This interdisciplinary paper is about applying Adult Education methods of learning and teaching to higher education. I argue that higher education students need to be stimulated via interactive methods that improve their motivation and lead them to question the value system/s that exist around them. A Freirean approach as used in the teaching of Adult Literacy and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) was applied to a group of 'elite' students at the University of Birmingham who were taking a language foundation course. As a sociolinguist and ESOL practitioner from a black perspective, I argue that the understanding of concepts of language and racism, imperialism and social class can best be facilitated using such an approach. Taking groups of students through this learning journey is challenging for higher education practitioners and the results add a relatively new dimension to the collective reflection on learning and teaching in higher education today.
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Karima Kadi-Hanifi
Power and Authority in the Religious Traditions
A Protestant Perspective
Dorothee Schaper
First, I want to say thank you for the invitation to speak here to you on the ‘holy mountain’ from a Protestant perspective. With me, you get a reverend from the Protestant church in Rhineland. I live with my bicultural family in Cologne and I work for the section on theology, ecumenics and interreligious dialogue at the Melanchthon Academy, the place for Protestant adult education in Cologne. For a long time it has been a place for Christian-Jewish and Christian-Muslim dialogue, and sometimes we succeed to talk as all three together. For example at the evangelischen Kirchentag in Cologne we organised an Abraham center and we signed the Cologne Peace Declaration, signed by representatives from synagogues, mosques and the churches.
The Canonization of Norbert Élias in France
A Critical Perspective
Daniel Gordon
If social science were a sport, Norbert Elias (1897-1990) would receive the award for comeback of the century. He was undistinguished during much of his career: an interminable graduate student in Weimar Germany; a disregarded refugee in Paris in 1933-1935; a prisoner in a British camp for aliens in 1940; an adjunct in adult-education centers during the immediate postwar years in London; a prey to writer’s block with no publications in the 1940s and only a few articles in the 1950s and 1960s. Elias finally got a full-time teaching job at Leicester University in 1954. The extent of his obscurity is evident from an incident at the meeting of the International Sociological Association in 1956. When a Dutch sociologist, Johan Goudsblom, asked to be introduced to him, Elias was astonished: It was the first time anyone had made such a request. In fact, it was the first time Elias had met anyone outside of his personal circle who had read The Civilizing Process.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2002
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 68–94
Sarah Amsler
unmade, state support for adult education in post-welfare-state societies diminishes and the neoliberal university attains hegemonic status around the world, space for critical, non-capitalist and democratic learning is shrinking within universities. In
The Puzzle of The University on Air
A Story of Media and Academia in Israel, 1977–2013
Hagai Boas and Ayelet Baram-Tsabari
University on Air developed a new format for adult education-oriented science communication. With more than 6,000 lectures aired since 1977, the program became one of the pillars of popular science in Israel. Conveying academic content to a lay audience
Hans Karl Peterlini and Mary Brydon-Miller
-Carrasco, Sean Rourke and Jean Bacon describes the development of a blended learning programme integrating CBR and adult education principles. The detailed programme description and lessons learned provide a useful template for other programme planners. And
Lionel Blue
. I sincerely believe that a little more efficiency would not hurt us, but our Victorian nearness at least results in, say, Adult Education having equal importance to the Functions Committee. Being a realist, I do not ask for more. It is this heritage
Meglio di ieri
Educational Films, National Identity and Citizenship in Italy from 1948 to 1968
Anne Bruch
cinemas for at least four days. Each short was usually distributed to 1500 cinemas. These films also formed part of youth and adult education syllabi, and were shown at festivals in public halls and political association assemblies, either on their own or
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 78–90
Critical pedagogy and Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)
Questioning our post-secondary institutions’ investment strategies
David P. Thomas
why and how it might be a good ‘fit’ for the course. Most of the students in the course are not ‘oppressed’ in the way we might imagine from reading Freire’s adult education literature, as they come from relatively affluent or privileged segments of
Introduction
Educational Films: A Historical Review of Media Innovation in Schools
Eckhardt Fuchs, Anne Bruch, and Michael Annegarn-Gläß
Translator : Nicola Watson
Education, the Comité d’Entente des grandes associations internationales, the International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and the World Association for Adult Education. 18 Wilhelm Schremmer, “Ergebnisse der ersten Europäischen
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–13