Community-Supported Learning: Practicums, Adult Education and Post-Secondary Institutions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Practicums are a form of adult education that moves the post-secondary institution beyond the classroom and into the community. As adult learning experiences, they are unparalleled, combining the resources of the academy with the opportunities of the wider world. This paper will explore the links between adult education and post-secondary institutions through the phenomenon of the practicum. Using a tripartite lens of social, experiential and workplace learning, it will examine a particular practicum course to understand how it enables communities of practice – ongoing processes of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavour (Wenger, 2011). These communities of practice, in turn, foster what can be understood as community-supported learning, part of the foundation of ‘really useful knowledge’ that characterizes the broad and vital mission of adult education. Les stages sont une forme d’éducation des adultes qui sort l’apprentissage postsecondaire de la salle de classe et la situe dans la communauté. En tant qu’expériences d’apprentissage pour les adultes, ils sont inégalés, alliant les ressources d’une institution académique aux occasions du reste du monde. Cet article explorera les liens entre l’éducation des adultes et les institutions postsecondaires par le biais du phénomène des stages. S’appuyant sur la perspective tripartite de l’apprentissage social, expérientiel et en milieu de travail, l’article examinera un stage en particulier de sorte à comprendre comment il rend possible des communautés de pratique – des processus permanents d’apprentissage collectif dans une sphère partagée d’activité humaine (Wenger, 2011). Ces communautés de pratique, à leur tour, favorisent ce qu’on peut nommer l’apprentissage appuyé par la communauté, composante du fondement de « connaissances très utiles » qui caractérisent la mission élargie et vitale qu’est celle de l’éducation des adultes. Mots clés : stage, éducation des adultes, apprentissage appuyé par la communauté
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".