Adult and Continuing Education Students' Success and Intergenerational Socio-Economic Mobility in Era of Rapid Global Technology

We are now in a knowledge-based age and economy. Through this new era, we have seen the ascension of socioeconomic globalization, or the interconnectedness of the world economies. The vast reach of globalization and technology have had both positive and negative effects on adult, continuing, and postsecondary education. For instance, college access is at an all-time high (Kenworthy and Marx, 2017) as globalization and technology have revolutionized access to education, yet, there are still ever-growing disparities in wealth and socioeconomic mobility across the globe (Atkinson and Lakner, 2013). In response to this, this paper suggests the theories of Human Capital, Resilience, Family Systems, and Humanistic Adult Learning can be combined to make a holistic integrative model. The researchers of this paper have hypothesized that this integrative model is profoundly relevant and incorporate foundational elements that adult, continuing, postsecondary education students ought to master to achieve sustainable intergenerational socioeconomic mobility; and therefore, help combat the negative effects (implicit and explicit) of globalization and technology (Bastedo, Altbach, & Gumport, 2016) (Doménech-Betoret, Abellán-Roselló, and Gómez-Artiga, A. 2017). [For the full proceedings, see ED597456.]