This document discusses the history and significance of adult and community education. It covers how the field rapidly changed in the 1970s with the civil rights movement and efforts to implement equal education. It profiles some influential early leaders in adult education like Horace Kallen and Alain Locke. It also describes important adult education organizations from the past like the Coalition of Lifelong Learning and contributions they made. Finally, it shares the author's perspective on how adult education should take a holistic approach and be grounded in learners' lives and cultural backgrounds.

1. Adult / Community Education
Ball State University
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JoAnn Finch

2. The Significance of Adult /
Community Education
• As long as there is a continuance and appreciation of
the multitude of knowledge and reflection on
teaching and learning strategies, there will be an
inclusive learning environment that is appropriate
and provided for all learners.

4. Changing the ways we work with learners,
through our application of more inclusive
learning theories and teaching strategies
will develop not just a road but a free way
into a more equitable future.

5. Education in the 1970s faced rapid
change within the American
communities

6. Upon the development of the civil rights in
education
• Efforts were made to
implement equal school
spending
• Legislate equalities for
minorities, women and
students with
disabilities
• Amendment to the
Adult Education Act
• Teachers gathered
forces to gain better
support from the
government
• Department of
education created

7. Leading Adult Educators
Horace M. Kallen is one of
America's leading social
philosophers, devoted particular
attention to the philosophies of
consumerism, adult education, and
Jewish education.
Alain Locke played an influential
role in identifying, nurturing, and
publishing the works of young
black artists during the New Negro
Movement. His philosophy served
as a strong motivating force in
keeping the energy and passion of
the Movement at the forefront.

8. Contributions
• Horace Kallen
• Democracy Versus the
melting-pot, 1915
• The Liberal spirit, 1948
• Ideals and Experience, 1948
• “Of them Which Say They
are Jews,” 1954
• Alain Locke
• When People Meet: A study of
Race and Culture Contacts,
1942
• The High Cost of prejudice,
1927
• Minorities and the Social Mind,”
1935
• “Pluralism and Ideological
Peace.” 1947

9. Unique Adult Education
Organizations
• The Sacramento Food Bank
and Family Services was
founded by Father Daniel
Madigan. SFBFS is
committed to serving
individuals and families,
dedicated to help individuals
meet daily needs as well as
educational and employment
skills for self-sufficiency and
financial independence.
Sacramento
Food Bank
and Family
Services
Interactive
nutrition
sessions
Basic Health
screening
Edible
gardening
lessons
Clothing
distribution for
Job interviews
and school
uniforms

11. Transition to Teaching
• Created during the George Bush administration
• Teacher certification within a reduced time period
• Relying on experience and expertise
• Academic background

12. Important Adult Education
Organizations
The Coalition of Lifelong
Learning
• The Coalition of Lifelong Learning
Organizations (COLLO), formally
established in 1973, consists of
national associations and groups that
share a common interest in enhancing
the field of lifelong learning, i.e. adult
and continuing education, throughout
the nation. These organizations
represent public schools, institutions
of higher education, industry, labor
groups, and most importantly, the
learners themselves.
Association of Continuing
Higher Education
• The Association for Continuing
Higher Education is dedicated to
promoting lifelong learning and
excellence in continuing higher
education. As an organization of
colleges, universities, and
individuals, we encourage
professional development, research
and exchange of information for its
members and continuing higher
education as a means of enhancing
and improving society.

13. My Perspective of Adult Education
• As adult learning continues to change in a such a dramatic way over the
past decades, so much its approach and techniques. Adult learning was
once viewed as a process of being freed from the oppression of illiteracy, a
means of gaining knowledge and skills, a way to satisfy learner needs, and a
process of critical self-reflection that can lead to transformation. Though
these ideas have not changed, we must identify an outline of more holistic
conceptions of adult intelligence that are grounded in the real lives of
adults of all colors, races, and ethnic backgrounds.
• By beginning where learners and with what they know best, their own
cultural background and setting, adult educators can help learners take
charge of their lives and have an impact on their communities,
neighborhoods and society (Talmadge C. Guy)

14. References
• Merriam, S. B., & Brockett, R. G. (2000). The Profession and Practice of Adult Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Guy, C. Talmadge (1999). Providing Culturally Relevant Adult Education: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass
• The History of Adult Education Act, Retrieved from www.naepdc.org/issues/aeahistort.htm
• Luke, R. A. “The NEA and Adult Education a Historical Review, 1921-1972” Unpublished manuscript, 1991b.
• Kallen, Horace M. Philosophical Issues in Adult Education, Springfield. Illinois; Thomas, C. Charles, 1962 990px, index
• Locke, A. “Frontier of Culture.” In the Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1989.
• Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services, Retrieved from www.sacramentofoodbank.org
• Boston Center for Adult Education, Retrieved from www.dcae.org
• The Coalition of Lifelong Learning. (n.d.) About COLLO, Retrieved form
http://www.thecollo.org/aboutus.php#statements
• Bach, Concerto in D Minor, Adagio, Capital Records. New York