The Pedagogy of Play: The Joy of Living, Learning, and Riding Motorcycles

This research explores how the theoretical construct of lifelong learning is enriched through play, and proposes that the pedagogy of play might be an important new adult learning theory

The Democratic Ideal vs. Luhmann’s Autopoietic Systems in Adult Education

This paper analyzes the democratic ideal and its historical importance to adult education, and then analyzes how adult education today fits Niklas Luhmann’s autopoietic systems at the expense of the democratic ideal

Mentoring Assistant Professors: Supporting and Nurturing Talent Needed to Grow a Program

This paper provides an overview of a land grant university\u27s college of education assistant professor mentoring program, and how mentoring is needed to develop successful junior faculty and grow an academic program in a neoliberal environment

The Fear of Flying: Reflections on Retirement

I explore how I have defined adult education through my actions and decisions, how has adult education defined who I am, and how has adult education changed during my career

PIAAC’s role in global food security: Evidence from machine learning-based feature selection across three major food security indicators

The PIAAC country dataset for 36 countries is explored to understand its role in global food security, adding to its significance in sustainable development goal four, zero hunger

Preliminary Analysis: Is there enough definitional clarity of food literacy for food security?

We conducted a systematic review of the literature (2001 - 2021) to investigate the definitional clarity of food literacy for food security among adults. Our findings suggest the need for a more precise definition of food literacy

Establishment of a local food system in eastern Iowa

Several strategies to enhance local food production and marketing were employed by the Johnson County (IA) Soil and Water Conservation District. Among them were a pilot project on institutional buying practices, a directory of local food products, planning of locally sourced All-Iowa meals, and other educational and outreach activities

Marketing and value-added opportunities with alternative swine systems

Cindy Madsen is a member of Audubon County Family Farms, a group of producers who believe in healthy farms raising healthy families. They work together to market their products directly to the consumer. Four producers use hooped structures in their hog production, two\u27sell chickens and eggs, one has antibiotic-free beef, as well as other products. All have very diverse, sustainable farming systems. It helps to have a state-inspected small processor available 20 miles from Audubon. Gary Malenke of Sioux-Preme Packing shared insights from the packer\u27s perspective. His company\u27s primary business had used mostly frozen carcasses until they began working with Farmland Foods and started to custom cut their own hogs in early 1997. In a constantly changing business, he said Sioux-Preme had trouble establishing an identity in a very competitive primal cuts market. One strategy has been to focus on lighter weight pigs, which work well for food service. To differentiate themselves, they went to customers not being served by the mainstream packers

The political economy of growing a rural university in the USA using online education: An examination of incentives for educational imperialism and academic capitalism

Rural colleges and universities in the USA struggle to recruit new students as their geographic region is depopulating and cost to attend classes on campus are increasing. Online education using the Internet is rapidly expanding as an effective growth strategy to reach new groups of students. In this paper we take the position that online education is a form of cultural imperialism and academic capitalism where curriculum developers and professors are motivated to enroll new students in order to maintain the credibility and strength of their programmes and host institutions. We argue that it is not our intent to be educational imperialists or capitalists. Rather these are unintended consequences of our actions. This argument is supported by political economy theory in that we are marketing a technical rational form of online education without awareness of its long‐term cultural, economic, or political ramifications. Even though we pride ourselves on developing a high quality programme that in our eyes meet the needs of our students, understanding the political economy of online education is essential if our programme that has access to the global market is to go beyond the individual needs of students and address social, cultural and political needs. We conclude that one way out of this malaise is to understand our role as instructors and course designers as a first step toward understanding the intended and unintended consequences of online education

Gutierrez’s Concepts of Individualism and Equality as Related to Similar Concepts of Karl Marx and John Dewey

The purpose of this research is to explore and analyze liberation theology as defined by GustavoGutierrez in relation to the concepts of equality and individualism in the social and educationaltheories of Karl Marx and John Dewey. These three iconic theorists wrote about educationalreform and reconstruction in response to the social conditions in their respective eras, andachieved notoriety based not only on their own writings but also upon the proliferation ofinterpretations and analyses of their writing by both their critics and followers. Marxistsociology is incorporated directly into Gutierrez’s work and as well influenced Dewey’s earlyanalyses. Gutierrez envisioned equality where members within a community assumeresponsibility for each other. Only in community, according to Gutierrez, are individuals strongenough to withstand the inequality, injustice, and exploitation by others