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Learning from Journeying from the Rift Valley to the Hindukush and Back: A Look at an Already Shifted Paradigm in AE Program Design
Type of Presentation
Concurrent
Session Abstract
The Blended Shore Education Framework (BSEF) offers an adult education program design approach that is grounded in action research, conducted in Kenya, Afghanistan, Thailand, and USA. This evidence-based model, developed by and with diverse stakeholders, offers a framework for education programs for disfranchised communities, without dichotomizing along values or practices. The session is an opportunity for intensive and critical questioning of our definitions of the "what and how" of our praxis in the larger context of international/intercultural perspectives.
Target Audience
Instructors, professors, designers of courses and programs, administrators of AE programs, and researchers.
Learning Outcomes
Session participants will be able to:
- Identify BSEF principles and tenets
- Analyze the key components of culturally-grounded AE program design
- Critically reflect on one's AE praxis in the context of intercultural/international/inter-socio-economic status values
- Examine criteria for evaluating AE program design practices
Session Description
Within increasingly "globalizing" AE program design and delivery, and also within the context of increasing needs for seamless education (cradle to grave), our practice of designing and developing programs needs rigorous examination - particularly at the HE levels where AE practitioners are being prepared for their work. Clarifying values (one's own and that of others) and creating awareness about the impact of one's 'paradigmatic assumptions' on our actions as education practitioners are at the heart of this session. As the MDGs remain to be achieved, as communities in USA continue to cry for education as a means for development an transformation, as international bodies continue to pay for education programs for women without desired results, this topic continues to be important in our profession, whether we work locallly or globally or both....
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No preference
Primary Presenter
Dr. Gabriele Strohschen, DePaul University
Work Title
Associate Professor