Resumen de Conceptual challenges in understanding innovative education in organizational context
The paper suggests shifts in educational thinking about adult and continuing education practices in-cluding: goal setting, nature of the learner, character of education, and its elements including the sources in the educational process, evaluation of its out-comes, and social (micro-social) role of educationThe author explores innovative vs. conventional adult learning, and introduces several new ap-proaches to adult education. Several conceptual challenges (paradoxes) are considered that do not fit the traditional educationalist’s thinking. The con-ceptual shifts are explored as cognitive gaps, leading to insights about the nature of adult education, and pragmatic changes in shaping education to transform individual and collective experience.
