ERIC ED319901: Negotiating the Curriculum with Unwaged pdf

ERIC ED319901: Negotiating the Curriculum with Unwaged

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A developmental study explored appropriate teaching and learning strategies for providing education about leisure activities and economic activities to the unemployed in Southampton, England. Developing a curriculum with unwaged adults was found to involve contact-outreach, negotiation, establishing an educational infrastructure, the learning experience itself, learner support and follow-up, evaluation, and integration. The study recommended that developers be clear about sociopolitical aims; foster individual autonomy by helping unwaged adults investigate and understand the social and economic context of unemployment; be clear about what the institution can offer; suggest educational starting points for the adult; and take into account the adult’s skills and experience. Providing education for leisure activities was found to have little meaning for many unwaged women and unemployed people in general. Coping activities may be more meaningful. Some learning activities, such as the development of hobbies, were found to require individual help. When trying to help adults create economic opportunities, the developer should plan on a first, exploratory and student-centered stage of student self-assessment, confidence-building and investigating what a business is and how it works.

The second, more technical stage will help the student study the details of bookkeeping and other aspects of business. (The document concludes with recommendations for institutions, collaboration contracts involved in the study, a list of elements of good practice, and 27 references.) (CML

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1989
• Year: 1989
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adults, Business Skills, Curriculum Development, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Extension Education, Foreign Countries, Hobbies, Labor Force Development, Leisure Education, Nontraditional Students, Unemployment

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