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Case Study: Adult Learning and Public Health--A Foundational Training Programme in Field Epidemiology with Lessons and Opportunities for Collaboration
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Matthew Myers Griffith; Barbara Pamphilon – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
This article explores the first field epidemiology training programme (FETP) through a case study to understand its approach to learning and education. Field epidemiologists deploy to outbreaks to investigate, control, and prevent future epidemics and pandemics. Since the 1950s, they have learned their trade through FETP. FETP arose at a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Public Health, Epidemiology
Solidarity, Agency, and Learning in Everyday Participation: A Look at an Adult Education Program in the Context of COVID-19
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Judy Kalman; María del Carmen Lorenzatti – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2024
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world stage has impacted multiple aspects of our lives, affecting how we interact, organize public affairs, and carry out daily activities. This paper explores how students in an ongoing adult education program in Villa María, Argentina, continued their studies during the 2020-2022 pandemic in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Health
'I Have to Know. I Have to Understand How to Do This!' Personal and Professional Experiences of ESOL Practitioners in Ireland during and since the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Paul Sceeny – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2024
This article draws on a qualitative study of insights and reflections from the COVID-19 pandemic completed for a master's thesis. It centred on the experiences of seven English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) practitioners in Ireland, considering the practical ways they responded to the public health measures, but also how they felt, how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)