Teaching for social capital outcomes-Annotated bibliography

Annotated bibliography

Balatti , J , Black , S Falk , I . 2007 , `Teaching for social capital outcomes : the case of adult literacy and numeracy courses , Australian Journal of Adult learning , vol . 47 , no . 2 , pp . 245-263 . Jo Balatti is a research associate and a lecturer in the School of Education at James Cook University , Queensland . She has concentrated her research in adult learning in formal and informal settings . Ian Frank is a professor at the University of Northern Territory . He heads the Faculty of Science Information Technology and Education as the Research Chair . His areas

of research include adult learning , social capital , learning communities and lifelong learning . Stephen Black is a lecturer at Northern Sidney Institute who has been working on an Innovative adult literacy project for the past one and a half years . As the Head Teacher at Meadowbank TAFE . He has been involved in educating people who are diverse culturally and linguistically about the risks of type 2 diabetes and its prevention . In this article , the authors ' argument is that participation in education and training can produce social capital outcomes which are very useful in enhancing other outcomes to develop e .g . human capital The authors goes on to argue that there is strong evidence that shows that development can lead to improvement of the learners and the society in which they live in terms of social economic well being . The theoretical perspective of the authors is that teachers produce capital outcomes by aiming at achieving adult literacy and this helps...