Social Roles
A person who is studying at a school or college
What is a Student?
Learning settings sponsored by educational institutions.
What is Formal Learning?
Two-year government supported institution that offers an associate degree. Offering low tuition, convenient location, and open admissions.
What is a Community College?
Length of time a person has lived
What is Age?
A young person being below the age of puberty and dependent on others
What is a Child?
A Mother or a Father
What is a Parent?
Individuals assess their own learning activities
What is Self Directed Learning?
Typically money that is owed or due
What is Debt?
Not attending college Full-time
What is Part-time?
Utilities, Rent, Mortgage, Phone, Cable, Internet, Insurance etc....
What are Bills?
A wife or a husband
What is a spouse?
Men and women seek to improve themselves or their society by increasing their skill, knowledge or sensitiveness.
What is Adult Education?
Awarded to students upon successful completion of a program.
What is a Degree?
You can support yourself and others
What is being Independent?
The government takes this out of your paycheck in order to fund other public expenses
What are Taxes?
A person working 40 or more hours a week
What is a Full-Time Employee?
These factors affect Adult Participation:
1. Situational
2. Institutional
3. Dispositional
4. Structural
What are Constraints?
Arnett (2008) said "This socioeconomic class and individual have little in the way of social obligations, little in the way of duties, and commitments to others, which leaves them with a great deal of autonomy in running their own lives."
Who are Middle-Class White College Students?
A term that identify individuals who attend community colleges and often come from ethnically diverse and immigrant-origin backgrounds
What is the "New Forgotten Half?"
Cooking instead of eating out.
Using Coupons.
Creating a budget list.
What is Saving Money?