This month I will dedicate my posts to the adult basic education students who are taking online learning. Particularly those at the post-secondary level, where it can sometimes seem like students are round pegs being squeezed into square holes. The gaps in service grow more profound due to changing paradigms, along with political and economic factors.
This month I will be writing about issues that create gaps for online students at the pre-highschool levels. Areas such as standardization, cultural homogeny, translating face to face success online, community building, and learning needs and the issues that contribute to student success. I will examine some of the realities faced by students who need dedicated programming to achieve the prerequisites to get into a career or trade, and the best practices that go along with those realities.
“One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.” ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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