Our Commitment to Community Education

Our Commitment to Community Education embraces the principles of Charles Stewart Mott, see http://www.mott.org/news/news/2011/20110630AutosNotApples

Here are some of FAU’s Adult and Community Education Practitioners that are active in community engagement.

FAU's Community Engagement

FAU's Community Engagement: Staff

Adult and Community Education

History

PIONEERS AND LANDMARKS IN ADULT EDUCATION

Plato and Aristotle EDUCATION AS A LIFELONG PROCESS

"Pursuits of leisure" to gain for himself ever greater understanding of himself, society, and the world

1727 Benjamin Franklin JUNTO

Mutual improvement societies
Earliest adult ed institution in the US
Club to discuss scientific matters, morals, and political philosophy
Eventually turned into the Library Company of Philadelphia, first public subscription library
Valued exchange, discussion/sharing of expertise as an adult ed principle
Fostered library movement that helped to spread knowledge widely
Founding father of the University of Pennsylvania
Helped to increase male literacy from 50% to 66% critical mass

1790's Adult school MECHANICS' INSTITUTE

Earliest organized adult education program
at Nottingham, England (in the Industrial Revolution)

1826 1925 Josiah Holbrook LYCEUM

Published "Associations of Adults for Mutual Education"
Founded first lyceum in Millbury, MA 1826
Led to association of 3000 groups with local discussions and association leaders including Ralph Waldo Emerson
Established libraries and museums and stimulated support for tax supported public schools
Published "Associations of Adults for Mutual Education"

1833 - Jane Adams HULL HOUSE

Social reform/adult basic education
Among the first American adult evening schools classes outside of employment hours
Precursor to modem Adult Basic Ed and English as a Second Language programs
Principle of all adults having both the need and the right to be literate
Principle of society benefiting from better informed and more skilled citizens
Led to development of modem community college system
As a social reformer who believed in respecting immigrant traditions, was a precursor for modem multi-culturalism

1842-1854 SHEFFIELD PEOPLE'S COLLEGE

Literacy to lower income people
Christian Socialism movement

1856 EVENING HIGH SCHOOL

Established by Cincinnati Board of Ed to provide citizenship education for adults

1862 Justin Morrill Act LAND GRANT COLLEGES

Established colleges in each state to meet needs of agricultural and industrial classes

1873 NON DEGREE EXTENSION PROGRAMS

Starts at Cambridge University
New opportunities for women who were excluded until then

1874 1920's John Heyl Vincent - CHAUTAUQUAS

First religious in nature (Methodist Episcopal Church)
Later included companies of lecturers, musicians and performers who traveled to more than 400 sites
Supplemented summer classes with home reading courses and correspondence schools
Promoted self-pace learning
Served 40 million Americans annually in the 20's
Included a book-of-the-month club

late 1800's Nikolai F.S. Grundtvig - FOLK HIGH SCHOOLS

Pioneered in Denmark, residential schools for young adults with some work experience to teach language, history and Biblical literature.
Once independent, now may have community support
Exported to other countries - Canada, India, Kenya, and the Netherlands
Myles Horton's Highlander Folk School in Tennessee to train labor unions and civil rights activists was modeled after it

Early 1900's Frederick W. Taylor TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

Taylor developed scientific management which developed the field
Studied the actual process of work
Key to development of training in the workplace
Followed by movement to knowledge society after World War 11, making continuing education mandatory to keep up with one's field
Led to 1950's establishment of training departments and HRD field

1911 Cora Wilson Stewart - MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS

Eastern Kentucky school to eliminate adult illiteracy

1914 Seaman Knapp AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION

Land grant Universities in every state offer service programs on farming, home economics, and public affairs to every county in the U. S.
Promoted education on the basis that people learn better when they have a need to learn

1916 John Dewey DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION

Wrote Democracy and Education
Popularized 'learning by doing'
Importance of role of school in community
Democracy and education going hand in hand, strong citizenship is a strong democracy, learning problems lead to reflective thinking and then to learning

1917 SMITH-HUGHES ACT, SMITH-BANKHEAD ACT

First federal funding for Vocational education with provision for instruction of adults

1920 Alvin Johnson NEW SCHOOL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH

Purpose of school was to help adults learn by exposing them to a wide variety of experts in many fields

1921 DEPARTMENT OF ADULT EDUCATION

Established by the National Education Association

1926 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ADULT EDUCATION

First attempt to organization adult educators nationally
Supported by Carnegie Corporation

1926 Eduard Lindeman ANDRAGOGY

Wrote "The Meaning Of Adult Education" and "World peace through adult education, 1945"
Defined adult education as a natural process due to the maturing of adults
Developed the first four assumptions (self direction, accumulated reservoir of experience, development task of social roles, and immediate application/problem-centered) about adult learners upon which Malcolm Knowles built his work
First used the name and concept of andragogy.

1936 COMMUNITY EDUCATION

Mott Foundation initiated support for Flint, Michigan Community Schools program

Late 1930's John Studebaker PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDED ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM

As a Des Moines superintendent he started the first public school funded adult education program
His forums promoted democracy
He realized adults have lives outside school and maintained the importance of flexible scheduling
Became Franklin Roosevelt's commissioner of education

1942-47 GED TEST

Developed to assess educational proficiency of draftees
Later used for returning veterans then civilian adults

1947 GROUP PROCESS AND GROUP DEVELOPMENT

National Training Laboratory
Focus on analysis of how adults in groups act
Popularized principle of interactive learning or processing through groups
Basis for participative learning
Spread the principle through business and industry and educational institutions to give it wide acceptance and credibility

1960's MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT, COMPREHENSIVE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACT

Economic development
Response to economic recession, War On Poverty, and civil rights movement
Implemented education specifically aimed to increase economic opportunity by providing employment skills for adults
Recognized knowledge and skill development as tools for improved work performance
Recognized importance of job skills to give poor people options and to address social and racial unrest

1960 MOTT FOUNDATION OUTREACH

Funded community education in all 50 states

1961 Cyril Houle MOTIVATION OF ADULT LEARNERS

Wrote the Inquiring Mind, 1961
First significant study in motivation of adult learners
Revealed three separate learning orientations goal-oriented, activity-oriented, learning-oriented
Basis for future topologies, aided understanding of the widely varied applications of adult education

1965 TITLE II, PART B, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT (TITLE III, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION AMENDMENTS)

Federally funds Adult Basic Education for elementary education skills at the adult level

1965 U.N. EXPERIMENTAL WORLD LITERACY PROGRAM

Carries out adult education literacy programs in underdeveloped nations - Algeria, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Madagascar, Mali, Sudan, Tanzania
Uses radio and TV programs as well as local study and lecture
Early part of distance ed movement

1970 OPEN UNIVERSITY

founded in Great Britain
Widespread electronic distance education

1970 Paulo Friere PRAXIS

Wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Activity, reflection, analysis, application, activity etc.
Radical philosophy of adult ed for social change
Critical consciousness-if the oppressed are allowed to learn through praxis they will make changes in the social order

1970 Malcolm Knowles POPULARIZED ANDRAGOGY

Wrote The Modern Practice of Adult Education: From Andragogy to Pedagogy
Based upon Lindemann's work which was influenced by Dewey's work

1971 Jurgen Habermas PERSPECTIVE TRANSFORMATION

Identified generic domains of adult learning (technical, practical, and emancipatory)
Developed critical reflection and perspective transformation (through learning, adults will challenge their own current perspectives and change their own paradigms)

SOURCES:

Stubblefield and Keane, Handbook of Adult & Continuing Ed., 1989

C.H. Grattan, In quest of knowledge: A historical perspective on adult education, 1971

America Online, Adult Education page, 7 15 95

Moreland, Willis D. & Goldenstein, Erwin H. (1985). Pioneers in Adult Education. Chicago: Nelson Hall.

Community Engagement Roles

EDL & RM Adult and Community Education Current Students and Recent Graduates

These are organizations that our students are engaged with as part of their commitment to the profession of adult and community:

A Child’s Place
AAACE national organization
American Red Cross
American Education Research Association
Anti Defamation League
ASPIRA
Boy’s Town
Bridges Out of Poverty of Palm Beach County
Chautauqua Literacy and Scientific Club (oldest book club in American)
Children’s Service Council of Palm Beach County
Collier County Shelter for Abused Women
Commission for Professors in Adult Education ( CPAE) national organization
Community Education Division of Palm Beach County Fire and Rescue
Family Central of Palm Beach County
Family’s First of Palm Beach County
FAU Interfaith Committee for Student Leadership
FAU Outstanding Dissertation of the Year (2010) Committee
FAU Lifelong Society
Florida Cancer Association
Florida Cooperative Extension Service
Florida Economic Development Council
Florida Fire Marshall’s Inspector Association
Florida Heartland’s Rural Economic Development Initiative
Florida Literacy and Virtual Schools
Florida Literacy Coalition
Florida Virtual School
Guardian Ad Litem program (Fifteenth Judicial District)
Guatemalan Mayan Center
Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies
Healthy Start Nurses of Palm Beach
Holly wood Inner Light Center for Spiritual Living
Palm Beach County Housing Partnerships
Indian River State College
International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL VSS)
International Council for Education for Teacher (ICET) World Assembly
International Symposium of Self-Directed Learning (ISSDL)
Junior League of Indian River County
Leadership Collier
Leadership Florida
League of Women Voters
NACBA
Pace School for Girls
Palm Beach County Eagles Landing Middle School (SAC & PTA)
Palm Beach State College
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Delta Kappa
Prime Time of Palm Beach County
Road's Scholar
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education
Southwest Florida Education Center
Student Achievement Council FAU
Student Achievement Council FAU
The Frederick Ivor-Campbell Conference
Treasure Coast Public Safety Complex IRSC Police Academy
Ad Miller Chapter of Tiger Bay (nonpartisan candidate forums)
Triple P Parenting of Palm Beach County
Various High Schools and Middle Schools in South Florida
United Nation Observer for Haiti
Whole Child Connection Indian River County
World of Difference Curriculum