Self-sufficiency of the individual in the context of adult education

2019 ◽  
Vol 2(13) (2019) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Tetiana Kuchai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Individual

scholarly journals Foucault, Governmentality, Neoliberalism and Adult Education - Perspective on the Normalization of Social Risks

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kopecký
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
The Individual

Foucault, Governmentality, Neoliberalism and Adult Education - Perspective on the Normalization of Social RisksThe article deals with the relevance of the work of Foucault to critical analysis of the political concept of lifelong learning that currently dominates. This concept relates to the field of adult education and learning. The article makes reference to the relatively late incorporation of Foucault's work within andragogy. It shows the relevance of Foucault's concept of a subject situated within power relations where the relation between knowledge and power plays a key role. The analysis of changing relations between knowledge and power will help us to understand important features of neoliberal public policies. The motif of human capital is key. The need to continually adapt to the changing economic and social conditions follows on from the neoliberal interpretation of learning, and the individual is to blame for failure on the labour market or in life generally.

A Study in Social Guilt

1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-59
Author(s):  
Fred de Silva
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Elemental Form

It is essential that the international community should follow up present major undertakings to help Third World countries achieve economic self-sufficiency. How ever, the ordinary man or woman, confronted with the bewildering mass of eco nomic formulations and technicalities employed in the approaches to a new inter- notional economic order, may be forgiven for wondering where the individual comes in. There is a danger that the means (international economic equality) may become more important than the ends (the satisfaction of basic human, i.e. indivi dual, needs and rights). A Third World journalist who was present at the Seventh special Session of the UN General Assembly and a participant in the 1975 Dag Hammarskjold Third World Journalists' Seminar suggests that the success of the joint endeavour will depend on the extent to which the collaborators understand the human problems involved in any exercise of give and take, and here he presents the problem in its most elemental form, in a sort of real-life allegory drawn from an experience in his own country, an essay in awakening the collective conscience of humanity.

scholarly journals Approaches to Training Teachers of Adults in the UK

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-79
Author(s):  
Vadym Chychuk
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Adult Student ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

Abstract The article deals with the theoretical foundations of teacher training for adult students in the UK. It has been found out that the system of adult education is based on the andragogical approach that reveals patterns, psychological and pedagogical factors of effective learning. In applying the andragogical approach to adult education the following factors contribute to the learning process improvement: considering the motivation of adult learning, defining educational interests and needs of each adult student, the choice made by andragogue of the learning strategies and techniques designed to increase the professional level of adult education, practical implementation of knowledge and experience acquired by adult students in training process, taking into account the individual characteristics of each participant in the learning process, the desire to cooperate with the teacherandragogue. The theoretical basis of this process is the science of andragogics. It has been revealed that when working with an adult student, the following approaches are used: traditional didactic, problem-search, facilitating that are focused on the content and the learning process. Author determined specific approaches used in the UK for teaching adults, namely active, institutional, competence, synergy and others.

scholarly journals The affordances and limitations of collaborative research in the TESOL classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-61
Author(s):  
Yvette Slaughter ◽  
Julie Choi ◽  
David Nunan ◽  
Hayley Black ◽  
Rebecca Grimaud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Education Centre ◽  
The Individual

The diversity of learning needs within the TESOL field creates inherent tensions between the need for targeted professional learning for TESOL teachers, the more generalist nature of tertiary TESOL courses, and the varied research interests of teacher educators. This article describes a collaborative research project between university-based teacher educators and TESOL teachers working in an adult education centre. With a range of aims amongst the research participants, this article reports on the ‘fluid’ and ‘messy’ process of collaborative research (Burns & Edwards, 2014, p. 67) as we investigate the use of identity texts (Cummins & Early, 2011) as a mediating tool for professional learning. In acknowledging the practice of teaching as highly situated, the data presented focuses on the individual experience of each teacher, voiced through an action research frame, before we discuss the achievements and challenges which emerged through this collaborative research process. In the findings, we argue for the importance of championing the case for the messy processes of collaborative research within the broader research academy.

scholarly journals The Interoperability between the Public and Private Sectors in Light of Adult Education. Supplements to the Planned Downsizing in the Public Sector

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-155
Author(s):  
Csilla Megyesi
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Market Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
The Individual

Abstract The current study is a result of the Hungarian government’s aspiration to cut bureaucracy and increase public administration’s efficiency, thus impacting personnel and reorganizing the labour market. The public-sector headcount reduction is being justified in terms of Hungary’s inadequate private-/public-sector employment ratio. This reorganization can come to fruition only via the development of intellectual capital and a well-designed system for retraining and further education. In cases of retraining and further education offered by the state, we must be wary of generational differences and possible motivations, while also keeping in mind the influence education can have on the market, society, and the individual. Our research has shown that the demand for a given type of instruction is also influenced by the generational differences among those who wish to learn. Overall, our respondents showed an interest in learning.

scholarly journals NEĮGALIŲJŲ, JUDANČIŲ VEŽIMĖLIUOSE, SAVIRAIŠKOS GALIMYBĖS FIZINIO AKTYVUMO PERSPEKTYVOJE

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-89
Author(s):  
Vilma Stankutė ◽  
Laimutė Samsonienė ◽  
Algirdas Juozulynas
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Drug Prevention ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Severity Of Disability ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Effective Development

Recognizing the power of people with disabilities in physical activities, regardless of their abilities, we establish the conditions for their effective development: encourage their self-expression, self-image, self-esteem and improve body image. Objective of the study - to assess the self-sufficiency and personal physical activity experience and a real need. Take the test - 29 respondents with a physical disability and moving wheelchair. The study was conducted in 2014. In July and August, Palanga drug prevention in the hospital and the Lithuanian Association of paraplegics lanšafto therapy and reakreacijos center. Research methods - in order to find out personal empowerment of the individual factors and the overall social environment level, through personal expression conditions, dynamic and self determination was applied qualitative research method, using a semi-structured interview data collection method and the open and closed reference questions; the level of independence of the respondents assessed the FIM and Barthel index. The results - regardless of the severity of disability, level of independence, and time after injury or illness, physical activity, respondents evaluated positively: positive emotions, new experiences, good health, positive body image.

scholarly journals National Self-consciousness in the Context of Multicultural Practices in Ukraine

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Tetiana Yereskova
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Public Life ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Cultural Self ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Multicultural Practices ◽  
Ukrainian Society

In this article the main tendencies of change of national self-consciousness due to global multiculturalism are investigated. There are three possible variations of manifestations of national consciousness by the members of the Ukrainian society in the context of multicultural practices. Firstly, it is the return to the restriction of civil rights and freedoms of the person, the desire for state and socio-cultural self-sufficiency. Secondly, it is the tendency towards a growing nationalist orientation. Thirdly, it is the purposeful orientation towards democratic values, accompanied by not only declarative but also real steps towards the ever-increasing democratization of public life, legal, civil society, integration with other social systems, peoples and states. Finally, the author shows that the national self-consciousness can serve as a kind of “challenge” for the formation and development of multicultural practices of the members of contemporary Ukrainian society, as it can be manifested either by a committed attitude to a particular ethnic group; or because of the characteristics of ethnocentrism; or through the properties of ethno-radicalism; and finally, due to the properties and characteristics of tolerance. However, national self-consciousness is intended to develop national and above all the essential, rational in it and overcome the nature of purely ethno-national. It is these “levers” of the management of ethno-national relations in the country, which ensure the harmonious integration of the individual, the community, the country into the intercultural space.

scholarly journals The Motive of Individualism in Religion

1914 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-496
Author(s):  
Warner Fite
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Personal Relation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Spiritual Self ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Universe

These passages, which I have printed elsewhere, I venture to reproduce on the ground that they state, if somewhat baldly, not indeed all that is important for an individualistic philosophy, but what is most distinctive and necessary. And thus they enable us to see the full dimensions of the question which I shall endeavor to answer, namely, whether the spirit of a free man is compatible with that reverence for the universe and desire for unity with the universe, conceived always as a personal universe—or, more concretely, with that worship and love of God—which I shall assume to be implied in any genuine religion. I need hardly say that the usual answer to the question would be negative. Those who stand firmly enough for the right of self-assertion in the presence of our fellows would be likely either to deny the authority of religion or at any rate to hold that self-assertion has properly no place there. And traditional Christianity, while teaching the doctrine of a personal relation to a personal God and, in the doctrine of personal immortality, affirming, almost distinctively, the worth of the individual soul, treats this worth, hardly as a right, but as a gift, and holds that though a man may stand upright in the presence of his fellows, in the presence of God his attitude must be one of self-abnegation and self-effacement—of submission. On the other hand, in Mr. Bertrand Russell's essay, A Free Man's Worship, in which I should say that the motif of the “free man” is rendered for the most part admirably, it seems to be implied that a free man's religion is necessarily a religion of self-sufficiency. This states my question: Does the individualistic motive imply a spiritual self-sufficiency?

MEDICAL CARE IN THE 1960'S

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-323
Author(s):  
Aims C. McGuinness
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
National Level ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
The People ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Individual

YOU ARE APPROACHING the end of the first of 3 days of a beautiful scientific program covering a broad range of medical problems, many of which are of regular and repeated concern to the practitioner. Medicine, however, as a blend of the physical and biological sciences on the one hand, and of the social sciences on the other, cannot be separated from the socioeconomic setting in which it is practiced. It is significant, therefore, that your program committee has recognized this fact in scheduling this afternoon's mid-meeting interlude. A better title for this paper would be "Some Reflections on the Social and Economic Aspects of Medicine." I say "some reflections," for this is a vast subject, and about all I can hope to do in the time allotted is to skim over a few highlights which may serve as a stimulus to some of you to reflections of your own. Any consideration of the social and economic forces which are so inextricably related to today's complex medical care problems, perhaps would best be brought into perspective by a brief historical review. Self-sufficiency has been one of America's most cherished traditions—self-sufficiency of the individual, the family, the community, and the state; and in our federal system of government, action at national level has been invoked only to deal with problems of a magnitude and difficulty beyond the scope of the individual, and of government at state and local levels. It was in this context that Lincoln made his oftquoted statement to the effect that it is the function of government to do for the people only what they cannot do for themselves otherwise, or cannot do as well.

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