{"title":"Κριτική προσέγγιση της εισαγωγής Εξ’Αποστάσεως Εξετάσεων εν μέσω πανδημίας:","authors":"Petroula Mantzorou, Eugenia Panitsides","doi":"10.12681/haea.31212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/haea.31212","url":null,"abstract":"Το Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο (ΕΑΠ), το μοναδικό εξ αποστάσεως Ανώτατο Εκπαιδευτικό Ίδρυμα στην Ελλάδα, ακολουθώντας την παγκόσμια τάση, εισήγαγε τις εξ αποστάσεως ηλεκτρονικές εξετάσεις το 2020, σε μια προσπάθεια να αντιμετωπίσει τους περιορισμούς που επιβλήθηκαν λόγω της πανδημίας του Covid-19. Οι εξ αποστάσεως ηλεκτρονικές εξετάσεις αναφέρονται σε μια μέθοδο εξέτασης κατά την οποία υπάρχει φυσική απόσταση μεταξύ φοιτητών και καθηγητών, ενώ η όλη διαδικασία πραγματοποιείται μέσω ηλεκτρονικού υπολογιστή και των εξαρτημάτων του (μικρόφωνο, κάμερα, ακουστικά). Η σχετική βιβλιογραφία έχει καταδείξει ότι οι εξ αποστάσεως ηλεκτρονικές εξετάσεις είναι εν γένει επωφελείς για όλους, φοιτητές, καθηγητές και εκπαιδευτικά ιδρύματα. Ωστόσο, εκφράζεται επίσης η ανάγκη περαιτέρω διερεύνησης των απόψεων των φοιτητών αναφορικά με τις ηλεκτρονικές εξετάσεις, καθώς δεν έχουν καταγραφεί επαρκώς στις σχετικές έρευνες. Για τους λόγους αυτούς και λαμβάνοντας υπόψη ότι οι εξ αποστάσεως εξετάσεις αποτελούν καινοτομία στην Ελλάδα, στόχος της παρούσας μελέτης ήταν μια κριτική προσέγγιση σχετικά με τις εξ αποστάσεως ηλεκτρονικές εξετάσεις που οργάνωσε και διεξήγαγε το ΕΑΠ το 2020 μέσα από τη διερεύνηση των απόψεων των φοιτητών. Το δείγμα της ποσοτικής μελέτης αποτέλεσαν 111 φοιτητές διαφορετικών τμημάτων του ΕΑΠ, από 20 έως 60 ετών. Παρά τους εγγενείς περιορισμούς της μελέτης, τα αποτελέσματά μας, τα οποία συνάδουν με τη σχετική βιβλιογραφία, σκιαγραφούν ότι αν και το άγχος πριν από μια ηλεκτρονική εξέταση είναι σημαντικά υψηλότερο λόγω πιθανών τεχνικών ζητημάτων, οι φοιτητές είναι γενικά θετικοί στην καθιέρωση των εξ’ αποστάσεως εξετάσεων ως μέσο αξιολόγησης.","PeriodicalId":267363,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Critical Issues","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116025422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mezirow’s Theory of Transformative Learning and Freire’s Pedagogy","authors":"T. Fleming","doi":"10.12681/haea.32302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/haea.32302","url":null,"abstract":"Jack Mezirow (1923-2014) and Paulo Freire (1921-1997) are two of the most important contributors to understanding adult learning. Mezirow (Bloom, 2015) frequently acknowledged the impact that Freire had on his thinking and one can wonder if there is a distance between the critical consciousness of Freire and the critical reflection of transformative learning? This study is restricted to the works of Freire and Mezirow and engages in a critical dialogue about their contribution. It does not focus on the multiple ways in which each has been amplified and reinterpreted by sympathetic scholars. These are the main focus of the study: an autobiographical moment; a look at Dewey as the precursor of both Freire and Mezirow; Hegel’s influence; a theological moment that divides the two educators; their contributions to teaching methods useful in critical pedagogy.","PeriodicalId":267363,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Critical Issues","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133239942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation Theory as a Framework for Understanding Transformative Learning","authors":"A. Kokkos","doi":"10.12681/haea.32541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/haea.32541","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Τhe first part of the present Introduction to Mezirow’s translated book outlines the formulation process of his theory, and the second Part presents its constituent components. The third part discusses the relationship between Transformation Theory and “transformative learning theory” and puts forward the opinion that the former constitutes a focal point of reference within the wider theoretical field of transformative learning, which includes diverse conceptualizations. In the last two parts, a reference is made to the book’s translation and suggestions are offered as to the creative and critical approach to its content. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":267363,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Critical Issues","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126350124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Η επιμόρφωση και κατάρτιση των εκπαιδευτικών στο πεδίο της 4ης Βιομηχανικής Επανάστασης","authors":"Κωνσταντίνος Ζωγόπουλος, Λαμπρίνα Γιώτη","doi":"10.12681/aeci.29901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/aeci.29901","url":null,"abstract":"Σκοπός της παρούσας έρευνας είναι η διερεύνηση των αντιλήψεων εκπαιδευτικών της Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης (Δ.Ε.) της Περιφέρειας Δυτικής Ελλάδας για την επιμόρφωση και κατάρτιση υπό το πρίσμα της 4ης βιομηχανικής επανάστασης. Η έρευνα υλοποιήθηκε με ποσοτική μεθοδολογία και τη χορήγηση ερωτηματολογίου στο οποίο ανταποκρίθηκαν 422 εκπαιδευτικοί. Τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας καταδεικνύουν ότι η ενημέρωση των εκπαιδευτικών Δ.Ε. του δείγματος για την 4η βιομηχανική επανάσταση κινείται σε χαμηλά επίπεδα, αν και οι ίδιοι θεωρούν ότι η επιμόρφωση τους σε αντίστοιχα θέματα είναι σημαντική για τη δουλειά τους και πιστεύουν ότι καλύτερος φορέας οργάνωσης επιμορφωτικών σεμιναρίων είναι το Πανεπιστήμιο. Επίσης, υποστηρίζουν ότι η επιμόρφωση θα πρέπει να έχει προαιρετικό χαρακτήρα, να είναι εξάμηνης διάρκειας και να υλοποιείται με τη μεικτή μέθοδο (σύγχρονες - ασύγχρονες δράσεις με περιορισμένο αριθμό δια ζώσης συνεδριών). Κύρια θεματολογία της επιμόρφωσης θα πρέπει να είναι οι νέες τεχνολογίες και η χρήση τους στην εκπαίδευση. Τέλος, διαπιστώνεται θετική συσχέτιση των δημογραφικών χαρακτηριστικών του δείγματος με τις αντιλήψεις τους για την 4η βιομηχανική επανάσταση και τις επιμορφωτικές τους ανάγκες.","PeriodicalId":267363,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Critical Issues","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115128460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Μελετώντας τη διεργασία του μετασχηματισμού των εκπαιδευομένων σε ένα Σχολείο Δεύτερης Ευκαιρίας","authors":"Ιωάννης Κεσόπουλος, Ρέμος Αρμάος","doi":"10.12681/aeci.30329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/aeci.30329","url":null,"abstract":"Η έρευνα διερευνά μετασχηματισμούς δυσλειτουργικών αντιλήψεων των εκπαιδευομένων ενός Σχολείου Δεύτερης Ευκαιρίας επιδιώκοντας να προσδιορίσει το ποσοστό των εκπαιδευομένων που συνειδητοποιούν πιθανή αλλαγή, το προφίλ τους, τους τομείς μετασχηματισμού καθώς και τους παράγοντες, είτε εντός είτε εκτός σχολείου (πρόσωπα, δραστηριότητες), που συμβάλλουν στην αλλαγή. Η μελέτη χρησιμοποίησε τη μικτή μέθοδο αξιοποιώντας το Learning Activities Survey (King, 2009), που περιλαμβάνει ένα ερωτηματολόγιο και μια συνέντευξη, τα οποία προσαρμόστηκαν για τις ανάγκες της παρούσας έρευνας. Στην ποσοτική έρευνα συμμετείχαν 25 εκπαιδευόμενοι και σε ποσοστό 60% δήλωσαν ότι συνειδητοποίησαν μετασχηματισμούς. Στην ποιοτική έρευνα πήραν μέρος οκτώ εκπαιδευόμενοι και από τις συνεντεύξεις αναδείχθηκε ότι έξι απ’ αυτούς φαίνεται να προχώρησαν σε μετασχηματισμό αντιλήψεών τους σε τομείς όπως τα στερεότυπα και οι κοινωνικοί ρόλοι, η ικανότητα βελτίωσης των δεξιοτήτων σε γλωσσικό, αριθμητικό και πληροφορικό γραμματισμό, η δυνατότητα κατανόησης της γλώσσας και διεκπεραίωσης προσωπικών εργασιών (για τους Μουσουλμάνους εκπαιδευόμενους), η συνειδητοποίηση της αξίας τους και της δυνατότητας εκπλήρωσης προσωπικών στόχων, ενώ μετασχημάτισαν και τη νοητική συνήθεια για τη σημασία των σπουδών και τη συμβολή τους στην αυτογνωσία και στην ενίσχυση της αυτοπεποίθησής τους.","PeriodicalId":267363,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Critical Issues","volume":"85 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114059699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning Between Two Worlds: The known and the not-foreknow","authors":"Aliki Nikolaides","doi":"10.12681/aeci.30862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/aeci.30862","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000There is a fundamental assumption that I have held about the role adult learning plays in society. That the sinuous stuff between personal and societal transformation is made up of the connections that learning makes. This assumption has been shaken over the as the past two years, as ruptures of civil unrest and the cloud of the global Pandemic have revealed weaknesses in the power of learning that makes the vital connection between the personal and societal, transformative. I wonder more than ever how to reveal and make real the learning that connects the two worlds I feel we live in. The world that is known and that continues to be reproduced with all of its inequities and exclusions and the world not- foreknown that wants to be different, liberating the creative potential that learning unfolds. \u0000In this writing I offer a personal experience of penetrating the underlying assumptions I have about learning in between two worlds. I practice a method that I have created, in-scending, a practice of staying close to undergoing experience (Nicolaides, Forthcoming; Yorks & Nicolaides, 2013), experiencing experience while experiencing experience would be another way to describe what Dewey (1934) meant. In-scend(ing) is a word of my own making. It is the felt sense of moving beneath experience to undergo it. A tool of generative knowing (Nicolaides, Forthcoming; Nicolaides, 2015). \u0000I explore the arising of awareness that emerged through the practice of in-scending, beneath an inquiry about my relationship to being secure in these times of insecurity. Undergoing is a less known aspect of reflection from Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy of learning through experience. Dewey discusses a necessary aspect of learning from experience in terms of undergoing an experience (Nicolaides, & Lim, 2020). Undergoing describes the felt sense of experiencing an experience. Having an experience is necessary for learning, and most assuredly for transformative learning to take shape though the meaning-making process that includes reflection on experience, and going beneath the experience with head, heart, and body. In this short offering I reveal what I learn by inquiring beneath what it means for me to be secure in times of insecurity. I do so by reviving Dewey’s (1934) concept of undergoing experience while also risking the conventional epistemologies that undergird transformative learning to consider a way of knowing that begin beneath experience (Nicolaides, 2015). \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":267363,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Critical Issues","volume":"03 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127236134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Larissa – Learning City: From Local Learning to Global Actions","authors":"Dimitris Deligiannis, A. Kokkos, T. Fleming","doi":"10.12681/aeci.30772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/aeci.30772","url":null,"abstract":"Covid-19 demonstrates the vulnerabilities of living in close proximity to others and we ask this question: What kind of city would enhance the lives of all its citizens, including new arrivals? This question is at the center of attempts to bring adult and citizenship education to address community and social problems through a pedagogy of the city, in this case the City of Larissa. We explore the Learning City – its concept, goals and reality; the cultural and educational obstacles the project faces and the actions and tasks facing Larissa - Learning City. UNESCO provides the framework, resources and support for the Learning City project. It is planned as an exercise in democracy and citizenship which is the version of lifelong learning proposed by the Municipality of Larissa the local lead agency for this venture. The rationale for the project is built on the Freire inspired idea that the local is the starting point for addressing global issues.","PeriodicalId":267363,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Critical Issues","volume":"225 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132293295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In search of a model of mentoring adult educators","authors":"M. Koutsoukos","doi":"10.12681/aeci.30861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/aeci.30861","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Since the Treaty of Lisbon in 2000, there has been a growing interest in the European area concerning mentoring in adult education, which, however, focuses on adult learners and is linked to their participation in educational programs as well as their inclusion in the labor market (Raschauer & Resch, 2016). This article focuses on adult educators and refers to research aimed at exploring adult educators' views on mentoring as a tool to support their teaching work. The results showed that adult educators desire to mentor and describe a framework that incorporates the concepts of teamwork and reflection. On this basis, a group, reflective model of mentoring is proposed which aims to the inspiration, development, empowerment, and action of adult educators. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":267363,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Critical Issues","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129371492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Active Labor market policies and Lifelong Learning in Greece","authors":"Anna Tsiboukli, A. Efstratoglou","doi":"10.12681/aeci.30603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/aeci.30603","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of the present paper is to discuss how and under what circumstances, active labor market policies and adult education could assist staff to cope with stress and enhance skills and abilities to achieve employment. The high numbers of unemployed in Greece together with the long-term ineffective austerity measures and policies imposed in the country and the reduction of the social welfare state, created many multiple and complex issues that deteriorated after the pandemic. The present paper suggests that specific active labor market policies must be employed together with lifelong learning policies and programmes to ensure future developments. Greece, more than any other modern European country, was faced for several years with extreme austerity measures that affected the social, economic, and personal level. The working population and especially young people had to cope with prolonged unemployment, limited options for reentering the job market and the associated stress that follows exposure to adverse experiences. The phenomena of brain drain and brain waste, are well documented in Greek research and literature. Covid-19 pandemic was another stroke in an already unbalance economy. Lifelong learning programmes, that are meant to assist not only the working but also the general population to increase social and other skills, as a way of ensuring access to the labour market, are addressed to only a small portion of the population and usually to those who need them the least. The current paper presents the challenges that Active labor market and Lifelong policies in Greece must face in the process of coping with prolonged unemployment, brain drain and brain waste.","PeriodicalId":267363,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Critical Issues","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129403657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Biographical Learning\" reloaded. Theoretical grounding of a challenging appoach","authors":"P. Alheit","doi":"10.12681/aeci.30008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12681/aeci.30008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. This article discusses an apparently ‘outdated’ concept of thinking about learning within the lifespan. Obviously, the term ‘biographical learning’ has been replaced by the label of ‘lifelong learning’. In a first section, this position is critically examined and the importance of the biography for all learning experiences is emphasised. In a second step of argumentation, it is conceptually specified what the peculiarity of biographical learning actually is. The specifity of this learning concept can only be understood from a biographical perspective through the dimensions of ‘temporality’, ‘contextuality’ and ‘reflexivity’. The concluding third part introduces the concept of ‘biographicity’ and proposes a theoretical understanding of the complex biographical learning idea using the ‘grammar metaphor’ from language theory.","PeriodicalId":267363,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Critical Issues","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129552896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}