EDST 583A Advanced Seminar in Lifelong Learning Summer Term 2a: July2-19, 2013 Ponderosa F, Room 203
 
Instructor: Nancy Jackson, Assoc. Prof Emerita, University of Toronto
Email: nancy.jackson@utoronto.ca
 
 
This course will explore the complex terrain of lifelong learning and its g= rowing presence in public policies and in popular imaginations. Western sys= tems of education have been built on the belief that most learning goes on = amongst the young. But in the post war era, the capacity of adults to go on=  learning has come to be seen as a vast, mostly untapped, 'human resource' = to be mobilized, managed and regulated to serve a variety of competing inte= rests.  The results are often a maze of contradictions.
 
In this course, we will examine several familiar domains in which discourse= s of learning increasingly shape policy and practice in public or private s= ectors. This might include the growing requirement for continuing professio= nal education, the mandating of employee development plans as a core manage= ment practice, and/or the advent of standardized international tools to mon= itor adult literacy levels as indicators of national competitiveness. We wi= ll explore the social relations that both give rise to and are sustained by=  these arrangements, including the forms of subjectivity that are construct= ed and normalized. We will explore, through both the scholarly literature a= nd through  reflection on life experiences, the range of outcomes and the d= istributions of benefits associated with these regimes of learning.
 
This is a 3-week intensive, participatory seminar; daily preparation time i= s essential.  There will be 1-2 required readings per day, and each student=  will be required to prepare and submit daily one question for class discus= sion, based on a close reading of these materials. Each week every student = will be required to submit a briefing paper based on readings and class dis= cussion.  The third briefing paper will be due a few days after the end of = the course and will serve as the final assignment.
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Nancy Jackson is a Professor Emerita from the Department of Adult Education=  and Counseling Psychology, OISE/UT. She has been researching in the area o= f adult literacy, workplace literacy, critical studies of work and working = knowledge, political economy of skills training, gender and skill, lifelong=  learning and policy and women and adult education.

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