education programs, especially among adult learners. Marketing and promoting online education programs are equally as important as helping adult learners learn.


Author(s):  
Victor X. Wang

To serve a significant portion of the student population, adult learners, in the academy in the 21st century, this chapter argues that online education (e.g., e-learning) has the potential to open wider the door to greater access and advancement for learners across their life spans than the traditional four walled classroom. Some of the major issues revolving around online education and adult learners such as policy, access, completion and equity have been addressed in this chapter. The purpose of this chapter is to show how we can rely on practice and research to harness the great yet untapped potential of online education to promote online education programs especially among adult learners. Policy, access, completion and equity must be well addressed if online adult education is to be employed effectively and efficiently.


Author(s):  
R. Michael Fisher

The author critically examines the directional trends that education has gone through in the last 45 years of his teaching and learning experiences, primarily in Alberta, Canada (1972-2017). He argues that, formerly, Alberta was at the leading edge of positive progressive change, before neoliberal ideology invaded Education. Through use of autoethnographic reflection and sociocultural and political contextualization of his educational experiences, the author elaborates the necessity of adopting a holistic-integral alternative path to research and teaching outside of institutionalized mainstream education systems. His emphasis on the affective domain, for example the importance of fear in education, is accompanied by his applications of developmental notions of “post-adult,” transdisciplinary, and integral theoretical work. The purpose of the chapter is to demonstrate, through his own life, a model of potential guidance for teachers, who are questioning how best to negotiate their own careers within the challenges of 21st century neoliberalism and cascading global crises.


2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
Akpovire Oduaran ◽  
Lucy Okukpon

This qualitative interpretivist study analyses the perceptions of a stratified and purposive sample of university-based adult educators with a view to understanding how they perceive the effectiveness of adult education as a contributor to national development in southern Africa at the beginning of the 21st century. These perceptions of university-based adult educators are investigated against the background of the current global trend to project adult education as a component of the configuration of lifelong learning. Among the findings are that university-based adult educators in southern Africa differ to some extent as to whether or not the discipline has contributed significantly to southern African national development, and that the need for an enabling environment for the utilisation of adult education is as yet unappreciated.


2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 12125
Author(s):  
Valentina Abraukhova ◽  
Anastasija Zimovetc

The present work considers the development of adult education in Russia from the elimination of illiteracy from the late 19th -early 20th centuries to the use of information and communication technologies at the beginning of the 21st century. The aim of the article is to consider the stages of development of adult education and to determine at the stages of development the most sought-after educational areas and technologies in additional adult education. In this work, differences in the process of teaching children and adults are considered, an excursion is made into the history of the formation of adult education in Russia. A modern picture of additional adult education is given. Based on the studies, the authors conclude that for adults the most sought-after educational field is the study of a foreign language using remote technologies.


2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-174
Author(s):  
Olena Ogienko ◽  
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Olena Terenko ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (67) ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Maria Clarisse Vieira ◽  
Renato Hilário dos Reis ◽  
Julieta Borges Lemes Sobral

<p>Este artigo tem como objetivo compreender e discutir algumas das principais concepções de educação e trabalho que permeiam a formação do trabalhador brasileiro, com base na análise da criação do Programa Nacional de Acesso ao Ensino Técnico e Emprego, o Pronatec, instituído em 2011. O texto apresenta um breve histórico das concepções que envolvem a formação do trabalhador presentes no final da década de 1980 e 1990, no âmbito da elaboração e aprovação da Lei n. 9.394/1996, que se estabelece até a primeira década do século XXI. Com base em análise documental e na legislação do período, dialoga com a produção acadêmica que permeia os campos da educação e trabalho e educação de jovens e adultos, analisando em que medida o Pronatec tende a fortalecer a dualidade estrutural do capitalismo ou a criar espaços emancipatórios, que possibilitem uma educação pautada na integração entre formação profissional e formação básica.</p><p><strong><em>Un análisis de las concepciones que permean la formación profesional de Pronatec</em></strong></p><p><em>Este artículo tiene el objetivo de entender y discutir algunas de las principales concepciones de educación y trabajo que permean la formación del trabajador brasileño, en base al análisis de la creación del Programa Nacional de Acesso ao Ensino Técnico e Emprego, Pronatec, que se instituyó en el 2011. El texto presenta un breve historial de las concepciones relacionadas con la formación del trabajador a fines de las décadas de 1980 y 1990, en el marco de la preparación y aprobación de la Ley n. 9.394/1996, que se establece hasta la primera década del siglo XXI. En base al análisis documental y a la legislación del periodo, dialoga con la producción académica que permea los campos de la educación y trabajo y de la educación de jóvenes y adultos, analizando en qué medida Pronatec tiende a fortalecer la dualidad estructural del capitalismo o a crear espacios de emancipación, que posibiliten una educación basada en la integración entre formación profesional y formación básica.</em></p><p><strong><em>Palabras clave:</em></strong><em> Educación de Jóvenes y Adultos; Trabajo; Políticas Educacionales; Formación Profesional.</em></p><p><strong><em>An analysis of the concepts that permeate the Pronatec professional training</em></strong></p><p><em>This article aims to understand and discuss some of the main concepts of education and work involving the training of the Brazilian worker based on the analysis of the creation of the Programa Nacional de Acesso ao Ensino Técnico e Emprego [National Program of Technical Education and Employment Access], Pronatec, established in 2011. The text presents a brief account of the ideas involved in the training of the worker at the end of the 1980s and 1990s, amid the drafting and approval of Law 9394/96 instituted by the end of the first decade of the 21st century. The article is based on documentary analysis and on the education laws of that period. It interacts with academic work in the fields of education and work, as well as the education of youth and adults. It examines the extent to which Pronatec strengthens the structural duality of capitalism, or creates emancipative spaces which allow education to be based on the integration between professional and basic training.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em> Youth and Adult Education; Work; Educational Policies; Professional Training.</em><strong></strong></p><p><em><br /></em></p>


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