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Download full textImel, Susan – 2000
A relevant question for educators is how adult learning and education can cultivate change with individuals and groups. M.D. Hohn (1998) identifies four types of change: change by exception, incremental change, pendulum change, and paradigm change. A change agent tries to bring about a change deliberately. The change process is transformative, is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Change
Kerka, Sandra – 1997
Popular education is a form of adult education that encourages learners to examine their lives critically and take action to change social conditions. Popular education's goal is to develop people's capacity for social change. Although it may assume diverse forms, popular education usually involves a cycle described as action/reflection/action or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Change Agents, Change Strategies
