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Michelson, Elana – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
This article provides a critical analysis of adult educators' cherished notion of "experiential learning" and of the ways in which our assumptions limit our ability to respond effectively to a world of "truthiness" and "alternative facts."
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Experiential Learning, Criticism, Propaganda
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Szymanski, Sharon; Wells, Richard – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
This article proposes a "pedagogy of popular political economy" in a Labor Studies program to counter a historical legacy of racism and draw on students' respect for expertise to help them see through the distortions of the day.
Descriptors: Labor, Labor Education, Labor Economics, Racial Bias
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Walker, Wayland – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
This article queries how one type of human difference--alterity, the experience of multiple distinct consciousnesses, or "alters," by one person--is pathologized in American culture. This experience is inscribed as a mental illness, labeled now as dissociative identity disorder (DID) and formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD). In…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Popular Culture, Mental Disorders, Adult Students