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Beyond Price Comparisons: Towards a More Critical Consumer Education for Adults Through Informal Sites of Learning

Beyond Price Comparisons: Towards a More Critical Consumer Education for Adults Through Informal... Beyond Price Comparisons: Towards a More Critical Consumer Education for Adults Through Informal Sites of Learning ver a decade ago, Oduran (1993) of its traditional technical focus, and into argued that consumer education more critical realms where learners develop was an emerging frontier of adult O " a different relationship to the marketplace in education. While the Adult Performance Level which they identify unquestioned assumptions (APL ) project in the 1970s sparked some and challenge the status of existing structures interest in consumer and life skills within [such as consumer capitalism] as natural" adult basic education and English as a second (Ozanne & Murray, 1995, p. 522). language (Lankshear, 1993; Levine, 1986; Consumer education is an important and Sandlin, 2000), and while this push has been exciting arena that adult educators in a variety II I seen more recently in welfare-to-work of settings could incorporate into their existing education and job preparation programs, the curricula. In addition, adult educators could broader field of adult education has been become aware of and more involved in these almost silent on this issue. A review of adult more informal sites, thus bringing recognition education journals and conference to these sites as legitimate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adult Learning SAGE

Beyond Price Comparisons: Towards a More Critical Consumer Education for Adults Through Informal Sites of Learning

Adult Learning , Volume 15 (1-2): 4 – Jan 1, 2004

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SAGE
Copyright
© 2004 American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
ISSN
1045-1595
eISSN
2162-4070
DOI
10.1177/104515950401500108
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Beyond Price Comparisons: Towards a More Critical Consumer Education for Adults Through Informal Sites of Learning ver a decade ago, Oduran (1993) of its traditional technical focus, and into argued that consumer education more critical realms where learners develop was an emerging frontier of adult O " a different relationship to the marketplace in education. While the Adult Performance Level which they identify unquestioned assumptions (APL ) project in the 1970s sparked some and challenge the status of existing structures interest in consumer and life skills within [such as consumer capitalism] as natural" adult basic education and English as a second (Ozanne & Murray, 1995, p. 522). language (Lankshear, 1993; Levine, 1986; Consumer education is an important and Sandlin, 2000), and while this push has been exciting arena that adult educators in a variety II I seen more recently in welfare-to-work of settings could incorporate into their existing education and job preparation programs, the curricula. In addition, adult educators could broader field of adult education has been become aware of and more involved in these almost silent on this issue. A review of adult more informal sites, thus bringing recognition education journals and conference to these sites as legitimate

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Published: Jan 1, 2004

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