Adult Education Context of Learning in

Social Action

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EDUC6303

By Maricia Silvera-Batson

Adult learning

Any where

Any place

Any time

Types of Adult Education

Formal

Non Formal

Informal

Ball, J. (2013) Avaaz: can online campaigning reinvent politics? The guardian online, Retrieved online on 15th January 2013.

Choudry, A. (2009) Learning in social action: knowledge production in social movements, McGill Journal of Education (Online) 44, No 1, 5-17.

Hoskins, B. & Deakin Crick, R.(2010) Competences for learning to learn and active citizenship: different currencies or two sides of the same coin? European Journal of Education 45, No. 1, 2010, Part II, 121-137.

Social ActionADULT LEARNING

For the purpose of social change

Ollis, T. (2011) Learning in social action: the informal and social learning dimensions of circumstantial and lifelong activists, Australian Journal of Adult Learning 51, No. 2, 248-268.

Smolka, A. L. B. (2001) Social practice and social change: activity theory in perspective, Human Development 44, No. 6, 362-367.

Scott, S.M. (2006) A way of seeing: Transformation for a new century, in T. Fenwick, T. Nesbit & B. Spencer (Eds.), Contexts of adult education: Canadian perspectives. Toronto: Thompson Education Publishing, Inc. Pg. 153-163.

Social ActionADULT LEARNING

The Learner

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Social ActionADULT LEARNING

Transformation

Social ActionADULT LEARNING

Competencies

CivicThe sum of the individual

learning outcomes necessary for an active citizen. (P. 9)

Learning to learnThe complex mix of knowledge,

skills, values, attitudes, that support a person becoming a

life long learner. (p.9)

Social ActionADULT LEARNING

Exposure

ConnectAwareness

Action

Social ActionADULT LEARNING

Culture & History

Social ActionADULT LEARNING

engagement

participation

involvement

immersion

Social ActionADULT LEARNING

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Activist Participation

Circumstantial

Life Long

Circumstantial

• Skills are learned rapidly• Activism

happens through

circumstance

Life Long

• Skills are learned over

time• Activism

happens through full immersion

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“Education is the most powerful tool you can

use to change the world.”

Nelson Mandela