This digest explores issues of culture and culturally relevant practice in adult education programs and suggests strategies for educators. It highlights studies that identify issues of cultural difference, and provides recommendations for making the practice of adult education more culturally relevant.
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This page provides a compilation of resources on varied topics relevant to adult educators. Although the number of research studies focusing on adult learners is limited, the items listed in the "Research" category are evidence-based or recognized as "promising practices" by federal and state agencies.
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CALPRO Research Brief: Supporting Student Success Through Social and Emotional Learning
This brief explores the application of the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) principles and related frameworks in adult education. Incorporation of SEL holds great promise in empowering adult learners with the skills needed for personal growth, career success, and active participation in society. It further examines how educators' overall well-being through their own development of SEL skills benefits both the educa ...
JUNE 24, 2024
Resource type: Research Publications
AUDIENCE: Administrators , All teacher types
Topic: Student Engagement and SupportÂ
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Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching in Adult Education
Authors: Sachiko Oates, Marina Kravtsova, Julie Shaw, Suman Mudunuri
This evidence-to-action brief defines Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching in the adult education context and explores relevant literature. It further examines why incorporating CLRT is critical to California adult educators and provides practical application ideas and resources for implementation. Examples from the adult education field in California are included for inspiration and further exploration of the topic.
Increasing Engagement and Student Persistence Through Distance - and Blended-Learning Models; What the Research Says and Which Practice Work
Authors: Anthony Burik, Mariann Fedele-McLeod, Debalina Ganguli, Martin D. Griffin, Hilary Iserman, Nicole Jordan, Stephanie Kriebel, Yecsenia Lorenzo, Courtney McMahon, Katie Callahan Neginskiy, Penny Pearson, Theresa Petersen, Kristi Reyes, Thoibi N. Rublaitus, Shannon Swain, Lila Young, Carolyn Zachry
This evidence to action brief presents recent research on distance learning in adult education and provides an important contemporaneous account of how California adult education rose to meet the challenge of continuing to serve adult learners during the pandemic. This brief captures a snapshot of the current state of practice and evidence, including identified challenges and corresponding best practices. Additionally, it looks towards the future as adult education continues to address the identified challenges of distance learning in innovative ways, as well as to harness the ample benefits and potential for students.
Distance Education and E-Learning: New Options for Adult Basic and English Language Education
Authors: Susan Imel, The Ohio State University, and Erik Jacobson, CALPRO, May 2006
Electronic learning, also known as e–learning, is characterized by the use of electronic technology to support learning and deliver instruction. E-learning can take place in conventional classrooms where learners and teachers are present physically, but it is commonly thought of as a model in which teachers and students are separated by time and/or space. This brief reviews ways that e–learning is used in distance education and provides recommendations for programs interested in this approach.
Building on Foundations for Success: Guidelines for Improving Adult Mathematics Instruction
Authors: MPR Associates, April 2011
This report builds on the recommendations made by the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (NMAP) in 2008 for improving mathematics education and learning among K–12 students and provides updates that reflect adults’ goals in seeking basic skills instruction. Designed to be a blueprint for future work by policymakers, administrators, and researchers in the field of adult education, these guidelines outline the mathematics content adults need to know, strategies for teaching adults this content, and the preparation of adult education instructors who teach mathematics.