Susan Goethel Campbell’s exhibition Field Guide explores the nature of art and the conceptual process through a multimedia installation that also reflects upon temporality, art history, ecology and science. Introduced with a time-lapse video of weather patterns captured by web cam over the course of an entire year, atmospheric effects assume the quality of translucent washes that blur distinctions between opacity and transparency, painting and technology. Aerial views of built environments set against expansive cityscapes present essential imagery for large-format digital woodblock prints realized in monochromatic tonals and saturated grids of yellow and blazing orange. Some combine undulating wood grain patterns with pinhole perforations to admit light; others consist of diaphanous walnut stains applied to hand-crafted paper, a self-referential allusion to art’s planarity and permeable membrane. The evanescence of these views is echoed in pristine impressions of filtered dust and shimmering milkweed assemblages contained in Plexiglas light boxes. Known as Asclepias, milkweed is an herbaceous flower named by Carl Linnaeus after Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, due to its efficacious medicinal powers. Like the weather, the milkweed’s reflective silver filaments respond to shifting currents of air paired with gently wafted treetops projected in the viewing room. Here pearls of light corresponding to the spheres and pinpricks of the prints on the walls float randomly over the fictitious frame of a cubical vitrine. Orbs appear and disappear amid nocturnal shadows as figments of the imagination, their languid dispersion eliciting not-ofthis-world sensations of suspension, ascent and transcendence. This joined to the mesmerizing stillness of a gallery pierced occasionally by the sound of supersonic aircraft, a reminder of the machine in the garden. Beyond, the history of landscape photography and the Romantic sublime are encoded in works titled “Old Stand” that render minuscule figures of stationary box photographers against the grandeur of ice-capped Rockies. In some of the works the human figure is effaced as a historical memory through exquisitely modulated rubbings whose unbounded spatiality contrasts with the reflexive interiority of the viewing room. Campbell’s incandescent vision of nature asserts the phenomenal power of art to elevate the human spirit in the presence of heart-stirring beauty. It dares to reaffirm the timeless union between the material and immaterial substance of the universe, between human life and the ephemera of the natural world. f i l m

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

'New directions for adult and continuing education', published quarterly, is part of The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series. This issue, entitled 'Contemporary viewpoints on teaching adults effectively' brings together the perspectives of nine experts on teaching adults. The chapters are: 'Good teaching: one size fits all?' by Daniel D. Pratt (p. 5-15) which cautions against a one-size fits all approach to teaching adults; 'Teaching style: where are we now?' by Joe E. Heimlich and Emmalou Norland (p. 17-25) which reminds the readers that there is no one single approach to teaching and that understanding one's teaching style can serve as a basis for the improvement of instruction; 'The role of the teacher as mentor' by Lois J. Zachary (p. 27-38) which explores the relationship between the roles of mentor and teacher, points out that these two roles are not synonymous and describes key dimensions of effective mentoring; 'Race matters: the unspoken variable in the teaching-learning transaction' by Juanita Johnson-Bailey (p. 39-49) which points to the importance of examining and understanding race as a variable which affects the teaching and learning transaction; 'Teaching all learners as if they are special' by Nancy F. Gadbow (p. 51-61) which considers special learning needs of adult learners and examines effective strategies and technologies that can be employed to meet these special needs; 'Teaching for transformation' by Patricia Cranton (p. 63-71) which provides a brief synopsis of transformative learning theory, seven facets of the transformative learning process as well as teaching strategies designed to promote each of these facets; 'Quantum learning: teaching as dialogue' by Jane Vella (p. 73-83) which examines the relationship between teaching and learning, beginning with a definition of quantum learning and then outlining the dialogue approach to quantum learning; 'Effective teaching of adults: themes and conclusions' by Jovita M. Ross-Gordon (p. 85-91) which integrates information from the previous chapters and discusses the underlying themes and issues related to effective teaching of adults.

New directions for adult and continuing education, no. 93, Spring 2002

The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume I. The Rise of the Network Society

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing learning to be the world of education today and tomorrow as the reading material.

Learning to be: the world of education today and tomorrow.

It is commonly argued that a key challenge for e-learning is to encourage learner participation. Even though this challenge has received increased attention by researchers, little effort has been put into developing a sound theoretical understanding of what online participation actually is and how it may be studied empirically. This paper examines the conceptions and research approaches that underlie research on online participation in e-learning settings. A classification scheme was iteratively developed and used when publications on the topic were reviewed. It was found that research is dominated by low-level conceptions of online participation, which relies on frequency counts as measures of participation. However, some researchers aim to study more complex dimensions of participation, such as whether participants feel they are taking part and are engaged in dialogues, reflected by using a combination of perceived and actual measures of participation. In conclusion, a definition of online learner participation that acknowledges its more complex dimensions, such as doing, communicating, thinking, feeling, and belonging, is proposed.

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What is online learner participation? A literature review

The paper's starting point is to consider adult education as embedded in the political, social, cultural and economic processes of society. The writers believe that it is necessary to develop an understanding of these contexts in order to understand the role of adult education in Southern Africa in the last 20 years. The paper then looks at adult education in the Southern African context in terms of three themes. These are: adult education for survival; for economic development and for political and cultural development. Finally the paper considers the shift from adult education to lifelong learning.

Twenty years of adult education in Southern Africa

Roughly every 12 years starting in 1949, UNESCO has convened an International Conference on Adult Education (Confintea) – in 2009 it was Confintea V1. At these conferences Members of UNESCO commit ...

3rd Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE 111)

Discourses on adult learning and education (ALE) and in particular the GRALE Report generally have limited coverage of popular education as part of its ecology. Given both the long history of popul...

"If You Can't Measure It, It Doesn't Exist"? Popular Education in the Shadows of Global Reporting on Adult Learning and Education.

In Cape Town we have been experiencing the most severe drought in our history. We are not alone.Other cities – for example, in the United States, Brazil, Spain, Belgium, Australia, Morocco andPakistan – are also learning to live under new, more extreme, drought conditions. In this article Iuse the local drought as an aperture through which to identify key insights into how adult learningand education (ALE) can and should respond in times of climate crisis. The article is exploratory, asthe ambitious topic opens up a raft of complex economic, socio-ecological and political issueswhich can only be touched upon. It aims to prompt deeper conversations about ALE and climatecrises and to identify key questions for future ALE research.

Shirley Walters

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Twenty years of adult education in Southern Africa

3rd Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE 111)

"If You Can't Measure It, It Doesn't Exist"? Popular Education in the Shadows of Global Reporting on Adult Learning and Education.

'The drought is my teacher’: Adult learning and education in times of climate crisis

A Critical Discussion of Democratic Participation Within Community Organisations