Emerging Issues in Community College Education and Student Life

Three credits · Graduate

This course connects adult education with teaching and learning in a community college context. Through a lifelong learning lens emphasizing self-direction and solution-based approaches, course content addresses concepts, theoretical orientations and frameworks crucial for diverse and informed understanding about teaching and learning in Canadian community colleges. Critical perspectives illuminate historical and contemporary ways that student populations, non-formal/experiential education, global digital technologies, and professional development and social justice functions and equity intersect and evolve in community college practices. Three credits.