The group demonstrated adult education programs and organizations they studied in assignments 1 through 4. They explored leading adult educators like Booker T. Washington and Paulo Freire, and behaviorist perspectives of Skinner and Watson. They analyzed hearing health and ISHA programs. They also studied The Highlander Folk School and UNESCO, which aimed to educate underprivileged adults. Through these assignments, the group learned that adult education takes many forms based on learner needs, and serves to empower participants through continually changing approaches.

1. Project Demonstration
Group 1
Lyndsey Hildenbrand
Amanda Campbell
Dan Royer

2. Summarize What You Have Done
In Assignments 1 through 4

3. Semester Summary
• We have evolved through our
investigation of:
– Leading adult educators
– Adult education programs
– Adult organizations

4. Leading Adult Educators
• Booker T. Washington
• Paulo Freire
• B.F. Skinner
• John Watson

5. Skinner & Watson
• Explored due to their current use in the field
of Audiology
• Behaviorist Perspective
• Believed that human behavior is affected by
environmental/external forces
– Based on this, believed that this could be used to
motivate humans to respond in specific ways

6. Washington & Freire
• Both Worked to educate minorities
• Freire
– Worked on illiteracy in Brazil
• Washington
– African American education post-slavery

7. Adult Education Programs
• Focused on audiology related-programs:
1. Hearing Health Fair
- Held at Irvington Methodist Church in Indianapolis
- Teaches church members about hearing loss, testing,
and treatment
1. Indiana Speech Language Hearing Association
(ISHA)
- Educational organization for students and professionals
- Aids and promotes best practices in the fields of
audiology and speech pathology.

8. Adult Education
Ogranizations
• Focused on organizations who worked to educate
those underprivileged
1. The Highlander Folk School
- Founded in 1932
- Helped provide education and training to adults in poverty
- Influence on the Civil Rights movement and helped promote
desegregation
1. United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural
Organizations (UNESCO)
- Founded in 1946
- Education of underprivileged adults
- Helped build peace and eradicate poverty through
education
- Promotion of the idea that all have the right to education-
any race, age, gender, socioeconomic status

9. Based on Assignments 2-4: What
have you learned About Adult
Education

10. Initial Views of Adult
Education
• Our group initially had varying
knowledge on the field of adult
education
• Assignments 2-4 helped us explore the
many roles of adult education, from the
past to the present

11. Leading Adult Educators
• These adult educators helped create a
foundation for adult education
• Illustrated the different ways that adults
learn so that programs could be tailored
uniquely to them

12. Unique Adult Education
Programs
• Adult Education occurs in a multitude of
environments
• Many of the programs we focused on
used a group style to facilitate learning
• Adult Education can cover a range of
topics, if desired by learners or
educators

13. Important Adult Education
Organizations
• Actively support and continue to change
the face of adult education
• Has a global impact on adult education
• Meant to better the lives of the
underprivileged

14. What Have We Learned
• Adult Education takes on various roles
in the content it provides, and the
reasoning for the courses
• The face of adult education is
continually changing
• Serves to empower participating adult
learners

15. Image of Adult Education in the Future

16. In the 21st Century
• Change will be constant
• The role of adult education will continue
to grow in importance
• High demand jobs demand technically
competent people
• Not only technically competent but
culturally sensitive

17. The Participants Will
Change
• The demographic of the population will
continue to change
• A changing of the guard from the
Western European dominance to a
more diverse worldview is happening
• A truly multicultural worldview will
emerge which not only tolerates but
values a diverse group of opinions

18. The future image of adult
education
• Includes a highly developed sense of
professionalism about the way we
practice adult education
– Highly developed ethical standards while
seeking to advance the understanding of
adult learners
• Avoids the elitism of professionalization

19. Flexibility is a Must
• Not only flexibility in the way we view
the world, but in the way education has
been traditionally delivered
• Education must focus on the needs and
concerns of those whom it served
• Individuals will be valued as delivery will
not be locked into one concept

20. Adult Education is
Empowered
• Empowerment in Adult Education takes
place when it serves to empower the
least powerful in society
• Education serves to break to bonds of
oppression by allowing a greater
number of individuals to democratically
participate in society