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Culturally Relevant Practice Frameworks And Application In Adult Education, Patrice B. French Jun 2019

Culturally Relevant Practice Frameworks And Application In Adult Education, Patrice B. French

Adult Education Research Conference

This literature review examines the use of three frameworks on culturally relevant practices influence on adult education, by comparing framework components to andragogical principles and process elements.


Education And Socialization For Elderly: A Comparative Study Between Portugal And Italy, Rute Cristóvão Ricardo, Andrea Porcarelli Jan 2019

Education And Socialization For Elderly: A Comparative Study Between Portugal And Italy, Rute Cristóvão Ricardo, Andrea Porcarelli

Adult Education Research Conference

Universities of Third Age (UTA) have been assuming a central role in elderly education. This research investigates the dynamics of education and socialization in UTA, considering impacts on individuals.


Exploring Team Growth And Fixed Mindsets In Work Teams At A Large Korean Corporation, Soo Jeoung Han, Bora Jin, Jihye Oh Jan 2019

Exploring Team Growth And Fixed Mindsets In Work Teams At A Large Korean Corporation, Soo Jeoung Han, Bora Jin, Jihye Oh

Adult Education Research Conference

We conducted a qualitative study to understand how team mindsets can be manifested in work teams. We interviewed 21 participants from seven departments in one of the big corporations in Korea.


Effects Of Three Dimensions Of Shared Leadership On Team Members’ Perceptions On Trust And Team Performance, Mirim Kim, Soo Jeoung Han Jan 2019

Effects Of Three Dimensions Of Shared Leadership On Team Members’ Perceptions On Trust And Team Performance, Mirim Kim, Soo Jeoung Han

Adult Education Research Conference

We conducted a survey with teams to identify the underlying dimensions of shared leadership and examine the effects of shared leadership on the level of trust and team performance.


Women Professor’S Ways Of Working In Academia, Rachel Wlodarsky, Catherine Hansman Jan 2019

Women Professor’S Ways Of Working In Academia, Rachel Wlodarsky, Catherine Hansman

Adult Education Research Conference

We address women’s development theories that might explain women professors’ academic identity, unique pressures faced by women faculty members, and how these issues impact work-life balance.


Bridging The Community And Police Divide Through The Planning Table, Kyle Znamenak Jan 2019

Bridging The Community And Police Divide Through The Planning Table, Kyle Znamenak

Adult Education Research Conference

This roundtable highlights how an urban higher education institution used its capital to develop a police training program that met the needs of the police departments and communities they serve.


Examining Effective Teaching Practices In Higher Education, Toni M. Paoletta Med Jan 2019

Examining Effective Teaching Practices In Higher Education, Toni M. Paoletta Med

Adult Education Research Conference

Contingent faculty represent the largest instructional group in higher education today yet few receive any andragogic training prior to teaching. Does this impact their effectiveness in the classroom?


Peer Mentor Circles To Support International Graduate Students: A Potential Solution, Brittany Marie Davis 9217077 Jan 2019

Peer Mentor Circles To Support International Graduate Students: A Potential Solution, Brittany Marie Davis 9217077

Adult Education Research Conference

To address social and academic challenges faced by international graduate students, I explore the possibility of implementing a peer-to-peer group mentor concept commonly used in the workplace called mentoring circles


Young Adult, Adult Learner And Faculty Perceptions On The Integration Of Diversity And Social Justice Education In The Classroom, Reba Fuggs, Robert F. Reardon, Amanda R. Young Jan 2019

Young Adult, Adult Learner And Faculty Perceptions On The Integration Of Diversity And Social Justice Education In The Classroom, Reba Fuggs, Robert F. Reardon, Amanda R. Young

Adult Education Research Conference

As diversity within the classroom soars, evaluating the curriculum and assessing perceptions about the integration of diversity and social justice education is integral.


Photo-Essay And Adult Immigrants’ Identities And Agency, Kay Yang Jan 2019

Photo-Essay And Adult Immigrants’ Identities And Agency, Kay Yang

Adult Education Research Conference

Drawing on a photo-essay creation project conducted with a group of adult immigrants in a metropolitan area, I explore how the visual method can contribute to their identity construction and empowerment and question how we know.


Bridging Transformation In A Pds Preservice Teacher Education Program, Holly Klock Jan 2019

Bridging Transformation In A Pds Preservice Teacher Education Program, Holly Klock

Adult Education Research Conference

This empirical work explores Transformational Learning within preservice teacher education. Self-identified disorienting dilemmas are a catalyst for communicative discourse in which preservice teachers approach learning by problematizing biases and assumptions.


Global 1968: Implications For Adult Education In Social Movements, Maria A. Vetter Jan 2019

Global 1968: Implications For Adult Education In Social Movements, Maria A. Vetter

Adult Education Research Conference

May 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most revolutionary moments of the 20th Century. We will address the pedagogical aspects of the movements around the world.


Exploring The Grit Narrative Through Andragogy: Implications For Adult Education, Jennifer L. Pemberton, Ted Mccadden Jan 2019

Exploring The Grit Narrative Through Andragogy: Implications For Adult Education, Jennifer L. Pemberton, Ted Mccadden

Adult Education Research Conference

An exploration of the intersection of andragogy and the grit narrative serves to position grit in the adult education literature and considers the unsuitability of this ideology for adult learners.


Four-Dimensional Model For Doctoral Student Support, Simone C. Conceição, Lilian H. Hill Jan 2019

Four-Dimensional Model For Doctoral Student Support, Simone C. Conceição, Lilian H. Hill

Adult Education Research Conference

Doctoral education demands significant time, energy, financial, and emotional commitments. Depending on the characteristics of the doctoral student, barriers to completion and challenges with the doctoral process can require unique types of support. The purpose of this paper is to examine institutional and instructional support that lead to doctoral student progress and propose a model involving social, emotional, mental, and behavioral dimensions that derive strategies for doctoral student support.


Erotica As Public Pedagogy: Learning Identity Through Popular Cultural Sources, Carolyn Meeker, Craig M. Mcgill Jan 2019

Erotica As Public Pedagogy: Learning Identity Through Popular Cultural Sources, Carolyn Meeker, Craig M. Mcgill

Adult Education Research Conference

Women who are feminist and submissive struggle to learn about and navigate their identities. This study found popular cultural texts played a key role in identity construction for these women.


Technology Use And Integration In Adult Education And Literacy Classrooms, Glenda Lynn Rose, Chih-Wei Wang, Amanda Sainz, Suresh Joshi Jan 2019

Technology Use And Integration In Adult Education And Literacy Classrooms, Glenda Lynn Rose, Chih-Wei Wang, Amanda Sainz, Suresh Joshi

Adult Education Research Conference

Instructors and programs in adult education and literacy classrooms face challenges with technology integration due to minimal internet and mobile phone service availability, and limited financial support for professional development.


Contemporary Approaches To Qualitative Research: Andragogical Strategies For Teaching And Learning, Tiffany T. Young, Wayne A. Babchuk Jan 2019

Contemporary Approaches To Qualitative Research: Andragogical Strategies For Teaching And Learning, Tiffany T. Young, Wayne A. Babchuk

Adult Education Research Conference

This inquiry provides practical guidelines for teaching and learning qualitative research methodology in adult education. Step-by-step procedures are clearly articulated for novice researchers and those new to qualitative research.


Teaching, Learning, And Collaborating: Voices From Instructional Designers When Preparing Graduate Faculty For Online Instruction, Dr. Mattyna Stephens Jan 2019

Teaching, Learning, And Collaborating: Voices From Instructional Designers When Preparing Graduate Faculty For Online Instruction, Dr. Mattyna Stephens

Adult Education Research Conference

The research sought to explore the experiences of eight instructional designers when preparing graduate faculty for online instruction and design.


Curation In Education: Implications For Adult Educators In Teaching And Research, Catherine A. Cherrstrom, Carrie Boden Jan 2019

Curation In Education: Implications For Adult Educators In Teaching And Research, Catherine A. Cherrstrom, Carrie Boden

Adult Education Research Conference

This systematic and integrative literature review examined curation in education with implications for adult educators in teaching and research and adult students in learning.


Resources For Military Veterans In Higher Education: A Web-Based Content Analysis, Thomas R. Cruise, Mitsunori Misawa Jan 2019

Resources For Military Veterans In Higher Education: A Web-Based Content Analysis, Thomas R. Cruise, Mitsunori Misawa

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this proposed web-based content analysis presentation is to explore the available resources for military veterans pursuing higher educational opportunities.


“Can You Just Move The Curtain?”: Stories Of Women From The Educational Underclass At The College Door, Janet Kaplan-Bucciarelli Jan 2019

“Can You Just Move The Curtain?”: Stories Of Women From The Educational Underclass At The College Door, Janet Kaplan-Bucciarelli

Adult Education Research Conference

This study explores prospective students’ lives and beliefs about college, and proposes principles and practices that respond holistically to learners’ strengths and vulnerabilities rather than emphasizing academic deficiencies.


Retrieval Practice As Process In Self-Directed Learning: New Philosophical Directions For Self-Directed Learning, Daniel A. Parker, Kevin M. Roessger Jan 2019

Retrieval Practice As Process In Self-Directed Learning: New Philosophical Directions For Self-Directed Learning, Daniel A. Parker, Kevin M. Roessger

Adult Education Research Conference

We explain retrieval practice and its potential benefits for adult self-directed learners. Moreover, we argue functional contextualism as an alternative research philosophy to self-directed learning’s humanist assumptions.


What’S In A Learning Theory? A Comparison Of Contemporary Learning Theories, Their Shared Elements, And Their Vision Of Society’S Role In Learning, Alexis Cherewka Jan 2019

What’S In A Learning Theory? A Comparison Of Contemporary Learning Theories, Their Shared Elements, And Their Vision Of Society’S Role In Learning, Alexis Cherewka

Adult Education Research Conference

Through discourse analysis of major theories of learning, this paper analyzes the role attributed to the social in contemporary learning theories in the field of adult education.


Serving The World Or Building A Profession: The Confounding Dilemmas Of Mid-Twentieth Century Academic Adult Education, Amy D. Rose, Catherine A. Hansman Jan 2019

Serving The World Or Building A Profession: The Confounding Dilemmas Of Mid-Twentieth Century Academic Adult Education, Amy D. Rose, Catherine A. Hansman

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper discusses the development and growth of an adult education professoriate and especially the growth and expansion of the CPAE in the 1950s and 1960s.


Ageism In The Workplace: A Review Of The Literature, Bora Jin, Lisa Baumgartner Jan 2019

Ageism In The Workplace: A Review Of The Literature, Bora Jin, Lisa Baumgartner

Adult Education Research Conference

This literature review will examine literature concerning ageism in the workplace and the influence on older adults’ workplace learning. Findings have implications for employers, employees, and adult educators.


Dare To Know By Thyself (Sapere Aude): The Legacy Of The Enlightenment And Post Enlightenment In Working-Class Adult Education, Maria A. Vetter Jan 2019

Dare To Know By Thyself (Sapere Aude): The Legacy Of The Enlightenment And Post Enlightenment In Working-Class Adult Education, Maria A. Vetter

Adult Education Research Conference

The Enlightenment and Post Enlightenment relationship to working-class adult education is examined in the case of the working class in Chile at the turn of the 20th century.


Reflecting Adult Education For Migrants: From What We Have Discussed To What We Have To Discuss, Kyoungjin Jang Jan 2019

Reflecting Adult Education For Migrants: From What We Have Discussed To What We Have To Discuss, Kyoungjin Jang

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this study is to conduct a critical reflection of the assumptions embedded in adult migrant education discourse based on a transnational perspective on migration. I reviewed what has been discussed in individual, sociocultural, and subject matter-related contexts of adult migrant education.


Profound Learning And Transformative Learning: Characteristics And Comparisons, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Michael Kroth, Carol Rogers Shaw Jan 2019

Profound Learning And Transformative Learning: Characteristics And Comparisons, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Michael Kroth, Carol Rogers Shaw

Adult Education Research Conference

This exploratory, theoretical study develops the concept of profound learning through a mutual interrogation of the literature and research of transformative learning.


Profound Leadership And Adult Education: An Integrative Review Of The Literature, Heidi Scott, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Leslie Hammes Jan 2019

Profound Leadership And Adult Education: An Integrative Review Of The Literature, Heidi Scott, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Leslie Hammes

Adult Education Research Conference

This integrative literature review presents profound leadership through the lens of key characteristics of servant leadership, authentic leadership, level five leadership, profound leadership, transformational leadership, and spiritual leadership.


Practicing A Culturally Responsive Feminist Pedagogy In Higher Education: An Examination Of A Feminist Classroom From The Perspective Of Transformative Learning, Mitsunori Misawa, Juanita Johnson-Bailey Jan 2019

Practicing A Culturally Responsive Feminist Pedagogy In Higher Education: An Examination Of A Feminist Classroom From The Perspective Of Transformative Learning, Mitsunori Misawa, Juanita Johnson-Bailey

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of our presentation is to explore how non-White professors, an Asian male pre-tenured professor and a Black female tenured full professor, negotiated their power in their feminist classroom.