Connected Learning: How Adults with Limited Formal Education Learn
L. Lynn Thigpen
Apr 2020 · American Society of Missiology Monograph Series Book 44 · Wipf and Stock Publishers
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How does the world's oral majority--adults with limited formal education (ALFE)--really prefer to learn? Few pause long enough to ask those who eschew print. The result of scholarly research and prolonged immersion in the Cambodian culture, Connected Learning exposes the truth about orality--the shame associated with limited formal education; the unfortunate misnomer that is orality; the place of spirituality, grace, and hope; and the obvious but overlooked learning preferences. ALFE have different ways of learning and knowing, a different epistemology and culture from print learners, even though we all begin alike. The choice is not between Ong's orality or literacy, but between learning from people or from print. Dr. Thigpen, a veteran cross-cultural worker, shares remedies for the hegemony and inequities unwittingly fostered by the literate minority. In a dominant culture where learning from people is prime, how can educators with a preference for print adapt? Providing an important tool in the Learning Quadrants diagram, Connected Learning advises teaching to the quadrant and calls for seven necessary shifts in teaching. Anyone versed in orality will admit these findings have "global implications and applications" (Steffen). The reader who heeds will positively impact a huge portion of humanity.
About the author
Lynn Thigpen has served in various capacities in Southeast Asia for over two decades—in training and education, NGO work, healthcare, language and culture coaching, faith-based ministry, theological education, and leader development. Her passion for oral learners or adults with limited formal education (ALFE) led her to pursue doctoral studies at Biola University. An adjunct professor of Global Studies at Liberty University, she hopes to train the next generation of sensitive and competent cross-cultural experts.
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