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"Needful Things: Interpreting How Cohort Generational Differences Impact the Servicing of Returning Adult Learners"
Type of Presentation
Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
The session will explore dynamics of cohort generational differences between adult educators and learners, and how differences influence needs, learning, personality, power, and work-ethic in servicing today's returning adult learners.
Target Audience
This session is of interest to those whom are employers, facilitators, teachers of returning adult learners, program planners, and/or adult educators interested in how returning adults, process information and, how these adults grow and change across the life span. Additionally, this session may prove valuable to those interested in workplace diversity, workforce development, shifts in human organizational capital, and in resolving conflict or stereotypes that arise from cohort generational effects as well as entertaining strategies in the management of confirmed cohort generational differences in classrooms, seminars, retreats, workshops, and in the workplace.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to identify and discuss cohort generational differences in terms of people's working lives, cultural lives, civic engagement, sense of community, and dialogue about experiences situated with the experience (s) of adult learning, workplace learning, education, and training. Additionally, a major aim of this roundtable discussion, is to summarize the relevance of cohort generational analysis and, to assess the value of discussion for adult educators' and, returning adult learners' "joint participation" in learning, in assessing the meaning, place, and, utility that learning has in our lives.
Session Description
This session is important as we address who participates in adult education and who does not, and whom is inclined to engaged in continued participation in learning activities. Further, we will find that learning in its many forms, be it formal, informal, or non-formal occurs in a variety of settings, however we have yet to discuss the role that cohort generational influences play with regard to its impact in peoples lives, work, culture, and community and, why there may exist a gap in the transfer of learning, regardless of instructional strategy due to generational effects. Moreover, we have yet to dialogue about the roles that policy and practice may have on differences which exist across generations for both the adult educator and the adult participant in the field of adult education.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
No preference
Primary Presenter
Dr. Elice E. Rogers, Cleveland State University
Work Title
Associate Professor
Additional Presenters: Enters In Order.
Jonathan E. Messemer, Ed.D., Cleveland State University
Work Title
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Adult Learning and Development