Adult Education and Cooperative Entrepreneurialism at a Small, Urban, Public Liberal Arts College

Autor/inn/en	Sheppard, Gilda; Zaragoza, Anthony
Titel	Adult Education and Cooperative Entrepreneurialism at a Small, Urban, Public Liberal Arts College
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 104 (2018) 4 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	Small Colleges; Public Colleges; Adult Education; Liberal Arts; Entrepreneurship; Cooperatives; Popular Education; College Curriculum; Interdisciplinary Approach; Community Education; Urban Schools; Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College; Colleges; Oberschule; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Unternehmungsgeist; Genossenschaftswesen; Befreiungspädagogik; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; ; Gemeinschaftserziehung; Nachbarschaftserziehung; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule
Abstract	An interdisciplinary liberal arts program can prompt innovative ideas and self-discovery when fired in a kiln of social and economic justice fueled by high-impact practices. Developing learning communities, internships, group projects, local-to-global learning, community-based service learning, and capstone projects can enhance education and learning. These practices can be found in places like Evergreen State College-Tacoma, one of the schools that education researcher David Scobey calls "Great Colleges for the New Majority." But too often, even when these practices are an institutional priority, they do not reach students of color, poor or working-class students, or first-generation students. Situating knowledge in experiences that engage students with the community and larger world broadens their ability to see themselves in academic study and intellectual engagement. These methods support students in creating new forms of knowledge and ways of knowing and thinking, while also instilling courage, creativity, and skills to change the world. The Evergreen State College-Tacoma was founded in 1972 in the Hilltop community of Tacoma, Washington. It is a branch of the Evergreen State College's larger campus in Olympia. Evergreen-Tacoma is a community-based, interdisciplinary, liberal arts, urban learning laboratory built from African American heritage, especially the principle that learning is the practice of freedom. In joining liberal education with entrepreneurship has the potential to address tensions within career-focused curricula that continue the usual narrative for marginalized students. Instead, the school seeks a broader casting of entrepreneurship as popular education, redefining job skills to include abstract thinking and so-called soft skills of collaboration, customer/community service, and cooperative peer management. This inspires imagination and uncovers interdisciplinary intersections that inform biography and agency. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01