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Transitions are Here. Is Adult Education Ready?

Transitions are Here. Is Adult Education Ready? UP FRONT Transitions Are Here. Is Adult Education Ready? some special burdens thge students wn transition teams in order to assist T he current recession reminds us rograms to develop new skdls do not carry and suggests roles that ABUGED :amen in the move towd self- constantly that life situations can evelop the self-iniage that they art instructors can play in helping them 8iciency. change rapidly and dramatically. Work nemployable. They find employment become sudl students. Kime’s article, “pdult Education of ers are suddenly without jobs; in all lore quickly even if their class were “Hastages,” written by a student ervicemembers in Transition: a Policy probability those jobs will never return. lot for specific job slulls. in kton’s proiect IndependenQ k’n ‘erspxtive,” notes that the “transition- New jobs requiring new skills will re- Today, then, we are living in an gram at Hod Community College, ig servicemember is a vety special place them. ra of dramatic and often traumatic Columbia, Maryland, provides moving dult student.” He wonders why only The military is experiencing severe hange and transition. In addition to evidence of the importance of educa- 0 percent of new veterans have taken cutbacks and personnel are kig tandad events such as marriage, tion in the transition to positive self- ollege coupsg under their GI Bill released early. Mast are not adequately ivom, retirement, and death, transi- image. A prepared for civilian work. Helping wl- ons come in a variety of euphemisms: ligbility. He suggests specific mm- fare mipients becoine self-sufficient wndations for improving the educa- ownsiziig, retrenchment, drawdown, on and employability of these new often requires increased literacy skills structuring, and rightsizing among and job slulls. Supporting such families Ithers. Whatever the term, some form eterans. Felmingham-Birdlong, in Imhg with health and child care requires If transition is inevitable in our lives. 1 the ex-offender in transition, detads higher paying jobs. Prisons are so over- n mast of these transitions, education crowded that only the mast dangerous nay make the d~erence between suc- criminals can be retained, others are es and failure. released without training. Vietnam and Some educators in Britain have long krt storm veterans return to civilian kried what they term “frontend“ life with new and oftendistuhhg ducatiomntinuous schooling to rienm. special counseling and train- he age of 2@mmethmg to pqare for ing are required for some of these 1 lie’s career. Today, most have h veterans as well as for persons former- 3r more careers (not jobs) in their life- ly in mental health facilities. Many times. Thus, argue these educators, from both group are now among ‘intermittent” education is more the homeless appropriate. They feel that anyone who Topics for theme sections Much has been written about transi- becomes disenchanted or unsucQssful tions. C.B. Aslanian and H. M. Brickell in school should be able to drop out Septemk/oCtober in Amaicam in nansition (1980) temporarily to work until a need is real- illustrate that transitions, often trig- lzed for additional education. At that Politics gered by a sudden life mt or condi- point they reenter schmhg, supported tion, may present that opportunity by a combination of busings, govern- (sometimg referred to as a “teachable ment, or personal funding. In the Unit- moment”) when individuals are most ed States, the closest to this concept is qtive to instruction and change. adult education’s promise of “life- Marriage, divorce, the empty nest, pm long learning” @zuuryLFebruaty motion, unemployment, and death are Just as the pace of chang is acceler- The Instructor as Practitioner a few of these events. Roger huld of ating and diverslfylng, so must adult U.C.L.k, states in the film, Deue[op- education became more innovative in menl ofthe Adult and his book 7Fam- meeting the various needs of persons March/Aprll fbrrmtkm: Gmtb and Chnge in in transition. In the Transitions section Transfer of Learning AdUb fjj! (1978) that “crises” can of Ariult hrning, we sample those happen any time. They often change needs and innovations. MayJune our entire lives and MIZ be the best In “ABEA Integd Part of thing that happ to us. Personal Transition” Keeton and Park- Economic Development A study by the Employment Develop er portray the role of transition in the ment Department in California found lives of adult learners in two special July/August that persons who have last their jobs programs Homeless and JOBS (welfare tend to become increasingly unemploy- Partnerships basic skills program) participants in able as time passes. For many reasons kton’s ABE programs tell stories of a person who has been unemployed for how their lives are “turning around’ a number of months seems to project through participation in adult educa- unemployability. what is fascinating is tion activities. The authors conclude that individuals attendmg educational that adult educators must develop their May/June 1993 A 7 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adult Learning SAGE

Transitions are Here. Is Adult Education Ready?

Adult Learning , Volume 4 (5): 1 – May 1, 1993
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UP FRONT Transitions Are Here. Is Adult Education Ready? some special burdens thge students wn transition teams in order to assist T he current recession reminds us rograms to develop new skdls do not carry and suggests roles that ABUGED :amen in the move towd self- constantly that life situations can evelop the self-iniage that they art instructors can play in helping them 8iciency. change rapidly and dramatically. Work nemployable. They find employment become sudl students. Kime’s article, “pdult Education of ers are suddenly without jobs; in all lore quickly even if their class were “Hastages,” written by a student ervicemembers in Transition: a Policy probability those jobs will never return. lot for specific job slulls. in kton’s proiect IndependenQ k’n ‘erspxtive,” notes that the “transition- New jobs requiring new skills will re- Today, then, we are living in an gram at Hod Community College, ig servicemember is a vety special place them. ra of dramatic and often traumatic Columbia, Maryland, provides moving dult student.” He wonders why only The military is experiencing severe hange and transition. In addition to evidence of the importance of educa- 0 percent of new veterans have taken cutbacks and personnel are kig tandad events such as marriage, tion in the transition to positive self- ollege coupsg under their GI Bill released early. Mast are not adequately ivom, retirement, and death, transi- image. A prepared for civilian work. Helping wl- ons come in a variety of euphemisms: ligbility. He suggests specific mm- fare mipients becoine self-sufficient wndations for improving the educa- ownsiziig, retrenchment, drawdown, on and employability of these new often requires increased literacy skills structuring, and rightsizing among and job slulls. Supporting such families Ithers. Whatever the term, some form eterans. Felmingham-Birdlong, in Imhg with health and child care requires If transition is inevitable in our lives. 1 the ex-offender in transition, detads higher paying jobs. Prisons are so over- n mast of these transitions, education crowded that only the mast dangerous nay make the d~erence between suc- criminals can be retained, others are es and failure. released without training. Vietnam and Some educators in Britain have long krt storm veterans return to civilian kried what they term “frontend“ life with new and oftendistuhhg ducatiomntinuous schooling to rienm. special counseling and train- he age of 2@mmethmg to pqare for ing are required for some of these 1 lie’s career. Today, most have h veterans as well as for persons former- 3r more careers (not jobs) in their life- ly in mental health facilities. Many times. Thus, argue these educators, from both group are now among ‘intermittent” education is more the homeless appropriate. They feel that anyone who Topics for theme sections Much has been written about transi- becomes disenchanted or unsucQssful tions. C.B. Aslanian and H. M. Brickell in school should be able to drop out Septemk/oCtober in Amaicam in nansition (1980) temporarily to work until a need is real- illustrate that transitions, often trig- lzed for additional education. At that Politics gered by a sudden life mt or condi- point they reenter schmhg, supported tion, may present that opportunity by a combination of busings, govern- (sometimg referred to as a “teachable ment, or personal funding. In the Unit- moment”) when individuals are most ed States, the closest to this concept is qtive to instruction and change. adult education’s promise of “life- Marriage, divorce, the empty nest, pm long learning” @zuuryLFebruaty motion, unemployment, and death are Just as the pace of chang is acceler- The Instructor as Practitioner a few of these events. Roger huld of ating and diverslfylng, so must adult U.C.L.k, states in the film, Deue[op- education became more innovative in menl ofthe Adult and his book 7Fam- meeting the various needs of persons March/Aprll fbrrmtkm: Gmtb and Chnge in in transition. In the Transitions section Transfer of Learning AdUb fjj! (1978) that “crises” can of Ariult hrning, we sample those happen any time. They often change needs and innovations. MayJune our entire lives and MIZ be the best In “ABEA Integd Part of thing that happ to us. Personal Transition” Keeton and Park- Economic Development A study by the Employment Develop er portray the role of transition in the ment Department in California found lives of adult learners in two special July/August that persons who have last their jobs programs Homeless and JOBS (welfare tend to become increasingly unemploy- Partnerships basic skills program) participants in able as time passes. For many reasons kton’s ABE programs tell stories of a person who has been unemployed for how their lives are “turning around’ a number of months seems to project through participation in adult educa- unemployability. what is fascinating is tion activities. The authors conclude that individuals attendmg educational that adult educators must develop their May/June 1993 A 7

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