Progressive, radical and informal community education
I am a writer, an editor and an educator. I am a scientist, and a social scientist. I am a dreamer, and an analytical thinker. I am a pragmatic idealist. I am currently practicing adult education with the Nova Scotia Securities Commission, as an Investor Education and Communications Coordinator. In this role, I am tasked with educating Nova Scotian investors on topics such as smart investing, working with financial advisers, and avoiding investment fraud. This is a challenging mandate, and I have many distinct audiences. On any given day, I may be talking to seniors about investment fraud, facilitating a workshop for recent graduates balancing debt with new savings goals, counseling new parents on education savings, or speaking to school children (future investors) about the importance of saving and budgeting. Each audience, and each specific situation requires a different set of skills, yet all are filtered through my own personal philosophy of what education is and should be, and wha...