The new “new student”: The working adult

Zwerling, L. Steven

doi:10.1002/cc.36819803210

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“…Remote instruction first appeared as a creative, practical, nonemergency response to barriers that part-time adult college learners were encountering in balancing work with school, especially the time it took to travel from one place to the other. Remote learning allowed for “noncampus learning” whereby “students remain at home and receive lessons via cable television” (Zwerling 1980 , p. 102): an iteration of tele-learning, but which Zwerling, then associate dean of continuing education at New York University, tied to the “electronic cottage” vision of futurist writer and businessman Alvin Toffler ( 1981 ). Toffler’s dream of the electronic cottage actualizes working and living at home, with people relieved from travelling to work (thus reducing pollution), ensconced within the everyday fabric of family life (rather than torn from it), and even potentially emancipated from bosses through becoming their own “independent entrepreneurs”.…”

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Locked in and locked out: Covid-19 and teaching “remotely”

Strong‐Wilson

Yoder

2021

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Covid-19 has rendered education “remote”, opening a chasm in space and time between teachers and students, between how teaching and learning was practiced before and how it is practiced now and for the foreseeable, uncertain future. As many educators find themselves both locked in and locked out, this article seeks to sort through the implications of this remoteness . The article builds on the work of William F. Pinar and George Grant, to argue that technology is an ontology shaping how we encounter who we are and the world in which we live. Caught within the tightening circle of a Covid-19 environment predicated on keeping our distance from one another, while we are connecting technologically, at risk is the complicated conversation, as well as attunement, that lie at the heart of teaching, even as teachers know that it is only through improvisational variations on these that one can hope to chart an ethical course forward.

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Section: Remote Teaching and Learning: What Is Implied?mentioning

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Locked in and locked out: Covid-19 and teaching “remotely”

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2021

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“…In an article titled ''The New 'New' Student,' ' Zwerling (1980) questions the viability of the comprehensive community college in serving a growing population of adult, part-time students. His article discussed the educational needs and objectives of adult learners in community colleges, and provided examples of programs that meet these needs.…”

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Older Adults in Community Colleges: Choices, Attitudes, and Goals

Laanan

2003

Educational Gerontology

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Older adults comprise a growing population in America's community colleges. Today, approximately 15% of adults 40 years or older are enrolled in community colleges. Reasons for choosing the community college are as varied as the students themselves. Arguably, older adults are choosing the community college for reasons that include low tuition, convenient location, comprehensive course offerings, and flexible schedules. The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine a cohort of older adults age 55 or older who were enrolled in public two-year colleges in 1996 and 1997. Specifically, the choices, attitudes, and goals of older adults were examined. The descriptive findings provide administrators, faculty, student affairs professionals, and researchers with information about a population seldom examined.

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The new “new student”: The working adult

Abstract: If communiQ colleges are going to educaterather than exploitnew "new" students, their real needs and aspirations must be identified.

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Locked in and locked out: Covid-19 and teaching “remotely”

Locked in and locked out: Covid-19 and teaching “remotely”

Older Adults in Community Colleges: Choices, Attitudes, and Goals

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