Informal Adult Learning: Advertisements in Women’s Magazines in Turkey

2021 ◽  
pp. 074171362199184
Author(s):  
Faik Gür ◽  
Fatma Nevra Seggie ◽  
Gülşah Kısabacak Başgürboğa
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Verbal Content ◽  
Female Subjectivities

This study examines the visual and verbal content of advertisements in women’s magazines published between 1980 and 1990 in Turkey. Based on content analysis, we established the categories of products and services, age, body parts, women’s roles, clothes, and locations. We determined the five most frequent words employed in all grammatical or lexical forms: beautiful (güzel), to live (yaşamak), new (yeni), skin (cilt), and young (genç). By examining the data through informal learning, the study looks at how consumer-oriented values were taught informally to women readers during a period when Turkey underwent integration with the neoliberal global economy. We argue that the advertisements in women’s magazines were effective both in terms of disseminating the dominant values of the era and in causing women to informally internalize the consumer-oriented values required for the development of the desired female subjectivities of an emerging neoliberal society.

Adult learning in traditional music

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Cope
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Technical Advice

This study is based on interviews carried out with 13 adult learners of traditional fiddle playing. The average age of the learners was 56 and they had been learning to play for between 2 and 20 years. All of the interviewees had taken music at school but none of them had been stimulated to participate further in any significant sense. The aspiration to learn to play the fiddle had various sources. Learning usually took place through traditional workshops and through the medium of the tune rather than through scales and exercises. Only one of the participants took regular conventional individualised lessons. They tended to take a pragmatic stance with regard to technique, looking for technical advice when they came up against barriers to progress. The music they played was within an aural culture and most of them learned by ear although they tended to regard notation as a useful supplement. All of them played in some sort of social context and all of them described an immense sense of pleasure and achievement from their playing. It is suggested that this kind of informal learning may have implications for learning to play instruments at school.

Kım and Kadinca: Bridging the Gap between Feminism and Women's Magazines

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 61-84
Author(s):  
Süheyla Kırca
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Sexual Differences ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Female Subjectivities

The category of “woman” has historically been used not only to locate but also to regulate women. Women's magazines were and are part of that process, as Beetham maintains: “[T]hey not only defined readers as ‘women,’ they sought to bring into being the women they addressed” (Beetham 1996, p. ix). Since femininity is always represented as something to be achieved in women's magazines, they provide a context through which women learn their gender roles in the process of becoming feminine. The notion of femininity is not fixed and stable; on the contrary, definitions are continually changing, as evidenced by the consumer discourses that redefined femininity in almost every decade of the twentieth century. These various representations of femininity are ultimately related to the politics of identity. Magazines are, therefore, significant sources in circulating collective meanings, recognizing diverse female subjectivities, and constructing sexual differences.

scholarly journals ADULT LEARNING: TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ORGANIZATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janina Čižikienė ◽  
Audronė Urmanavičienė
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Continuous Learning ◽  
Highly Qualified

The European Union's education and lifelong learning policy stresses informal learning within the society. The article aims to review the concept of lifelong learning and to analyze opportunities for continuous learning process in organizations. New technologies, innovations in the workplace and professional training encourage employees to improve constantly and awareness of the importance of lifelong learning can help to secure their future in a changing labor market. Research methods applied were as following:  literature and document analysis, expert interviews, analysis of the results and interpretation. The article presents a review of scientific literature and research data reveals leaders’ approach to employees' willingness to raise their qualification constantly and the organization's opportunities. The survey showed that employers want to have a highly qualified staff meeting the requirements of the organization, but do not always have sufficient funds for professional development. 

Travel Writing and Mediation in the Lady’s Magazine: Charting ‘the meridian of female reading’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
JoEllen DeLucia
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
Regular Feature ◽  
English Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Travel Writings ◽  
The One

A regular feature of eighteenth-century periodicals, travel narratives allowed magazine readers to imagine their relationship to the world outside of Britain. Via detailed accounts of a range of serialised, excerpted and abridged travel writings in the Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832), JoEllen DeLucia’s essay reveals the role mediation and magazine culture played in producing readers’ sense of women as both self-interested members of the British Empire. Reading texts such as the magazine’s serialisation of Cook’s voyages and the Embassy of Lord Macartney alongside oriental tales and exotic fashion plates, the chapter argues that, on the one hand, travel writing made the world a smaller place, while on the other, its discussions of global politics and theories of good governance, extended the parameters of the feminine sphere. In examining the complex horizontal identifications that magazine travel narratives fostered, DeLucia concludes that women’s magazines present an alternative to the well-worn scripts we have developed about women readers that revolve around the domestic and often very English novel.

scholarly journals Learning in Museums and Art Galleries in Nigeria: Exploring Arts-Based Adult Learning through Collections

Collections ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-61
Author(s):  
Paul Young Akpomuje
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Diverse World

The importance of arts-based adult education in today’s culturally diverse world cannot be overemphasized. Arts-based adult learning provides some of the important cultural contexts for informal learning. Other forms of adult learning—formal and nonformal—have also been immensely enriched by this form of adult education. Museums and art galleries are at the heart of arts-based learning. Whereas learning in the museum has gained attention in western climes, adult education researchers in Nigeria are yet to focus attention on this area of research. The aim of this study was to explore how collections in art galleries and museums provide important opportunities for adult learning in Nigeria. The specific objectives were to explore what adults learn when they interact with collections while visiting museums and art galleries and to highlight how they learn from these collections. Qualitative data were collected from five participants comprising visitors and curators in Natural History Museum, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and the National Gallery of Arts, Osogbo, Nigeria, through interviews. The data were analyzed using content analysis.

scholarly journals Portrayal of tobacco smoking in popular women's magazines: a content analysis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naseera Kasujee ◽  
John Britton ◽  
Jo Cranwell ◽  
Ailsa Lyons ◽  
Manpreet Bains
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Tobacco Smoking ◽  
Women's Magazines
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