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A Different Approach To Family Involvement, Leslie Patterson, Shelia Baldwin, Rubén Gonzales, Irma Guadarrama, Liz Keith Jul 1999

A Different Approach To Family Involvement, Leslie Patterson, Shelia Baldwin, Rubén Gonzales, Irma Guadarrama, Liz Keith

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

The Houston Chronicle recently quoted a school counselor who blamed low student achievement on parents, whom he called "a bunch of seventh-grade dropouts who can't add 2 plus 2" (Houston Chronicle, 1998, p. 21A). As educators, we see too many of our colleagues play that blame game as we try to respond to increasing public pressure to make schools "work." The logic goes something like this: "We are doing everything we know how, and these children still are not succeeding. If only their parents would (fill in the blank), everything would be just fine."


The Dialogic Self: Language And Identity In Annie Ernaux , Warren Johnson Jun 1999

The Dialogic Self: Language And Identity In Annie Ernaux , Warren Johnson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The nine largely autobiographical texts that Annie Ernaux (1940- ) has published to date, which range stylistically from early strident outpourings to the willed transparency of an "écriture plate," all reveal the narrator as a patchwork subjectivity comprised of the discourses surrounding the child, adolescent, and adult against which she reacts, frequently without comprehending her own motivations. I try to unravel the strands that make up Ernaux's language and explore how the self that emerges is an aggregate of the discursive spaces she has inhabited. I trace as well how her gender identity impacts her capacity and willingness to struggle …


An Analytical Framework For Cross-Cultural Studies Of Teaching, Daniel D. Pratt May 1999

An Analytical Framework For Cross-Cultural Studies Of Teaching, Daniel D. Pratt

Adult Education Research Conference

Working cross-culturally, whether defined by discipline, institution, community, or nation-state, inherently means working outside the familiar. The aim of this paper is to present an analytical framework through which to explore and understand different conceptions of teaching. The framework consists of three analytical categories: epistemic beliefs, normative expectations, and pedagogical procedures.


Applying Insights From Cultural Studies To Adult Education: What Seinfeld Says About The Aerc, Nod Miller May 1999

Applying Insights From Cultural Studies To Adult Education: What Seinfeld Says About The Aerc, Nod Miller

Adult Education Research Conference

The zany adventures of a glamorous British professor who goes to an important international conference but spends most of her time searching for a TV in order to watch her favourite sitcom. Despite her commitment to 'no hugging, no learning', she gains some profound insights into mass culture, adult education, friendship and postmodernity as a result. Parental guidance suggested.


Reflection Plus 4: Classifying Alternate Perspectives In Experiential Learning, Tara Fenwick May 1999

Reflection Plus 4: Classifying Alternate Perspectives In Experiential Learning, Tara Fenwick

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper presents five theoretical perspectives that can inform experiential learning. A rationale for this typology is outlined briefly, then each perspective is described according to learning dimensions such as view of knowledge, learner, power, and role of educator. A chart summary comparing these perspectives will be distributed at the session.


For Adults Only: Queer Theory Meets The Self And Identity In Adult Education, A. Brooks, K. Edwards May 1999

For Adults Only: Queer Theory Meets The Self And Identity In Adult Education, A. Brooks, K. Edwards

Adult Education Research Conference

This article brings the perspective of "Queer theory" to the field of Adult Education as a way of examining critically the notions of self, identity, and sexuality as they have been taken for granted within the field. Adult Education, like most fields of practice and research, assumes the Western ideals of the monadic self, clear and undisputed identities, and heterosexuality. However, the intersection of a strong postmodern voice in both academia and the popular culture, the increasing exploration of other-than-hetero-sexualities in the media, and the foregrounding of sexuality in the work of adult education researchers (Brooks & Edwards,1997; Edwards, 1997; …


Civil Society, Cultural Hegemony, And Citizenship: Implications For Adult Educators, Pat Durish, Rachel Gorman, Morrell Shahrzad, Daniel Schugurensky, Deborah Sword May 1999

Civil Society, Cultural Hegemony, And Citizenship: Implications For Adult Educators, Pat Durish, Rachel Gorman, Morrell Shahrzad, Daniel Schugurensky, Deborah Sword

Adult Education Research Conference

The participants in this symposium provide a panorama of positions about civil society, citizenship and the dynamics of the exercise of power in the world of adult education. Theoretical approaches range from postmodernism to cultural studies to Marxist and critical theoretical positions. Case studies are equally diverse, ranging from North and Latin America to the Middle East.


Between L'Irréparable And L'Irrepérable: Subject To The Past, Downing Thomas, Steven Ungar Jan 1999

Between L'Irréparable And L'Irrepérable: Subject To The Past, Downing Thomas, Steven Ungar

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This issue of STCL grew from papers presented at a conference, "Memory in Context: Occupation and Empire in France and the Francophone World," held at the University of Iowa in April, 1996...