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Significant adult education artefacts

Author/s: Dr Alan Arnott, Dr Alan Davies, Michael Newman, Sally Thompson and Dr Peter Willis

Edition: Volume 50, Number 3, November 2010

Summary: We asked a number of people in adult learning to write a short essay on a significant book, article, artefact or media creation that they had experienced relating to adult education/learning sometime in the last 50 years, reflecting on what impact it made on them and their adult educational ideas and practices. All the respondents are long-time adult education practitioners, who also have had, or currently hold, positions of significance in the Association. Here are their responses.

Keywords: adult learning, artefacts, impact, ideas, practices

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This article is part of AJAL, Volume 50_3. The entire volume is available in .pdf for purchase here.

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Diversity and excellence: prompts from the history of the tertiary education sector

Author/s: Francesca Beddie

Edition: Volume 50, Number 3, November 2010

Summary: In 2010, fifty years after the establishment of the association now called Adult Learning Australia (ALA), the association still faces the dilemma about how to sell its message that adult learning matters. The dilemma is one of philosophy: in the nineteenth century, it was liberalism versus utilitarianism; in the mid-twentieth, the instrumental versus cultural; today, the dichotomy is couched in terms such as ‘social inclusion’ versus ‘productivity’.

Keywords: adult learning, relevance, liberalism, utilitarianism, social inclusion, productivity

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Adult learning in educational tourism

Author/s: Tim Pitman, Sue Broomhall, Joanne McEwan and Elzbieta Majocha

Edition: Volume 50, Number 2, July 2010

Summary: This article explores notions of learning in the niche market sector of educational tourism, with a focus on organised recreational tours that promote a structured learning experience as a key feature. It analyses the qualitative findings of surveys and interviews with a cross-section of educational tourism providers in Australia, their lifelong-learning client markets and Australian academic scholars participating in this sector. The paper examines the differing perceptions of providers, participants and academics to what they expect from such tours, what constitutes learning within them and how particularly adult learning occurs through them.

Keywords: educational tourism, recreational tours, perceptions, adult learning

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Learning to manage: Transformative outcomes of competency-based training

Author/s: Steven Hodge

Edition: Volume 51, Number 3, November 2011

Summary: Transformative learning theory is a dominant approach to understanding adult learning. The theory addresses the way our perspectives on the world, others and ourselves can be challenged and transformed in our ongoing efforts to make sense of the world. Continue reading “Learning to manage: Transformative outcomes of competency-based training”

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Educational alternatives in food production, knowledge and consumption: The public pedagogies of Growing Power and Tsyunhehkw^

Author/s: Pierre Walter

Edition: Volume 52, Number 3, November 2012

Summary: This paper examines how two sites of adult learning in the food movement create educational alternatives to the dominant U.S. food system. Continue reading “Educational alternatives in food production, knowledge and consumption: The public pedagogies of Growing Power and Tsyunhehkw^”