Adult Learning articles from June 2001

Adult Learning archives from June 2001

Reclaiming our roots: spirituality as an integral part of adult learning.
June 22, 2001... After a long hibernation, spirituality is no longer a taboo word in adult education and training. It has been recently reclaimed by some of the very authors who appear in this issue--Elizabeth Tisdell, Cheryl Hunt, Tara Fenwick, and John Dirkx....

The challenges of spirituality in the everyday practice of the adult educator: blurring the boundaries of the personal and the professional.
June 22, 2001... The angst I experience as I begin to write this paper is akin to the angst that I experience in the classroom when I try to bring my spirituality into the classroom. Publicly revealing the personal makes me feel vulnerable. Yet, I cannot ignore...

A way of wellbeing? Approaching spirituality through reflective practice.
June 22, 2001... I have just read an article entitled The Wellbeing Report. It notes: In a brave attempt to... identify the so-called 'building blocks of adult contentment,' Boots recently conducted a major piece of research [...] a...

Critical questions for pedagogical engagement of spirituality.
June 22, 2001... There can be no doubt that we are witnessing in these times an unusual and significant outpouring of deep human longing, expressed in what Charles Taylor (1996) describes as a "wild" explosion of spirituality--from astrology to sacred ecology...

The role of spirituality in culturally relevant and transformative adult education.
June 22, 2001... Spirituality is an important part of human experience. So is culture. Most discussions of spirituality focus on the individual dimension of spirituality. But we believe that there is a cultural dimension to spirituality and a spiritual...

Images, transformative learning and the work of soul.
June 22, 2001... While studying for his GED math test, Mitch became frustrated, threw his pencil, angrily pushed back his chair and remarked, "I can't get this stuff. I would rather be doing pottery. That would be something!" In a course on adult learning,...

Writing as witness: doing justice to participants' testimony.
June 22, 2001... Beth Brant (1994), an Indigenous writer from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario, supplies both title and inspiration for my exploration of writing as witness in the public records of participatory learning and research. My approach...

How leaders cultivate spirituality in the workplace: what the research shows.
June 22, 2001... In the early 1990s, Tom Peters connected spirituality with the workplace and leadership in a negative fashion by saying, When the talk turns to the spiritual side of leadership, I mostly want to run. It should be enough if I...

The power of creating a spiritual learning community. (Personal: reflections).(Management and Organizational Development program at Fresno Pacific University)
June 22, 2001... Can creating a genuine spiritual community among students be a significant way of helping adult learners achieve their goal of obtaining a college degree? I believe so. I define a spiritual learning community as one where students learn to...

Life history narratives prompt new learning.(Learning From Our Lives: Using Educational Biographies with Adults)(Money Management and Home-buying Readiness: Sourcebook for Teachers of ESOL and ABE)(Designing Instruction for Adult Learners)(Book Review)
June 22, 2001... Learning From Our Lives: Using Educational Biographies with Adults, by Pierre Dominice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. ISBN 0-7879-1031-7. Hardcover, 206 pages. Finding an appropriate methodology to assist adult learners in...

Futures.(proposed directions for the field of adult and continuing education)
June 22, 2001... The Fall Adult Learning commentary invited readers to help create a shared vision of desirable future directions for the broad field of adult and continuing education (Knox, 2002b). This inaugural Futures reports progress and encourages...