Andragogy: The Common Thread In The Teaching Of Adults in Colleges of Education, Criminal Justice, and Health Management

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought dramatic changes to higher education. Students and educators face challenges never anticipated, including switching classes from on-ground to online and back again, mental fatigue, stress, and burnout. Faculty across disciplines may turn to Andragogy to best teach college students to inform their teaching practices. This paper demonstrates how professors from education, criminal justice, and healthcare management have used andragogical techniques in their classrooms

St. Louis gang violence and the code of the street

While crime in general has been decreasing in St. Louis, Missouri, gang violence appears to be on the rise in select areas. This paper traces the cause of gang violence in St. Louis by examining it through the deviant subcultures criminological theory of crime. Ultimately, gang violence in St. Louis is a natural consequence of marginalized residents of high poverty neighborhoods internalizing oppositional values and behaviors reflected in Elijah Anderson\u27s code of the street, which posits that violence is a necessary tool to obtain status and respect when such is not possible through conventional means

Winning Trials: Turning the Courtroom into the Classroom

While a doctoral student studying andragogy (the art and science of adult education), the author noticed what appeared to be similarities in the techniques used by trial lawyers and those used by teachers of adults. To better understand these similarities, the author conducted a study investigating the degree, if any, to which successful attorneys incorporate adult learning instructional approaches into the way they conduct trials. Specifically, the study aimed to uncover whether successful trial attorneys utilize strategies in the courtroom that are similar to the andragogical approaches used by teachers of adult learners. If jurors are considered adult learners (within the context and confines of a court proceeding), it might follow that the best lawyers are those who are the best teachers. The study concluded that the most effective and successful attorneys incorporate methods of adult educators to inform, teach, instruct, and ultimately persuade jurors

Contradictions in Missouri: Do Apologies Really Matter in Criminal Sentencing?

Conventional wisdom provides that a criminal defendant who apologizes for wrongful actions committed may be shown mercy by the sentencing court. While some studies support the conventional wisdom, an apology sometimes has the opposite effect and results in a more severe sentence for the defendant. This study attempted to examine the effect a defendant’s apology had on a sentence handed down by a judge or commissioner sitting in the Circuit Courts of St. Charles County, St. Louis City, and St. Louis County, Missouri

Strong differences between Neanderthals and AMHs cannot be inferred from ethnographic evidence for skill and learning in hunting

The majority of analyses of hominin learning processes focus on stone tools. However, stone tool production is just one of many skills that were important for forager survival and success in the past, of which hunting strategies are one of the few documented in the Palaeolithic record. This chapter focuses on hunting skills, as a supplement to lithic studies addressing learning processes in Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans. Based on the ethnographic record, the content to be learned while hunting includes a wide range of different sorts of skills and information, some of which are situation specific. The similarities and relatively subtle differences in the record for hunting behaviour between the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic make it unlikely that there was a substantial contrast in the content to be learned or processes involved in acquiring hunting skills. Among contemporary hunters, various older individuals undertake some teaching and also frequently provide small tools, take children on hunting trips, and tell hunting stories. Children enthusiastically engage in their own hunting exploits and games with weapons. The widespread distribution of such activities suggests benefits for the speed and quality of learning, among other factors. It is not unlikely that AMH and Neanderthals, for whom hunting was an important skill, also employed some of these processes.Human Origin