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Adult Education in an Era of “Wicked Problems”

Adult Education in an Era of “Wicked Problems” 872457 ALXXXX10.1177/1045159519872457Adult learningAdult learning research-article2019 Vol. 30 No. 4 ADULT LEARNING Reflection Thomas J. Sork, PhD ’ve been experiencing a growing sense of anxiety world—notwithstanding the defeat of the Equal Rights about the troubled state of the world, the role our Amendment in 1972; and the Watergate scandal—and Iapparent failures as adult educators have played in the growing distrust of political leaders—was still over getting us here, and the lack of coordinated, broad- the horizon—botched burglary in 1972 and Nixon’s based, multidimensional strategies to address a growing resignation in 1974. However, I had learned enough list of “wicked problems.” I’ve been asking myself about history to understand that what I understood as “How are adult educators addressing these complex “progress” is neither unidirectional nor linear and what problems? What should we be doing that we aren’t I considered “progress” had its origins in the social- during this perilous time in human history? economic-cultural context in which I was immersed I entered the field—and a master’s program—as a and the unearned privilege that accrued to me simply novice practitioner in 1970 fresh out of an because of where, when, and to whom I was born. An undergraduate program, awareness of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adult Learning SAGE

Adult Education in an Era of “Wicked Problems”

Sork, Thomas J.
Adult Learning , Volume 30 (4): 4 – Nov 1, 2019
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872457 ALXXXX10.1177/1045159519872457Adult learningAdult learning research-article2019 Vol. 30 No. 4 ADULT LEARNING Reflection Thomas J. Sork, PhD ’ve been experiencing a growing sense of anxiety world—notwithstanding the defeat of the Equal Rights about the troubled state of the world, the role our Amendment in 1972; and the Watergate scandal—and Iapparent failures as adult educators have played in the growing distrust of political leaders—was still over getting us here, and the lack of coordinated, broad- the horizon—botched burglary in 1972 and Nixon’s based, multidimensional strategies to address a growing resignation in 1974. However, I had learned enough list of “wicked problems.” I’ve been asking myself about history to understand that what I understood as “How are adult educators addressing these complex “progress” is neither unidirectional nor linear and what problems? What should we be doing that we aren’t I considered “progress” had its origins in the social- during this perilous time in human history? economic-cultural context in which I was immersed I entered the field—and a master’s program—as a and the unearned privilege that accrued to me simply novice practitioner in 1970 fresh out of an because of where, when, and to whom I was born. An undergraduate program, awareness of

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