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Johnson, Laura Ruth; Stribling, Colleen; Almburg, Anne; Vitale, Gail – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2015
This article examines the processes of knowledge acquisition and transmission among adults within two "communities of practice" in Humboldt Park/"Paseo Boricua," a Puerto Rican community located on Chicago's near-northwest side. In particular, we examine the ways in which two adult women engaged in learning processes and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Puerto Ricans, Hispanic Americans, Communities of Practice
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Sprow Forte, Karin – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2013
This study explored the teaching and learning in an adult financial literacy education program aimed specifically at Latina single mothers to understand the influence of sociocultural factors in this setting. Informed by critical and Latina feminist sociocultural adult learning perspectives and the transtheoretical model of behavior change,…
Descriptors: Money Management, Knowledge Level, Consumer Education, Adult Education