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Discussion 1 – Week 8

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The Lumina Foundation and the AERC

Important Note: Please take note of the initial posting due date for this Discussion as it differs from your Discussion assignments for the other seven weeks of this course.Effective adult educators stay abreast of relevant issues and recent developments in the field. There are a number of organizations and websites that can help you stay current and explore topics of interest to you. This week you are introduced to two of them. Follow the instructions below to complete this Discussion:

Spend some time exploring these two highly informative websites: Lumina Foundation and Adult Education Research Conference (AERC).
Navigate to Lumina Foundation Multimedia Newsroom and AERC Conference Proceedings Archive, spending time exploring the vast selection of content offered at no charge.
Choose one article, video, or conference presentation from either site to review.
Carefully review the resource you have chosen and take notes.

By Tuesday:

Post a summary of the issue being addressed in your chosen resource, and explain why you think it is important to the field of adult learning. Be sure to include the title of the resource you chose, and include the URL where it can be found so that your classmates can locate it easily.

150 words, 2 references

This is the learner’s Journal

Learner’s Journal: Entry #5

In this journal entry, reflect on your learning in this course by responding to the following questions:

How has the material covered in this course expanded your thinking about possible career opportunities that you may not have considered before?
This course has touched on many areas in the field of adult education. In what areas would you like to do additional exploration on your own? Where will you begin?

Provide examples from your personal experience and/or citations from relevant sources to support your response.

Note: Please continue to keep a running of list any vocabulary, acronyms, scholars’ names, etc. that are new to you or that you think are especially important.

(Assignment length: 1 page), 2 references

submit as two separate documents

APA formatting

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The selected resource is the article “Adult Learning for Active Citizenship: Exploring Learning Pathways around Citizenship and Participation in Community Organizations and Governance” written by Gouthro (2009). The article illustrates how adult learning can help foster citizenship by allowing adult learners to participate in community activities and governance. From the article, it is established that comprehending the specific factors that encourage adult learners to participate in a wide range of learning endeavors comprises tracing interconnected and multiple complicated factors. Informal and formal educations contexts are determined as …

564 words APA