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Full-Text Articles in Education
Challenging The Hegemony Of Western Views Of Learning, Sharan B. Merriam, Logama Doraisamy, Brian Findsen, Mazalan Kamis, Youngwha Kee, Mazanah Mohamad, Gabo Ntseane, Swathi Nath Thaker
Challenging The Hegemony Of Western Views Of Learning, Sharan B. Merriam, Logama Doraisamy, Brian Findsen, Mazalan Kamis, Youngwha Kee, Mazanah Mohamad, Gabo Ntseane, Swathi Nath Thaker
Adult Education Research Conference
This symposium will challenge the hegemony of Western conceptions of learning through the presentation of conceptions of knowing and learning based in alternative epistemological systems. The following views of knowing and learning will be presented: Confucian, Hindu, Maori, Islamic, and African Indigenous Knowledge.
Connections Between Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management, Elisabeth E. Bennett
Connections Between Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management, Elisabeth E. Bennett
Adult Education Research Conference
In the present knowledge economy, Adult Education (AE) plays an important role in creating, distributing, and applying knowledge through research and practice. AE programs are considered to be political and ethical activities (Cervero & Wilson, 1995; Wlodkowski & Ginsberg, 1995) that often occur in organizational contexts, including academic, for-profit, and non-profit groups. Organizations tend to have a predominant outlook on knowledge that is part of organizational culture (OC) (Wikstrom & Normann, 1994). A new line of inquiry, Knowledge Management (KM), focuses on how knowledge is acquired, created, and distributed (Alvesson & Karreman, 2001; Lengnick-Hall & Lengnick-Hall, 2003) within organizations. Alavi …
The Ambiguities Of Home: The Shifting Meanings Of Learning Across Spaces, Places, And Identities, Mechthild Hart, Susan Brigham, Patricia Gouthro, Heather M. Nash, Mary V. Alfred
The Ambiguities Of Home: The Shifting Meanings Of Learning Across Spaces, Places, And Identities, Mechthild Hart, Susan Brigham, Patricia Gouthro, Heather M. Nash, Mary V. Alfred
Adult Education Research Conference
This symposium explores how ‘home’ is a volatile mix of yearning and loss, of being at home or searching for it, and how it deeply affects all of us in a growingly interdependent as well as fragmented globalized world.
Construction Of Standardized Achievement Test For, Dr. Uche J. Obidiegwu
Construction Of Standardized Achievement Test For, Dr. Uche J. Obidiegwu
Dr. Uche J. Obidiegwu
This study focused on the necessity of constructing and using standardized achievement instrument for assessing adult learners. Tests and other procedures for measuring learners’ progress serve as basis for instructional decisions taken by educators on learners. For this reasons, educators are supposed to be versed on the production of good quality tests in order to obtain true estimates of learners’ achievement. This study discussed the qualities which a good test should have namely; validity, reliability and usability. It explained the importance of ensuring that items which have desired psychometric characteristics (difficulty, discrimination and distractor indices) are included in an instrument. …
His Story/Her Story: A Dialogue About Including Men And Masculinities In The Women’S Studies Curriculum, Beth Berila, Jean Keller, Camilla Krone, Jason A. Laker, Ozzie Mayers
His Story/Her Story: A Dialogue About Including Men And Masculinities In The Women’S Studies Curriculum, Beth Berila, Jean Keller, Camilla Krone, Jason A. Laker, Ozzie Mayers
Jason Laker
Three faculty members and two program directors in Women's/Gender/Men's Studies contend that Men's Studies can provide an important complement to Women's Studies programs. The director of Women's Studies at Saint Cloud State University, Minnesota, discusses the incorporation of gender studies into Women's Studies programs; a program director describes the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University's (CSB/SJU) evolution from a position where many Women's Studies faculty were wary of Men's Studies to support of the incorporation of Men's Studies as an explicit requirement of two required courses for their Gender and Women's Studies minor; two longtime Gender and Women's Studies faculty …
Lifelong Learning For Older Persons In Hong Kong, Sze Sze, Stephanie Hui
Lifelong Learning For Older Persons In Hong Kong, Sze Sze, Stephanie Hui
Theses & Dissertations
Lifelong learning (LL) has been widely regarded as one of the activities that can enhance well-being of the society and benefit older persons in terms of psychological, physical, mental, and cognitive well-being. In foreign countries like the Unites States of America, the United Kingdom, Finland, France, Australia, and also China, LL among older persons had been developed successfully. Hong Kong, in contrast, has no systematic planning for the development of LL even though the aged population is increasing rapidly. This research aims at constructing a LL model for older persons in Hong Kong. The theoretical framework of study focused on …
His Story/Her Story: A Dialogue About Including Men And Masculinities In The Women’S Studies Curriculum, B. Berila, J. Keller, C. Krone, Jason A. Laker, O. Mayers
His Story/Her Story: A Dialogue About Including Men And Masculinities In The Women’S Studies Curriculum, B. Berila, J. Keller, C. Krone, Jason A. Laker, O. Mayers
Faculty Publications
The article discusses the issue of inclusion of men and masculinities in the Women's Studies curriculum. Women's Studies programs were started to compensate for the male domination in the academics. Women's Studies presented a platform where scholarship for women was produced and taken seriously, female students and faculty could find their say or voice, and theoretical investigations required for the advancement of the aims of the women's movement could take place. If the academy as a whole does not sufficiently integrate Women's Studies into the curriculum, integrating Men's Studies into Women's Studies might end up further marginalizing Women's Studies by …