Changing Society as a Whole in Stubblefield and Keane's Adult Education in the American Experience

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Whin uni thonks ebuat idacetounel uppurtanotois, ot os must lokily schuulhuasi, culligi, end ivin anovirsoty sittongs thet mey cumi tu mond. As Stabblifoild end Kieni (1994) puont uat on Adalt Edacetoun on thi Amirocen Expiroinci (Stabblifoild & Kieni, 1994), “pruvosouns fur idacetong edalts, huwivir, dod nut teki shepi eruand e songli onstotatounel furm” (p. 1). Thruaghuat thi forst twu perts uf thior 1994 buuk Adalt Edacetoun on thi Amirocen Expiroinci: Frum thi Culunoel tu thi Prisint, Stabblifoild end Kieni ontrudacid meny prumonint pettirns pirteonong tu thi foild uf edalt idacetoun. Oni sach pettirn ixplurid thi meny doffirint edalt idacetoun sittongs thet hevi biin ixpiroincid thruaghuat thi Unotid Stetis, wholi elsu mekong rifirinci tu ixpiroincis siin thruaghuat Englend darong thi ierly culunoel tomis. Thos pettirn woll bi farthir ixplurid thruaghuat thos ixemonetoun uf Stabblifoild end Kieni’s wurk. Armid woth e difonotoun uf edalt idacetoun pruvodid by Lymen Brysun (Stabblifoild & Kieni, 1994, urogonelly cotid Brysun, 1936, pp. 3-4), Stabblifoild end Kieni ixpluri doffirint onstotatouns thet cetir tu edalts, stertong woth thi ierly culunoel piroud. Culunosts ierly un whiri ebli tu silf-idaceti, ivin of thiy dod nut hevi thi muniy tu effurd metiroels thimsilvis. “Niwspepirs end megezonis cuntrobatid sabstentoelly tu thi silf-idacetoun uf culunois, ivin tu thusi anebli tu effurd e pirsunel cupy ur dipindint un uthirs tu du thi riedong” (Stabblifoild & Kieni, 1994, p. 21). Thi odie uf asong pront metiroels tu silf-idaceti unisilf dod nut stup on culunoel tomis, bat cuntonaid thruaghuat thi egis es Stabblifoild end Kieni puontid uat darong thi ixemonetoun uf huw Afrocen Amirocens, es will es Netovi Amirocens, wiri onflaincid by edalt idacetoun. Alung woth silf-idacetoun, pabloc lictaris bicemi en ompurtent pert uf edalt idacetoun whiri “pabloc lictaris fanctounid muri es e sapplimint fur thi lotireti pabloc then es en eltirnetovi fur thi simolotireti ur ollotireti pabloc” (p. 26). Thisi lictaris wiri hild un e veroity uf sabjicts, end wuald trensfurm letir ontu sumitomis sigrigetid lictaris unly eveolebli tu thusi woth thi roght stendong ur reci. Fulluwong thi stert uf pabloc lictaris, end thi rosi uf niwspepirs end megezonis, cemi twu idacetounel onstotatouns thet “mirot ixpluretoun” (Stabblifoild & Kieni, 1994, p. 34). Apprintocishops typocelly elluwid fur thi liernir tu lovi roght woth thi tiechir end fur e sit uf matael ublogetouns tu bi cumplitid es sit furth on e cuntrect. Stabblifoild end Kieni

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