{"title":"Book Review: Remaking Communities and Adult Learning: Social and Community-Based Learning, New Forms of Knowledge and Action for Change, Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (Vol. 11) by Rob Evans, Ewa Kurantowicz, & Emilio Lucio-Villegas (Eds.)","authors":"X. Coulter, A. Mandell","doi":"10.1177/07417136231181886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136231181886","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47287,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44394540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Bohonos, Chaddrick D. James-Gallaway, ArCasia D. James‐Gallaway, Francena F. L. Turner
{"title":"Black History in Adult Education in the United States: A Historical Review and Historiographical Critique","authors":"J. Bohonos, Chaddrick D. James-Gallaway, ArCasia D. James‐Gallaway, Francena F. L. Turner","doi":"10.1177/07417136231180571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136231180571","url":null,"abstract":"This article pushes towards the integration of the history of Black Adult Education (AE) into the broader history of AE literature and it contributes a critique of the field's general omissions and misrepresentations of Black history. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to critique the white-dominated history of AE texts and (2) to provide a historiographical essay that highlights works focused on the Black history of AE. In doing so, we offer a historical counternarrative rooted in the secondary historical literature that addresses the history of Black education. Ultimately, this paper critiques historiographical essays focused on AE, situates our discussion within debates on approaches to race in AE, and revisits works of Black AE from within the field as well as key works by educational historians that address issues related to Black AE.","PeriodicalId":47287,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45478225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ekaterina Tour, Edwin Creely, P. Waterhouse, Xuan Pham, Michael Henderson, Mary Wallace
{"title":"Navigating Challenging Digital Literacy Practices: The Settlement Experiences of Adults from Migrant and Refugee Backgrounds","authors":"Ekaterina Tour, Edwin Creely, P. Waterhouse, Xuan Pham, Michael Henderson, Mary Wallace","doi":"10.1177/07417136231180867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136231180867","url":null,"abstract":"Digital literacies are critical for adults from migrant and refugee backgrounds as they settle in a new country. However, institutions, leaders, and teachers often feel uncertain about how to teach digital literacies. Using the notions of digital literacy practices and assemblages, this article reports on a qualitative case study and explores how 30 adults from migrant and refugee backgrounds navigated challenging digital literacy practices related to settlement in Australia. This research found that to deal with challenges, the participants brought together different personal, social, material, symbolic, temporal, and spatial resources. However, sometimes the required resources were not available, which constrained the participants’ practices. Some participants were aware of the need to find new solutions but they often did not know how this might be done. In contrast, some participants were reluctant to take a risk. The article concludes with implications for EAL practice by suggesting strengths-based pedagogies for digital literacies.","PeriodicalId":47287,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41357137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Plantation politics and campus rebellions: Power, diversity, and the emancipatory struggle in higher education by Williams, B. C., Squire, D. D., & Tuitt, F. A.","authors":"A. Shea Kuykendoll","doi":"10.1177/07417136231181821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136231181821","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47287,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43591388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures by Anke Schwittay","authors":"Ann Hill, M. Appel, A. Fuentes, Monty Nixon","doi":"10.1177/07417136231181887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136231181887","url":null,"abstract":"through participatory and relational community education. Progressive educators would argue that the flaw in many communities and Freirean-based civic and emancipatory education programs is a failure to understand the critical importance of student agency in learning. As Biesta (following the lead of John Dewey) has often pointed out, teachers may guide students in certain directions, but in a truly democratic society, they must allow students in consultation with each other to come to their own conclusions. If students, whether young or adult, cannot be so trusted, if teachers, whether in formal or informal contexts, feel compelled to tell them how and what to think (as Biesta, 2017 notes are inherent in the Freirean model), they are, in effect, teaching them to follow the direction of authorities. In the final chapter, the editors acknowledged that none of the examples of community learning presented had resulted in any significant societal change. However, the pockets of humanity that were often vividly presented offered them signs of hope, which in our view are likely to bear fruit only through changes in practice in both formal and community education. As cited in several chapters, a UNESCO report (Delors, 1996) asserted that education for democracy must teach students “how to learn, to do, to be, and to live together,” which leads us to ask: Is it so impossible to imagine that our schools (starting from the earliest years) could teach people to become self-directed learners, to reflect upon who they are, and to respect, value, and work with those holding diverse world views? Is there any reason we adult educators could not also champion that kind of curriculum for our students?","PeriodicalId":47287,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45366767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Vietnam's Vocational Training Project for Rural Laborers","authors":"C. Tang, Hoai Than Nguyen","doi":"10.1177/07417136231172180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136231172180","url":null,"abstract":"This study focused on evaluating the project on vocational training for rural laborers in Vietnam with respect to its effectiveness in employment creation and poverty reduction among rural laborers. The investigation took the form of a case study; official policy statistics, a survey of 300 project participants and interviews with eight vocational teachers were collected to triangulate the data. Our findings found that while the project met its initial objectives of increasing the trained laborer rate, creating jobs, and reducing poverty, Vietnam's traditional culture in addition to a lack of funding and vocational training poses potential obstacles to further increases in rural laborers’ income and industrial transformation. In contrast to previous work, this study incorporated multidimensional poverty criteria with three sources of data from different stakeholders’ perspectives to provide a more comprehensive and realistic picture of the long-term poverty reduction effect of the vocational training policy. Further implication for policy practice and policy evaluation method were discussed.","PeriodicalId":47287,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49243796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We Had a Good Thing Going: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Vocational ESL in the United States","authors":"Katherine Hardin","doi":"10.1177/07417136231168381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136231168381","url":null,"abstract":"Vocational English as a Second Language (VESL) is a form of adult language education that teaches communicative skills in the context of preparing learners for a particular vocation. Despite their pedagogical and logistical benefits for adult language learners, such programs are uncommon today. This literature review traces the emergence and disappearance of VESL in the United States through a corpus study. It then explains these trends by analyzing second language acquisition research and policies related to adult education. It finds that VESL remains a promising approach that fell out of favor due to welfare and workforce policy reforms in the 1990s. It concludes by arguing for the continued relevance of VESL today and the need for adult educators to be vigilant of unintended policy impacts on their programs.","PeriodicalId":47287,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41993638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. St. Clair, Edith Gnanadass, Dianne Ramdeholl, Lisa R. Merriweather
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"R. St. Clair, Edith Gnanadass, Dianne Ramdeholl, Lisa R. Merriweather","doi":"10.1177/07417136231164007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136231164007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47287,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47516615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attitudes Matter: Examining How Teaching Strategies for Attitudinal Change Help Adults Value Reflection and Calibrate Their Reflective Thinking","authors":"Kevin M. Roessger","doi":"10.1177/07417136231165007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136231165007","url":null,"abstract":"Developing adults’ reflective thinking habits is an aim of adult education, but the best way to do it has been overlooked. Common strategies communicate the skills and knowledge needed to reflect while providing practice opportunities. Yet research indicates that reflective habits are comprised of not only skills and knowledge but also of attitudes toward reflection. This study investigated whether attitudinal change strategies in a reflective thinking workshop induced cognitive dissonance by helping adults appreciate reflection and calibrate their reflective behavior. Participants were randomly assigned to a skills-based or skills-based plus attitudinal change workshop. Pre-post measures of learners’ need for and engagement in reflection were taken. Multivariate analysis of covariance revealed that attitudinal change strategies induced dissonance by increasing the need for reflection while decreasing perceived engagement in reflection. Exclusively skills-based strategies failed to affect the need for reflection but increased perceived engagement in reflection, creating overconfidence. Implications for research and practice are offered.","PeriodicalId":47287,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45494789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Situated Learning and Transnational Labor Migration: The Case of Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program.","authors":"J Adam Perry","doi":"10.1177/07417136221095480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07417136221095480","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Grounded in an analysis of interviews with migrant farm workers in Canada, this article explores how learning in the everyday contexts of temporary transnational labor migration is implicated in both migrant identity formation and the social reproduction of an established and growing labor migration regime. The article focuses on thinking through how workers negotiate the intergenerational workplace tensions that permeate life in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. The findings suggest that through their sustained participation in the everyday social practices that develop through dormitory-living, transnational laborers learn to <i>become</i> migrant workers. This formation of migrant worker identities in turn contributes to the reproduction of the social relations that support the ongoing practice of circulatory labor migration in the Canadian agricultural industry.</p>","PeriodicalId":47287,"journal":{"name":"Adult Education Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9607941/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40457601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}