AAACE 2021 Annual Conference

History, Spiritual/Religious/Andragogy, International/Foundation, Living Lecture

This session employs an andragogical learning / facilitative technique - The Living Lecture. Participanrs are to listen to a short lecture on religious, historical, spiritual foundations of international adult education, for which they pose questions: clarification, disagreement, elaboration or application. Each question will be addressed by the presenter. Learning reflection follows.

This session will demonstrate 'The Living Lecture' and is labeled as picking up the challenge of offering a new aspect of adult spiritual/religious education - a living teacher/leader (Jesus) - beyond that offered in the 31st chapter of the 2020 AAACE Adult Education Handbook, titled "Adult Education for Human Flourishing: A Religious and Spiritual Framework" by Davin Car-Chellman, Michael Kroth, & Carol Rogers-Shaw. This is because the ideas are very timely, impactful and important in the current research, practice and service in the field of adult education - not only in the past, but presently and what looks like will be well into the future. The session begins with the participants being asked to form four 'listening groups' to the lecture that will be given - listening for things they want clarified, they disagree with, want elaborated on, and considerations for practical application. Next, the six-minute lecture is on the religious/spiritual context of a living teacher/leader-Jesus. Then, groups get together and decide the questions they want addressed. Following, each group's spokesperson asks their question and gets the lecturer's response in turn until all questions are addressed. A wrap-up is conducted by the total group with verbal reflections on pertinent learnings.