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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
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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)
Faden, Ruth R. – Health Education Quarterly, 1987
Discusses the ethics of health communications campaigns, including compatibility with the principle of respect for autonomy. Reviews five potential justifications: (1) public health as an independent value, (2) collective efficiency or preference, (3) third-party interests, (4) harm to health of others, and (5) countering short-term market…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Ethics, Health Programs, Information Dissemination
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Trussler, Terry; Marchand, Rick – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2005
Community-based research has evolved in the field of HIV/AIDS health promotion as a distinct expression of participatory action research in adult education. The authors of this chapter reflect on more than a decade of local knowledge construction to organize and improve the practice of HIV/AIDS health promotion in a variety of contexts.
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Promotion, Action Research, Adult Education