Adult Health Education

Adolescent Health and Adult Education and Employment: A Systematic Review.

OBJECTIVE Poor health in adolescence has the potential to disrupt education and employment pathways. This study is the first systematic review of the literature examining education and employment outcomes in adulthood of poor adolescent mental and physical health. METHODS We conducted searches using a standardized search protocol in 8 electronic databases: PsycINFO, Medline, Embase, ERIC, Bri...

Health Education and Health Promotion

Working Lives & Adult Education

The case is made for a politically and culturally engaged critical pedagogy of work, placing it within the historical legacy of adult education. Prompted by the Work and Learning Network initiative at the University of Alberta, this paper marks a renewal of the author’s interest in the discourse on education and the world of work. The critical commentaries on education and work in Critical Cros...

Concepts in adult education.

• Indicate to the student that they have a responsibility to learn, • Allow students to check if the programme is being delivered, • Create a framework for assessing the students and evaluating teaching programs. Objectives should be: • Comprehensive, • Dynamic. Essential criteria for the objectives should be that they communicate instructional intent, that they are specific and testable. Instr...

Workplace ‘ learning ’ and adult education

This article reviews diverse representations of learning evident among published accounts of workplace learning across fields such as adult education, human resource development, management and organisation studies. The discussion critically addresses the question of how to mediate a multiplicity of definitional, ideological and purposive orientations. The argument here is that the issue is not...