A wide range of dates is accorded Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers, and Gen-Ys. The range of dates is compounded because the term cohort and generation are often used interchangeably when they measure distinctly different time periods, making it impossible to disentangle the group's size and their distinctive lifestyles. This complicates the ability of advertisers to target markets and can prevent product placement and even product development. A standard is set forth in this paper to more clearly define both a generation and a cohort to end the confusion. The standard will provide a clearer measure of who one is talking about when discussing the distinctions among the various age groups and the impact the group will have on society when their attitudes and values are examined.

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Demographics of Age: Generational and Cohort Confusion

Every Citizen a Statesman Building a Democracy for Foreign Policy in the American Century

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Every Citizen a Statesman: Building a Democracy for Foreign Policy in the American Century

In this paper w/e provide a North American perspective as w/e explore the formation and comprehension of queer knowledge in adult education and in larger sociocultural contexts. W/e consider the need to position queer in adult education mindful of how queer is historically and currently positioned in culture and society. In doing so, w/e articulate queer—a term representing our spectral community that incorporates a diversity of sex, sexual, and gender differences—and queerness: our ways of being, believing, desiring, becoming, belonging, and acting in life-and-learning spaces. Then w/e turn to queer history and queer studies to investigate queer knowledge as fugitive knowledge integral and informative to our project to transgress the social and reconstitute the cultural in adult education as a field of study and practice. W/e locate queer knowledge as an antecedent to queer praxis, and focus on inclusive queer praxis as a transgressive practice-expression-reflection dynamic and a site of transfor...

Positioning queer in adult education: Intervening in politics and praxis in North America

In the field of adult education, the context of immigration as it influences the learning experiences of foreign-born learners has received scant attention. This chapter examines the influence of early formal and informal socialization on the learning behavior of immigrants and second language learners in U.S. adult education.

Socialization and Immigrant Students' Learning in Adult Education Programs.

Due to copyright restrictions all images have been removed from the electronic version of this thesis. The unabridged version can be consulted, on request, at the University of Leicester’s David Wilson Library.

https://lra.le.ac.uk/bitstream/2381/28263/1/2013HULMETPhD.pdf

Civic culture and citizenship : the nature of urban governance in interwar Manchester and Chicago

Part One: Adult Education in Early America Part Two: The Early National and Antebellum Eras Part Three: Adult Education in an Era of Modernization Part Four: The Nation Amid Crisis and Recovery Part Five: America at the Peak of World Power.

Harold W. Stubblefield

Papers

Adult Education in the American Experience: From the Colonial Period to the Present

Adult Education in the American Experience from the Colonial Period to the Present. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.