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Latinas And Adult Development Theories, Loida C. Velazquez
Latinas And Adult Development Theories, Loida C. Velazquez
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative study examined the acculturation path of two groups of Latinas, highly educated professional Hispanic women and female migrant workers, in order to illuminate their human development process.
Two Worlds Of Distance Education: The Function Of Access And Technology, Namin Shin
Two Worlds Of Distance Education: The Function Of Access And Technology, Namin Shin
Adult Education Research Conference
In order to further our understanding of distance education as a social practice, this roundtable session suggests two disparate semantic and geographic worlds of distance education: The world that sees distance education as the means to eliminate the barriers to learning opportunities imposed by societal structure, and the world that views distance education as a technology driven form of education.
Immigrant Women And Labour Flexibility: Resisting Training Through Learning, Shahrzad Mojab, Roxana Ng, Kiran Mirchandani
Immigrant Women And Labour Flexibility: Resisting Training Through Learning, Shahrzad Mojab, Roxana Ng, Kiran Mirchandani
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This research roundtable focuses on the lives and experiences of immigrant women in the context of the casualisation of labour and job deskilling. The presenters document the failure of training programs to challenge the ghettoisation of immigrant women in contingent and peripheral jobs and focus on the ways in which women learn to resist racialized and gendered exclusion in state approaches to training.
Unleashing The Artist Within: New Directions For Research In Adult Education, Randee Lipson Lawrence, Craig A. Mealman
Unleashing The Artist Within: New Directions For Research In Adult Education, Randee Lipson Lawrence, Craig A. Mealman
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The potential for using various art forms (drama, poetry, music, literature, visual art) in the collection and analysis of data, and in the expression of research findings is explored in this roundtable discussion.
A Bourdieuian Perspective On Differences In Adult Learning Styles: Deconstructing Asian Learners, Marie-France Champagne, Pierre Walter
A Bourdieuian Perspective On Differences In Adult Learning Styles: Deconstructing Asian Learners, Marie-France Champagne, Pierre Walter
Adult Education Research Conference
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Narrative Analysis: Uncovering The Truth Of Stories, Lisa M. Baumgartner
Narrative Analysis: Uncovering The Truth Of Stories, Lisa M. Baumgartner
Adult Education Research Conference
The use of narratives as a data source has come under scrutiny (Phillips,1994, 1997). The purpose of this session will be to discuss "truth" as it relates to narratives and to demonstrate methods of narrative analysis using data from a study concerning identity formation in HIV-positive adults.
Experiential Subsistence Learning: Researching The Transformative Moments In Motherwork, Rose Barg
Experiential Subsistence Learning: Researching The Transformative Moments In Motherwork, Rose Barg
Adult Education Research Conference
In this paper I explore the learning and knowledge creation that takes place within the lived experience of motherwork through artful inquiry that includes storytelling, narrative and poesis.
A Gendered Edge: Auto/Biographical Research Into Doctors And Lifelong Learning In The Inner-City, Linden West
A Gendered Edge: Auto/Biographical Research Into Doctors And Lifelong Learning In The Inner-City, Linden West
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This paper considers "lifelong learning" among a group of doctors within the "male" medical profession. It explores their struggle to be effective and reflective practitioners, in a world where subjective knowledge and cultural understanding are often derided, and yet "success" may depend on the integration of medical with cultural and emotional literacy.
Questions For The Adult Educator On A Virtual Odyssey: An Analysis Of Internet And Web-Based Learning, Sue Webb
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines the argument that lifelong learning should become increasingly dependent on education technology because this will alleviate many of the barriers to learning adults face. Lifelong learning is diverse, and so caution is needed when generalising from case specific research. The premise that new learning technologies promote social inclusion is still relatively untested.
Practicing Citizens: Adult Stories Of Cocooning And Taking Flight, D. Ann Tunmer
Practicing Citizens: Adult Stories Of Cocooning And Taking Flight, D. Ann Tunmer
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative study concerns how a specific vehicle for social intervention programs impacts upon the civic behavior of targeted individuals. The crux of the problem is whether individuals can learn citizenship, and, if provided the skills and opportunities, will citizens utilize their knowledge to participate politically.
Spiritual Development And Commitments To Emancipatory Education In Women Adult Educators For Social Change, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Spiritual Development And Commitments To Emancipatory Education In Women Adult Educators For Social Change, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
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This paper discusses the results of a qualitative research study of the spiritual development of a multicultural group of women adult educators for social change, and its relationship to their current commitment to emancipatory adult education practice.
Adult Learning And Self Work, Mark Tennant
Adult Learning And Self Work, Mark Tennant
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this paper is to theorize adult education as a vehicle for self change and to explore how such theorizing has consequences for practice as an adult educator.
The Role Of Positionality In Teaching For Critical Consciousness: Implications For Adult Education, Edward Taylor, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Mary Stone Hanley
The Role Of Positionality In Teaching For Critical Consciousness: Implications For Adult Education, Edward Taylor, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Mary Stone Hanley
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines how differences in positionality of the three co-authors (as a white man, a white woman, and an African-American woman) informs both the theorizing and the differences in practice of education for critical consciousness in adult higher education settings.
Civil Capital, Adult Education And Community Sustainability: A Theoretical Overview, Jennifer Sumner
Civil Capital, Adult Education And Community Sustainability: A Theoretical Overview, Jennifer Sumner
Adult Education Research Conference
As communities struggle to overcome the negative impacts of corporate globalization, they are searching for ways to maintain or achieve sustainability in an era that values economic efficiency above community life and interests. Adult educators can support communities in their search for sustainability by helping to resist corporate globalization and by building civil capital.
“Work? I Have Learned To Live With It.” A Biographical Perspective On Work, Learning And Living... ...More Than Just A Story, Veerle Stroobants, Danny Wildermeersch
“Work? I Have Learned To Live With It.” A Biographical Perspective On Work, Learning And Living... ...More Than Just A Story, Veerle Stroobants, Danny Wildermeersch
Adult Education Research Conference
A biographical perspective on living and learning is more than an outgrowth or continuation of current individualisation processes. Stories of women about work and life, show that the notion of biography holds possibilities to create other meaningful connections between individual and society than those nowadays judged problematic or at loss.
The Third Way And Feminist Imaginings, Joyce Stalker
The Third Way And Feminist Imaginings, Joyce Stalker
Adult Education Research Conference
The Third Way purports to be a new way which merges the best elements of social democracy and neo-liberalism. Although it is an extremely ambiguous concept, it clearly exhibits androcentric characteristics. Its ambiguity offers adult educators the opportunity to influence its direction and operationalisation in order to improve the dis-location of women.
Informal Learning In Community: The Role Of Subjectivity And Intersubjectivity, Barbara Sparks
Informal Learning In Community: The Role Of Subjectivity And Intersubjectivity, Barbara Sparks
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper, representing a subset of data from a larger study, provides a preliminary social analysis of a specific site of informal learning with welfare mothers in a job readiness program and the role of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in meaning making. As the women came together to talk about their experiences with each other, they were listened to, taken into account, and validated in their past experiences, current circumstances, and feelings; they also had an opportunity to learn from each other thus illuminating informal learning. The informal learning of women on welfare can assist us in understanding how subjugated knowledges …
"White Practices" In Adult Education Settings: An Exploration, Sue Shore
"White Practices" In Adult Education Settings: An Exploration, Sue Shore
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper draws together literature from the newly emerging areas of studies about Whiteness, and postcolonial theory to provide an alternative analysis of the Inquiry processes into adult community education undertaken in Australia over the last decade.
Citizenship Learning And Democratic Engagement: Political Capital Revisited, Daniel Schugurnesky
Citizenship Learning And Democratic Engagement: Political Capital Revisited, Daniel Schugurnesky
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper attempts to contribute to the debates on adult citizenship education, particularly regarding the connections between citizenship learning and the redistribution of political power.
Before The Memory Fades: Measuring Long Term Memory In Older Adults, Jeb Schenck
Before The Memory Fades: Measuring Long Term Memory In Older Adults, Jeb Schenck
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An instrument was designed to measure visual memory span, a common form of memory used by adult learners. The instrument tested 239 older adults, using color photographs of household objects, which were later recalled. A number of significant variables were found and the instrument is believed suitable for examining the efficacy of adult instructional methods.
Revisiting The Map Of The Territory, Kjell Rubenson
Revisiting The Map Of The Territory, Kjell Rubenson
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this study was to revisit the article The Map of the Territory, written twenty years ago. The analysis is based on a review of major journals, conference proceedings and some key books. The review reveals how the landscape is being shifted by paradigmatic changes in the social sciences and the broadening of the boundary of adult education practice. The separation of empirically and normatively informed arguments is seen as a major problem for the drawing of the map
Beyond Participation And Stereotypes: Towards The Study Of Engagement In Adult Literacy Education, B. Allan Quigley
Beyond Participation And Stereotypes: Towards The Study Of Engagement In Adult Literacy Education, B. Allan Quigley
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Mainstream adult education framed the critical issues of literacy non-participation within its normative participation models creating a serious setback for literacy. Research. Through a review of the literacy literature and an analysis of the IALS and NALL studies, this paper discusses how undereducated adults refuse to participate in formal education, yet how they engage in informal and incidental learning. It concludes with an argument for research into how and why the undereducated engage in learning rather than participate in education.
Introducing The Community Development Concept In Ukraine: Facilitating Trans-Cultural Learning, Timothy Pyrch
Introducing The Community Development Concept In Ukraine: Facilitating Trans-Cultural Learning, Timothy Pyrch
Adult Education Research Conference
This critical description of efforts to introduce community development processes in Ukraine to prepare the ground for civil society challenges our ability to "walk" our "talk." Development efforts are impeded by controlling behaviours by Canadians and Ukrainians which are more in keeping with centralised control and antithetical to the liberatory tradition in the adult education movement.
Making The Curriculum Culturally Relevant: Relations Between The Global And Local, Julia Preece
Making The Curriculum Culturally Relevant: Relations Between The Global And Local, Julia Preece
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper analyses findings from action research which explored the impact of devising higher education curricula which are culturally and socially relevant to marginalised adult learners. The theoretical framework draws on the relationship between globalisation and local identity.
The Teaching Perspectives Inventory (Tpi), Daniel D. Pratt, John B. Collins
The Teaching Perspectives Inventory (Tpi), Daniel D. Pratt, John B. Collins
Adult Education Research Conference
The teaching of adults is a complex, pluralistic, and multi-faceted enterprise, but there have been no published studies that beyond identification and description of perspectives toward measurement and quantitative forms of validation. This paper traces our progress toward developing and operationalizing five common perspectives on teaching adults with a new instrument called the Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI)
"When You Act Like An Adult, I’Ll Treat You Like One . . .": Investigating Representations Of Adulthood In Popular Culture, Shauna Pomerantz, Amanda Benjamin
"When You Act Like An Adult, I’Ll Treat You Like One . . .": Investigating Representations Of Adulthood In Popular Culture, Shauna Pomerantz, Amanda Benjamin
Adult Education Research Conference
Our paper critiques the traditional "What is an adult?" debate. Using television as text, we examine untraditional representations of adulthood in order to keep the term "adult" in constant play. We suggest the need to move away from fixed notions of maturity in lieu of a fluid understanding that is mediated by social and historical specificities.
The Role Of Adult Education And Skills Training In Promoting Planned Change And Localization: The Case Of Acord-Nebbi Community Development Programme In Uganda, Paschal Odoch
Adult Education Research Conference
The study explored the ways in which adult education and skills training programs can contribute to the achievement of equitable, self-reliant, and sustainable community development. Using a case study design, the research investigated the factors that support or hinder the ability of adult education programs to achieving equitable, self-reliant, and sustainable communities.
A Botswana Rural Women’S Transition To Urban Small Business Success: Collective Struggles, Collective Learning, Gabo Peggy Ntseane
A Botswana Rural Women’S Transition To Urban Small Business Success: Collective Struggles, Collective Learning, Gabo Peggy Ntseane
Adult Education Research Conference
Although (75%) of women who move from rural areas to urban areas engage in small businesses, most of these small businesses never grow due to problems related to patriarchal structures. Context, non-competitive networking, and experiential learning are necessary to negotiate patriarchy for Botswana women’s business success.
Lessons From Central America: Action Research In An Adult English As A Foreign Language Program, Robert E. Nolan
Lessons From Central America: Action Research In An Adult English As A Foreign Language Program, Robert E. Nolan
Adult Education Research Conference
Analysts of policy have hitherto not paid much attention to how policy language acts to build up representations of reality. This paper agues for the usefulness of a discursive approach to policy analysis, and illustrates it in the context of emerging policies for ‘lifelong learning’.
The Promise – And Peril – Of Web-Based Course Delivery In Adult And Continuing Education, Vivian W. Mott
The Promise – And Peril – Of Web-Based Course Delivery In Adult And Continuing Education, Vivian W. Mott
Adult Education Research Conference
Much has been argued about the advantages and pitfalls of computer technology in the delivery of adult education. This research examined the use of web-based instruction in terms of learner attitudes, students’ differential use of computer technology, and the impact on learning outcomes and technological competency.