ADULT EDUCATION :KAM 1-PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL CHANGE Development and change permeate society in all its facets: history, culture, ecology, economy, politics, science and technology, social groupings, and a society’s place in the world, to name a few. As individuals and as professionals facing contemporary challenges, we must understand the contexts within which change takes place in our society, the variety of forces that operate to bring about change, the consequences of change, and our own role as change agents. Thesis:“Analyze, within an historical and global perspective, the local practice of adult education in order to engage learners in promoting social justice and social change.” The world we know and occupy is not the same as the world our recent forbearers occupied, and it will not be the same as the one our children or children’s children will inhabit. All that we know as our reality has been shaped by forces from the past and will in turn give rise to new forces that will mold the future. Some of these forces have been quite intentional: One thinks here of deliberative democracy and the civil rights and women’s movements as purposeful forces that have shaped societies. Other forces have come about as a consequence of natural developments: changes in a society’s demographics are somewhat predictable and not always under our control. Still other changes have come about as a direct result of human intervention, planned or otherwise: globalization, first the industrial and then the technological revolution, the distribution of wealth within a society, multiculturalism and ethnic and religious diversity, changes in the environment, communications between groups of people, and the development of new domains of knowledge. Historically, adult educators have played significant roles in promoting social change. The work of union organizers, literacy specialists, and prison educators all contribute to social change within adult education organizations and the communities in which they are located. In each situation, adult education leaders integrated what they knew of community politics, community resources, and their own philosophies of education to impact social change. Clearly change has brought both greater happiness and greater threats to happiness, improved conditions for many and the potential for diminished lifestyles for too many, new challenges, and new opportunities. And these changes at the macro-level of the society impact the micro-level of our daily lives and our professional environments, for good or ill. Acknowledging change in these terms, we see that we are not only impacted by ongoing change but can become responders to, participants in, and shapers of change. Depth component: The purpose of the Depth component is to help you understand, analyze, and explain social change/societal development as it affects and is affected by Adult Education. Your task in this component is to select a particular social change/societal development that has salience in the current time period, is of interest to you, and intersects in intriguing and important ways with your professional context. For instance, you may want to consider some aspects related to: 1. The multicultural, multi-age group learning environment (The BOOMER Generation) 2. Online learning: responses to futuristic theories. 3. Public deliberation, community action, and collaborative learning 4. The “graying” of America and implications for health education. 5. Global change and international trends in adult education movements Demonstration of Competence: Compile an annotated bibliography that includes a minimum of 15 recent (within 5 yrs) refereed or peer-reviewed research journal articles (or older articles if they are a particularly good fit) related to the social change/societal development theme that you identified for this assignment, including literature that places this issue within the historical development or contemporary context of Adult Education. For each source included on your list, prepare a critical analysis of that article. Arrange the bibliography in alphabetical order. Suggested length is 1 to 1½ pages per annotation. In addition to the annotated bibliography, You should-Write a 25-30 page double-spaced typed scholarly paper (with bibliography 15-20 sources included) describing, analyzing, and explaining the present status of social change/societal development and relating it to developments in field of Adult Education. In this paper, be sure to include evidence of higher order thinking (comparison and contrast, analysis, and evaluation). (Total page count is 45 (?) annotated bibliography 15 pages, and research paper 30 pages (with 15-20 sources listed))