Adult Lost Prizes, Missing Aspirations, a 21st Century Education, and Self-Fulfillment

Autor/inn/en	Ambrose, Don; Ambrose, Valerie K.
Titel	Adult Lost Prizes, Missing Aspirations, a 21st Century Education, and Self-Fulfillment
Quelle	In: International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 1 (2013) 1, S.75-86 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2291-7179
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Adult Programs; Aspiration; Talent Development; Neoliberalism; Ideology; Economically Disadvantaged; Democracy; Governance; Sociocultural Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Streben; Begabtenförderung; Talentförderung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Ideologie; Demokratie; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Soziokulturelle Theorie
Abstract	Adults from deprived backgrounds face daunting barriers when it comes to the discovery of intrinsically motivating aspirations and the discovery and development of talents consistent with those aspirations. In contrast, privileged young people enjoy ideal conditions for establishing productive, purposeful life trajectories spiraling up toward long-term self-fulfillment. The barriers faced by the deprived are becoming even more formidable in today's highly complex, globalized, artificially social Darwinian socioeconomic system. Meanwhile, conditions in the 21st century are requiring a complex, difficult to acquire set of knowledge, skills, and dispositions, which include creative and critical thinking, interdisciplinary thinking, leadership, and purposeful self-development, among other abilities. Unfortunately, as with K-12 education, adult education programs are being forced to ignore the development of these 21st century capacities in favor of superficial, narrow, standardized, highly mechanistic knowledge and algorithmic skills. This article is intended to build awareness of the nature and demands of the 21st-century socioeconomic context, the dynamics of aspiration discovery and talent development, and the ways in which dogmatic ideology is pressuring education systems to ignore the needs of the deprived just when they require more instructional scaffolding than ever before to succeed in a highly complex, uncertain world. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	International Centre for Innovation in Education (ICIE) & Lost Prizes International (LPI). Postfach 12 40, D-89002, Ulm, Germany. Web site: http://www.ijtdc.net/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01