Regions: South Slave Region
Tags: social sciences, traditional knowledge, community development, socio-cultural, personal experience, lifestyle change, community resilience, cross-cultural, adult education, aurora college, traditional beliefs, social evolution
| Principal Investigator: | MacPherson, Mike (1) |
| Licence Number: | 13109 |
| Organization: | Aurora College / Columbia University |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2000
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| Issued: | May 05, 2000 |
| Project Team: | H. Gemmel, M. Grundy, R. Daitch, P. Macdonald |
Objective(s): Critical self-reflection is important for people to deal with the challenges of late modern or postmodern society, which are characterized by pluralism, rapid change and unpredictability. Critical self-reflection has been ignored in the foci of adult le
Project Description: Critical self-reflection is important for people to deal with the challenges of late modern or postmodern society, which are characterized by pluralism, rapid change and unpredictability. Critical self-reflection has been ignored in the foci of adult learning and there have been few studies examining the process of stimulating such thought. The researcher will use the facilitated experience with literature to stimulate the experience and expression of critical self-reflection. The study site is within the Adult Basic Education Program in Aurora College, Thebacha Campus, Fort Smith. Students from 4 levels of English class (approximately 45 students in total) will be interviewed and observed (e.g. journals, class discussion) after reading novels classified as interpretive fiction. Informed consent will be obtained prior to participation in the study. Provisions have been made should this process cause participants to experience distress (e.g. counseling). Confidentiality will be maintained by using pseudonyms. After the study participants will have the option to obtain the recording of their interview or the tape will be destroyed.
