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Zhu, Yidan – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
In this conceptual paper, I delve into the urgent necessity of reshaping adult education and advocate for the adoption of critical feminist theory as a foundational framework for the examination of adult education. Based on the theories of adult education and critical feminist theory, I argue that a critical feminist lens could help educators…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Adult Education, Critical Theory, Feminism
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Schmidt, Steven W.; English, Leona M.; Carr-Chellman, Ali – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, through trial and error and sharing stories of successes and failures, have resulted in progress in the quest to resume what we refer to as normal or regular college life for students, faculty, and staff. However, it is doubtful that we will ever get back to the exact same situation that we were in…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, College Students
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Bowers, Chet A. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
This paper describes the key principles of an ecojustice approach to adult education. The author describes the cultural roots of the ecological crisis, the difference between ecological and individual intelligence and the linguistic colonization of the present by the past. The dangers of an overreliance on print are described and the need for a…
Descriptors: Ecology, Justice, Educational Change, Adult Education
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Drayton, Brendaly; Rosser-Mims, Dionne; Schwartz, Joni; Guy, Talmadge C. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This concluding chapter discusses the important contribution Black men's voices have made and can make to adult education theory and practice. Particular emphasis is placed on troubling the various factors that contribute to the silencing of those voices.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Males, African American Influences
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Wheelan, Belle S. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This chapter addresses educational policy as a force that contemporary adult education would be required to reckon with from the point of view of an accreditor. It identifies the issues and projects shifts that are currently taking place in higher education policy at the national, state, and regional levels.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Accreditation (Institutions)