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All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year Sort by creator [A → Z]' creator [Z → A]' publishing year ↑ (asc)' publishing year ↓ (desc)' title [A → Z]' title [Z → A]' Simple Search Hits 1 – 1 of 1 1 Adult Educators at the Crossroads of Language Learning and Workforce Development: A Qualitative Study of Teacher Agency Ging, Liz In: Graduate Masters Theses (2019) Abstract: Since the passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) in 2014, there has been renewed questioning about the nature and purpose of adult education programs in the United States, including English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). The heavy workforce development orientation of the new law is a starker manifestation of trends focused on job training which have been sweeping through the field of adult education for the last few decades. In the midst of these shifts, little research has been done to investigate what the educators charged with meeting these policy goals think about these changes, the nature of their work in this context, and how they negotiate any challenges or contradictions the situation presents. This case-study used cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) and a thematic analysis to investigate adult education ESOL teachers' perspectives about this system and their own agency within it. CHAT informed the project during its preliminary phases. The study found that the greater resources and rule-making powers of the federal policymaking activity system exert pressure on the local adult education activity system, transforming teachers’ imagined objects into the economic outcomes prioritized at the federal level. Despite this, the teachers in the study creatively used their own agency to interact with the tools, community, and division of labor within their programs, in an effort to preserve their own goals. Keyword: Adult and Continuing Education; Adult education; Cultural historical activity theory; Education Policy; English for Speakers of Other Languages; First and Second Language Acquisition; Neoliberalism; Teacher cognition; Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act URL: https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/591 https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1592&context=masters_theses BASE Hide details

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