“[W]e tend to forget our social roots and emancipatory aims as adult educators. All adult educators, including those primarily engaged in vocational training, need to be competent practitioners and aware of Canadian traditions in adult education.” (Scott, Spencer & Thomas, 1998, p. 13)
Keeping this perspective in mind and drawing on your reading and your own experience, discuss what you think the purposes of adult education should be in the early twenty-first century. Your paper should be an academic essay.
Remember that in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canadian adult educators responded creatively to crises of inclusion, crises of economy, and crises of democracy. Your essay answer should make specific reference to emancipatory movements such as the Antigonish Movement (see Father Jimmy); it should not just focus on distance/online/mobile learning.
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