EDU784: Adult Education Leadership: Government

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
15

Overview

Government Adult Education Leadership covers the principles and practices of being a leader in a government organization with adult education programs. It provides the knowledge, skills and abilities to accurately and completely assess and utilize principles, strategies and methodologies for leading government adult education programs. The course blends two instructional strategies. First, the student explores the basic principles and related practices, strategies and methodologies of leadership in government adult education programs. Second, the student applies these learned principles and practices in a sponsored synthesizing project applying adult education leadership principles, strategies and methodologies in a government adult learning organization.

The course project, Government Adult Education Leadership, is designed to demonstrate mastery of the course objectives. The application of adult education leadership will be conducted for one of the sponsoring organization’s government adult education programs. A final written report, Government Adult Education Leadership, detailing the process and outcomes of applying the learned leadership principles, strategies and methodologies for one of the sponsoring organization’s adult education programs will be the synthesizing course project.

Course Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Identify and assess training and education programs for government employees.
  • Compare and contrast training and education programs for government supervisors and managers.
  • Discuss and differentiate training and education programs for government executives.
  • Identify and evaluate training and education programs for political appointees in government.
  • Recognize and explain the major contributions of government to the field of adult education.
  • Describe and evaluate the major contemporary issue in government training and education programs.
  • Appraise and discuss the role of the US Department of Education in adult education in the US.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Required Texts
EDU784 texts are available from the JIU/Follett Bookstore