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A 12 page research paper (plus one-page outline) that addresses how current welfare reform has impacted adult and vocational education, which places its emphasis on putting people into jobs, any sort of job, as the first step in the welfare process, rather than developing the basic and job-related skills for obtaining gainful employment. Furthermore, the 1996 Act severely limits the time that a family can receive cash assistance for educational purposes. Therefore, adult and vocational educators are having to rethink their role in relation to current welfare reform (Imel, 1998). Consequently, the primary question before adult and vocational educators is how best to implement the 1996 legislation. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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rather than developing the basic and job-related skills for obtaining gainful employment. Furthermore, the 1996 Act severely limits the time that a family can receive cash assistance for educational purposes.
Therefore, adult and vocational educators are having to rethink their role in relation to current welfare reform (Imel, 1998). Consequently, the primary question before adult and vocational educators is how
best to implement the 1996 legislation. I) Background history of 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation A) The 1996 welfare reform legislation stipulates that welfare recipients have to earn their benefits.
1) One way that they can fulfill this obligation is through their participation in various training efforts, which includes technical/vocational schools (Tang and Smith-Brandon, 2001). B) Prior to the
current welfare reform, federal programs encompassed educational components that focused on aiding recipients in the goal of enhancing their basic skills and obtaining job-related training (Shields and Behrman, 2002). Philosophical
issues for educators C) Research shows that educators are divided as to precisely how, they should facilitate the goals of the 1996 law. D) These educators feel that there are
serious ethical dilemmas facing adult educators that arise due to the fact that adult learners are increasingly forced out of community-based literacy programs in favor of work-fare and job-search programs,
which tend to create adult learners who can be considered as "exploitable surplus laborers" rather than "empowered political actors" (De la Pena McCook and Barber, 2002, p. 66). II)
Implementation of welfare reform legislation/impact on adult and vocational education A) A 1995 study that addressed the literacy skills of welfare recipients came to the conclusion that "in the
adult population as a whole, the likelihood of being on welfare goes up as literacy levels go down" and that the two factors are "intertwined" (Barton and Jenkins, 1995, p.
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