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Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate
Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate
Faculty Senate
Meeting regarding salaries, football, faculty survey, graduation rate, curriculum committee and athletics committee recall.
What Do You Do When The Law Doesn’T Work? Adult Educators’ Role In Fighting Workplace Discrimination, Ann Brooks, Tamara Clunis
What Do You Do When The Law Doesn’T Work? Adult Educators’ Role In Fighting Workplace Discrimination, Ann Brooks, Tamara Clunis
Adult Education Research Conference
An analysis of research suggests that ethnic/racial group members lack informal access to developmental opportunities in the workplace. Legal scholars critique Title VII law as ineffective in current organizations. Research shows the work of adult educators is critical in fighting discrimination in the absence of effective legal protection.
Critical Adult Learning Of Immigrant Workers: A Social Network Perspective, Moosung Lee
Critical Adult Learning Of Immigrant Workers: A Social Network Perspective, Moosung Lee
Adult Education Research Conference
Why does one immigrant worker get involved in critical learning whereas another does not? This study attempted to answer the question by revealing how social ties of immigrant workers play a key role in mediating critical learning to a particular political attitude. The results of the study suggested that immigrant workers who showed a resistant political attitude, which is linked to the process of critical learning, tended to have more social ties and occupy more important socio-structural positions in their network than other peer workers.
Novice Physician-Scientists’ Learning In Communities Of Practice, Min-Fen Wang, Lori L. Bakken
Novice Physician-Scientists’ Learning In Communities Of Practice, Min-Fen Wang, Lori L. Bakken
Adult Education Research Conference
This study drew from sociocultural theory to understand novice physician-scientists’ (PSs) clinical research learning experience in the workplaces. The findings suggest that there are various forms of research participation marginalized in the PS-communities. The structural dimension of workplace learning context, such as gender, culture, power, and access needs more attention.
Action Items, Wku Graduate Council
Action Items, Wku Graduate Council
Graduate School
Overview of action items handled by the Graduate Council.
A Different Definition Of “Boob-Tube”: What Dr. Catherine Gale, Of The Avengers, Taught Women, Robin Redmon Wright
A Different Definition Of “Boob-Tube”: What Dr. Catherine Gale, Of The Avengers, Taught Women, Robin Redmon Wright
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper summarizes a qualitative research project exploring the impact of the first feminist television character, Cathy Gale, of the 1962-64 British television program, The Avengers. Contemporaneous British women viewers reveal how Gale’s character helped them reject traditional roles, incorporate the character’s strengths, and seek out other feminist role models.
D Intellectual Resistance As Impetus For Lifelong Learning For Social Justice, Kristopher Wells
D Intellectual Resistance As Impetus For Lifelong Learning For Social Justice, Kristopher Wells
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper employs critical social learning perspectives to investigate the themes of emotional resilience, intellectual resistance, and lifelong learning evident in the experiences of three gay male young adults whom I situate as activist-educators. I discuss how these young adults integrate emotional labour and social learning into resistance work to create counterpublics, which lay challenge to exclusionary heteronormative educational spaces.
A Majestic Burden: Discovering The Untold Stories Of Congressional Black Caucus (Cbc) Women And Learning Through Narrative Analysis8, Elice E. Rogers
A Majestic Burden: Discovering The Untold Stories Of Congressional Black Caucus (Cbc) Women And Learning Through Narrative Analysis8, Elice E. Rogers
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this completed research investigation is to articulate three of four final research findings as part of a larger study that investigated diverse leadership among an under-represented group and to extend current research on African American women political leaders.
Deconstructing Heterosexual Privilege With New Science Metaphors, Tonette S. Rocco, Suzanne J. Gallagher
Deconstructing Heterosexual Privilege With New Science Metaphors, Tonette S. Rocco, Suzanne J. Gallagher
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of the paper is to deconstruct heterosexual privilege in adult education through exploring metaphors in quantum physics and ecology. Binary heterosexist boundaries are re-envisioned and alternative adult learning and education processes are suggested.
Developing Communicative Competence: Methodological Considerations For Conducting Qualitative Research With Spanish-Speaking Adult Learners, Esther Prins, Ana Guisela Chupina
Developing Communicative Competence: Methodological Considerations For Conducting Qualitative Research With Spanish-Speaking Adult Learners, Esther Prins, Ana Guisela Chupina
Adult Education Research Conference
This article analyzes how we responded to socio-linguistic challenges in our research with Spanish-speaking adults in the U.S. and El Salvador. Our respective racial/ethnic identities, first language, and insider or outsider status created distinctive challenges and communicative strategies. We argue that cross-cultural researchers must recognize socio-linguistic variation within groups and develop communicative competence.
Integrating The ‘Other’ In Adult Education Curriculum: The Case Of An Indian Tradition, Linda Ziegahn, Beloo Mehra
Integrating The ‘Other’ In Adult Education Curriculum: The Case Of An Indian Tradition, Linda Ziegahn, Beloo Mehra
Adult Education Research Conference
In order to truly globalize the field of adult education, a de-centering of Euro-centric frameworks is needed as we simultaneously integrate non-Western knowledge systems in curricular offerings and theoretical development. This paper explores selected aspects of the philosophy and discipline of Integral Yoga, and presents an example of a curriculum innovation.
Activist Forest Monks, Environmental Adult Education And The Construction Of Civil Society In Thailand, Pierre Walter
Activist Forest Monks, Environmental Adult Education And The Construction Of Civil Society In Thailand, Pierre Walter
Adult Education Research Conference
Situated at the intersection of adult learning in social movements, the construction of civil society, and environmental adult education, the grassroots movement of Buddhist “forest monks” in Thailand has much to teach us. This paper charts the movement’s history, philosophy, and practice in the construction of Thai civil society.
Mapping Cognitive Engagement In Adult Literacy Classrooms, Thomas Valentine, Judy Milton, Anastasiya A. Lipnevich, Harold Beder
Mapping Cognitive Engagement In Adult Literacy Classrooms, Thomas Valentine, Judy Milton, Anastasiya A. Lipnevich, Harold Beder
Adult Education Research Conference
Using exploratory factor analysis to examine self-reported survey data from adult learners, this study identified three factors of cognitive engagement in the adult literacy classroom: program involvement, focus, and independent effort. A model that demonstrates the impact of independent effort on gains in reading test scores was developed using multivariate analysis.
Periphery Of Practice: Chinese Immigrant Women Navigating The Canadian Labour Market, Hongxia Shan
Periphery Of Practice: Chinese Immigrant Women Navigating The Canadian Labour Market, Hongxia Shan
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper proposes periphery of practice as a conceptual lens to examine the learning experiences engaged by Chinese immigrant women navigating the Canadian labour market.
Knowledge Production At The Cutting Edge?: A Content Analysis Of Aerc Papers From 1995-2005, Lisa Troy
Knowledge Production At The Cutting Edge?: A Content Analysis Of Aerc Papers From 1995-2005, Lisa Troy
Adult Education Research Conference
Adult Education Research Conference presentations are analyzed from 1995 through 2005 for content and authorship gender. This analysis compares findings from this time period with findings from the 1970’s and the late 1980’s.
Adult Students And Adult Literacy Practitioners Disconnected: Differing Perspectives Of Adult Students’ Needs, Lesley E. Tomaszewski
Adult Students And Adult Literacy Practitioners Disconnected: Differing Perspectives Of Adult Students’ Needs, Lesley E. Tomaszewski
Adult Education Research Conference
Adult Education Research Conference presentations are analyzed from 1995 through 2005 for content and authorship gender. This analysis compares findings from this time period with findings from the 1970’s and the late 1980’s.
(Re)Discovering Self Women's Construction Of Identities: Socio-Cultural View, E. V. Swai
(Re)Discovering Self Women's Construction Of Identities: Socio-Cultural View, E. V. Swai
Adult Education Research Conference
Through an analysis of how women participate in constructing their identities, this paper interrogates the notions of construction of identity (womanhood identity) as a learning activity among women in Lukani Tanzania. Current dominant theoretical framework in adult education and feminist literature have typically positioned African women as “unknowers” and marginalized in the process of knowledge construction and learning-a link thoroughly constructed both by positivists and poststructural theorists who have called attention to African women’s limitation in participating in learning and development.
“Crash”-Ing Into Pop Culture In Dealing With Diversity: Adult Education And Critical Media Literacy About Movies And Television, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Patricia M. Thompson
“Crash”-Ing Into Pop Culture In Dealing With Diversity: Adult Education And Critical Media Literacy About Movies And Television, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Patricia M. Thompson
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper reports on the qualitative component of a study of what adult educators and adult learners “learn” about themselves and others based on portrayals of characters in film and television more generally, with particular attention to the recent Paul Haggis film “Crash.”
A Critical Review Of The Empirical Research Of Transformative Learning (1999-2005), Edward W. Taylor
A Critical Review Of The Empirical Research Of Transformative Learning (1999-2005), Edward W. Taylor
Adult Education Research Conference
This is a review of transformative learning (TL) since 1998 involving 40 empirical studies. Findings include trends of less emphasis on identifying transformative experiences in different setting, and more about fostering TL and better understanding the nature of critical reflection, relationships, a perspective transformation, and context. Also, research designs are becoming more sophisticated.
Destabilizing The Center, Disrupting The Flow: Culture, Mobility, And Learning In The Construction Of Female Identity, Barbara Sparks
Destabilizing The Center, Disrupting The Flow: Culture, Mobility, And Learning In The Construction Of Female Identity, Barbara Sparks
Adult Education Research Conference
This study looked at how women experience the destabilizing effects of change when the flow of their lives is disrupted, either intentionally or unintentionally? The life histories of four women reveal themes of opportunities for re-forming identities, cultural aspects of the self which create meaning for the self and one’s place in the world, and historical factors and positioning within temporal parameters.
A Cross-Case Analysis Of How Faculty Connect Learning In Hybrid Courses, Karen Skibba
A Cross-Case Analysis Of How Faculty Connect Learning In Hybrid Courses, Karen Skibba
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative, multiple case study analysis found that faculty use hybrid courses to facilitate learning by creating a continuous learning loop between the in-person and online environments. Connecting learning in both environments helps students acquire and integrate new knowledge, extend and refine knowledge, and use knowledge meaningfully.
Adult Education Enters The Cultural Competency Craze, Michael L. Rowland
Adult Education Enters The Cultural Competency Craze, Michael L. Rowland
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper will provide a brief overview of the literature on cultural competency as it relates to health care. Cultural competency is a strategy to reduce and eliminate inequities in health care that are related to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexual orientation. The paper will provide a framework for health profession educators to understand cultural competency through the lens of adult education.
(Re)Situating Cognition: Expanding Sociocultural Perspectives In Adult Education, Kim L. Niewolny, Arthur L. Wilson
(Re)Situating Cognition: Expanding Sociocultural Perspectives In Adult Education, Kim L. Niewolny, Arthur L. Wilson
Adult Education Research Conference
We review key sociocultural perspectives of learning and cognition to begin to “make good” on the promise of situated cognition in adult education by incorporating its too-often ignored political analysis.
Challenges, Choices And Change: Towards A Theoretical Model Of African Diasporan Women’S Educational Decision Making, Carmela R. Nanton
Challenges, Choices And Change: Towards A Theoretical Model Of African Diasporan Women’S Educational Decision Making, Carmela R. Nanton
Adult Education Research Conference
The decision to participate in adult learning programs is often triggered by life-challenges. The choice for this diverse sample of African diasporan women was adult learning. Components of the decision process, the relationship to ego development level, and resulting changes are examined and a proposed theoretical model is discussed.
Working Late: Exploring The Workplaces, Motivations, And Barriers Of Working Seniors, Vivian W. Mott Ph.D.
Working Late: Exploring The Workplaces, Motivations, And Barriers Of Working Seniors, Vivian W. Mott Ph.D.
Adult Education Research Conference
This phenomenological research explored the nature of seniors’ employment. Findings focused on seniors’ motivations for continuing employment, barriers and coping mechanisms, generational differences, the role of self-directed learning, and the effect of age, status, and experience on security and capital in the workplace.
Queer Race Pedagogy In Adult Higher Education: Dealing With Power Dynamics And Positionality Of Gay Students Of Color, Mitsunori Misawa
Queer Race Pedagogy In Adult Higher Education: Dealing With Power Dynamics And Positionality Of Gay Students Of Color, Mitsunori Misawa
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper presents a theoretical concept of the intersection of race and sexual orientation and to describe Queer Race Pedagogy (QRP) in adult higher education. This paper provides an overview of racism and heterosexism in adult higher education and the two theories that are utilized to develop QRP.
Migrant Workers, Grassroots Transnationalism, And Agency In Learning, Romee Lee
Migrant Workers, Grassroots Transnationalism, And Agency In Learning, Romee Lee
Adult Education Research Conference
A new approach to the lifelong learning paradigm is required to include transnational learners. This research shows that migrant workers, who by definition belong to multiple communities, seek learning experiences to sustain and enhance capabilities as contemporary workers. This is the case for why global non-elites form transnational agency with learning priorities.
Mujeres En Acción—Women In Action: Race, Gender And Economic Self-Sufficiency In A Worker-Owned Housecleaning Cooperative, Luis Kong
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper investigates the experiences of Spanish-speaking Latina immigrants within a worker-owned housecleaning cooperative. Their learning challenges with language, gender, race and class issues in the process of organizing and managing their cooperative business is discussed from a feminist, learning perspective, popular education and community development approaches within immigrant populations.
Being Invisible And A Minority: Adult Undergraduates In The University Classroom, Carol Kasworm Dr.
Being Invisible And A Minority: Adult Undergraduates In The University Classroom, Carol Kasworm Dr.
Adult Education Research Conference
This study explored the social constructed understandings and meanings of student identity for undergraduate adults situated in research universities. Key findings suggested negotiated beliefs and actions within positional and a relational frames of being a minority in number and invisible in a culture focused on young adults.
From Student Activism To A Way Of Life: The Student Activists-Turned-Peasant Activists In South Korea, Sik Son
Adult Education Research Conference
this paper explores the life-experience of six student activists who turned themselves into peasants in their search for social justice and egalitarian society in South Korea. The praxis of the activists crossing class line in the social movement reveals their transformative learning process as well as the development of their own pedagogy of the oppressed.