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A Holistic Conceptualization Of Adult Learning And Its Critiques Of Selected Concepts And Theories, Baiyin Yang Sep 2006

A Holistic Conceptualization Of Adult Learning And Its Critiques Of Selected Concepts And Theories, Baiyin Yang

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper critically evaluates several contemporary concepts and theories of adult learning. Most of existing adult learning theories and conceptualizations tend to narrowly define knowledge and learning. Holistic learning theory provides an integrative framework that can be used adequately explain many propositions of major contemporary theories and concepts of adult learning.

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Establishing A Lifelong Learning System By Developing Higher Vocational Education: A Case Of China, Jie Xiong Sep 2006

Establishing A Lifelong Learning System By Developing Higher Vocational Education: A Case Of China, Jie Xiong

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper reveals that higher vocational education (HVE) is playing a key role for establishing a lifelong learning system in China. Discussions are based on the theory that higher education is at the core to build a lifelong learning system with a focus on the concept of vertical integration.

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Table Of Contents, Editorial Board, And Other Front Matter, Joan Thomson Sep 2006

Table Of Contents, Editorial Board, And Other Front Matter, Joan Thomson

Journal of Applied Communications

Editorial front matter and table of contents for vol. 90, no. 3 (2006) of Journal of Applied Communications

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Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 34, No. 1, Fall 2006, Festus E. Obiakor Sep 2006

Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 34, No. 1, Fall 2006, Festus E. Obiakor

Educational Considerations

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 34, no. 1, Fall 2006

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Beyond Narrow Confines: Special Education Leadership For Ethnically Diverse Urban Learners, Gathogo Mukuria, Festus E. Obiakor Sep 2006

Beyond Narrow Confines: Special Education Leadership For Ethnically Diverse Urban Learners, Gathogo Mukuria, Festus E. Obiakor

Educational Considerations

Human frailties exist in everyone. There are some things that we know and some that we do not know.

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Changing Roles Of Special Education Administrators: Impact On Multicultural Learners., Jeffrey P. Bakken, Mary O'Brian, Debra L. Shelden Sep 2006

Changing Roles Of Special Education Administrators: Impact On Multicultural Learners., Jeffrey P. Bakken, Mary O'Brian, Debra L. Shelden

Educational Considerations

The standards movement has been a part of education for almost the last half century.

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Managing Transition And Student Support Services For Ethnically Diverse College Students With Learning Disabilities, Sunday O. Obi Sep 2006

Managing Transition And Student Support Services For Ethnically Diverse College Students With Learning Disabilities, Sunday O. Obi

Educational Considerations

Postsecondary transition for students with disabilities continues to be challenging.

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Building Successful Multicultural Special Education Programs Through Innovative Leadership, Festus E. Obiakor, Floyd D. Beachum, Darrell Williams, Carlos R. Mccray Sep 2006

Building Successful Multicultural Special Education Programs Through Innovative Leadership, Festus E. Obiakor, Floyd D. Beachum, Darrell Williams, Carlos R. Mccray

Educational Considerations

Across America’s schools, administrators are faced with various educational challenges.

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Abusive Administration: A Case Study, Anne L. Jefferson Sep 2006

Abusive Administration: A Case Study, Anne L. Jefferson

Educational Considerations

In the academic world, there is an assumption of reasonable administrative conduct. In fact, to ensure such conduct, universities, like other public institutions, may have collective agreements to reinforce this assumption.

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Educational Considerations, Vol. 34(1) Full Issue, Festus E. Obiakor Sep 2006

Educational Considerations, Vol. 34(1) Full Issue, Festus E. Obiakor

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 34(1)-Fall 2006-Full issue

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Musical Chairs: Preparing Extension Communication Units For Inevitable Change, Margaret Herring, Thomas Knecht, Ashley Wood, Carol Whatley, Erik Anderson, Ken Spelke Sep 2006

Musical Chairs: Preparing Extension Communication Units For Inevitable Change, Margaret Herring, Thomas Knecht, Ashley Wood, Carol Whatley, Erik Anderson, Ken Spelke

Journal of Applied Communications

What happens when a new university administration doesn't know what Extension does or why an Extension communication unit exists? In this paper, a group of Extension administrators and faculty examines several reasons university administrators might seek to downsize Extension services or eliminate their communication units. This paper identifies strengths inherent in communication units that will help university administrators understand the importance and contributions of Extension communicators. The paper also explores how to prepare a communication unit for inevitable change, especially if there will be one less chair at the table when the music stops.

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Who Is An Ace Member? Results From A 2005 Ace Member Survey, Rebecca Mcgovney-Ingram, Tracy Irani, Ricky Telg Sep 2006

Who Is An Ace Member? Results From A 2005 Ace Member Survey, Rebecca Mcgovney-Ingram, Tracy Irani, Ricky Telg

Journal of Applied Communications

This study describes the demographics of the population of current, active, U.S.-based agricultural communications practitioner respondents in the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE) in an effort to gain a better understanding of membership demographics. In fall 2004, the researchers mailed questionnaires to 510 ACE members. Returned questionnaires were accepted through January 2005 and processed in the following months. The overall response rate was 35.1% (n = 179). Analysis of demographic results showed that the majority of U.S. respondents were female (58.8%, n = 104) and Caucasian (95%, n = 168). More …

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On Twain, Typewriters, And Technology, Mark Tucker Sep 2006

On Twain, Typewriters, And Technology, Mark Tucker

Journal of Applied Communications

For many ACE members, our feelings about the bundle of electronic innovations we call "communication technology" depend on the day you ask us. On good days, we're thankful for progress; on bad days, some of us long for simpler times.

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Ace Membership Information; The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center Search System., Joan Thomson Sep 2006

Ace Membership Information; The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center Search System., Joan Thomson

Journal of Applied Communications

ACE membership information; the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center search system.

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Valuing Exceptional Ethnic Minority Voices: New Leadership For A New Era, Festus E. Obiakor Sep 2006

Valuing Exceptional Ethnic Minority Voices: New Leadership For A New Era, Festus E. Obiakor

Educational Considerations

Educators and school leaders have continued to look for new ways of thinking and doing as they confront changes and shifts in paradigms and power. [Introduction to this special issue.]

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The Role Of Administrators In Paraprofessional Supervision To Support Ethnic Minority Students With Special Needs, Betty Y. Ashbaker, Jill Morgan Sep 2006

The Role Of Administrators In Paraprofessional Supervision To Support Ethnic Minority Students With Special Needs, Betty Y. Ashbaker, Jill Morgan

Educational Considerations

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 provided a clear mandate to school administrators to provide additional training for professional and paraprofessional staff.

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Social Studies Methods Students Engaged In Service-Learning: Reciprocity Is The Key, Saundra Wetig Sep 2006

Social Studies Methods Students Engaged In Service-Learning: Reciprocity Is The Key, Saundra Wetig

Educational Considerations

As a social studies educator, I have found myself at the end of each semester reflecting on my preservice teachers’ practicum experiences.

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Impact Statements: So What? Who Cares?, Bob Rost, Dennis Brown, Dennis Hinkamp Sep 2006

Impact Statements: So What? Who Cares?, Bob Rost, Dennis Brown, Dennis Hinkamp

Journal of Applied Communications

The growing importance attached to impact reporting at landgrant universities around the United States in recent years has made the development and distribution of impact statements a major annual priority in most land-grant university communication offices.

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Life Is Fast, Research Is Slow, Dennis Hinkamp Sep 2006

Life Is Fast, Research Is Slow, Dennis Hinkamp

Journal of Applied Communications

Would you conduct research if your job advancement and tenure were not dependent on it? What percentage of ACE members are on the tenure track? Does the JAC need a readership survey or a nonreadership survey?

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What Are Agriculture Industry Professionals Trying To Tell Us? Implications For University-Level Agricultural Communications Curricula, David L. Doerfert, René P. Miller Sep 2006

What Are Agriculture Industry Professionals Trying To Tell Us? Implications For University-Level Agricultural Communications Curricula, David L. Doerfert, René P. Miller

Journal of Applied Communications

Two recent activities have solicited the input of professionals on the future of agricultural communications within the agriculture industry. This paper reexamines these industry-based information and research activities for potential themes that could impact the current and future direction of communications-related activities within the agriculture profession. A reexamination of the outcomes of these two activities may provide insight and guidance for curricular and degree changes being considered by university-level agricultural communications educators. The four themes identified and discussed in this article are as follows: (a) the rapidly changing communication needs, wants, and expectations of the agriculture industry; (b) the new …

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A Different Definition Of “Boob-Tube”: What Dr. Catherine Gale, Of The Avengers, Taught Women, Robin Redmon Wright Aug 2006

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.

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D Intellectual Resistance As Impetus For Lifelong Learning For Social Justice, Kristopher Wells Aug 2006

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.

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The Value Of Immigrant Parents, The Power Of Effective Adult Education: Fueling Viable Parent Involvement Through School-Based Adult Esl Classes, Robin A. Waterman Aug 2006

The Value Of Immigrant Parents, The Power Of Effective Adult Education: Fueling Viable Parent Involvement Through School-Based Adult Esl Classes, Robin A. Waterman

Adult Education Research Conference

This quasi-experimental study compares school-based adult ESL classes intentionally focused on parent involvement with those that are not. It addresses the need for empirical research of adult ESL instruction that integrates the most compelling goal of vast numbers of adult ESL students: supporting their children’s school success.

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How Adults Learn About Multicultural Diversity Through Participating In The Arts, Sherre Wesley Aug 2006

How Adults Learn About Multicultural Diversity Through Participating In The Arts, Sherre Wesley

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper explores the ways in which participating in the arts – through creating, attending or organizing – helps adults learn about multicultural diversity. Learning methods, environments, and key experiences are discussed.

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Measuring Social Capital In Adult Education Projects, Jeff Zacharakis Aug 2006

Measuring Social Capital In Adult Education Projects, Jeff Zacharakis

Adult Education Research Conference

This theoretical research analyzes the measurement of social capital in adult education and community development projects that seek to strengthen democratic processes and develop local leadership. It analyzes two different methodologies—in depth interviews and Web-based questionnaires—used to measure social capital.

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Adult Education, Assessment And The Beginnings Of The Ged, Amy D. Rose Aug 2006

Adult Education, Assessment And The Beginnings Of The Ged, Amy D. Rose

Adult Education Research Conference

This study examines the development and implementation of the General Educational Development (GED) examination in the United States. It examines the ways that the GED was initially conceptualized and how the notion of equivalence was popularized.

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A Majestic Burden: Discovering The Untold Stories Of Congressional Black Caucus (Cbc) Women And Learning Through Narrative Analysis8, Elice E. Rogers Aug 2006

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.

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Deconstructing Heterosexual Privilege With New Science Metaphors, Tonette S. Rocco, Suzanne J. Gallagher Aug 2006

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.

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Developing Communicative Competence: Methodological Considerations For Conducting Qualitative Research With Spanish-Speaking Adult Learners, Esther Prins, Ana Guisela Chupina Aug 2006

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.

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The Power Of One: Engagement As The Key To Highly Effective Clinical Instruction, Dan Pratt, Ric Arseneau Aug 2006

The Power Of One: Engagement As The Key To Highly Effective Clinical Instruction, Dan Pratt, Ric Arseneau

Adult Education Research Conference

Twenty-two medical students and forty-one clinical faculty speculated on the results of an unusual study. Their speculations resulted in fourteen factors and six propositions that describe the nature of highly effective clinical teaching.

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