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In the same breath: Learning, adults with an intellectual disability and the Partner Assisted Learning System

Author: Judy Buckingham, Doctoral candidate, Deakin University

Edition: Volume 45, Number 2, July 2005

Summary:  Since adults with an intellectual disability are accessing not only adult education but the workforce and recreation centres as part of government policies towards greater inclusion, it should be in the interest of educators and workplace trainers to understand more about this particular impairment and its impact on learning. This article considers both intellectual disability, and learning and then describes how these concepts were used to develop the Partner Assisted Learning System – this being the end product of a three year research and development project instigated by Deakin University and Gawith Villa Inc to look for ways to incorporate participatory learning into the everyday experiences of people with an intellectual disability in adult education, recreation and the workplace.

Keywords: intellectual disability, inclusion, impact, learning, Gawith Villa, participatory

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North, south, least, best: geographical location and the thinking styles of Italian university students

Author/s: Francesco Sofo, Michelle Berzins, Cinzia Colapinto and Salvatore Ammirato

Edition: Volume 49, Number 2, July 2009

Summary: There are economic and socio-cultural differences that characterise the north and south of Italy. A stereotype is that university students from rural southern Italy are more disadvantaged and isolated than those from the urban north. Past research has hypothesised that differences in socio-economic status impact on student learning, which is a factor of thinking style. This study set out to explore if university students from a northern and a southern Italian university report markedly different thinking style preferences. Samples of 170 students from the University of Calabria and 263 students from the University of Milan were surveyed using Sofo’s (2005) Thinking Style Inventory. If economic and socio‑cultural differences impact on preferred ways of thinking of university students, the impacts may very well be mediated through various pedagogical or informational methods and communication technology. The results of the study did not produce all the expected differences.

Keywords: Italy, north, south, isolated, socio-economic status, learning, impact, thinking style

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This article is part of AJAL, Volume 49_2. The entire volume is available in .pdf for purchase here.

 

 

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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.