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The Trouble With Shopping: Discourses, Practices And Pedagogies Of The Consumer-Citizen, Kaela Jubas
The Trouble With Shopping: Discourses, Practices And Pedagogies Of The Consumer-Citizen, Kaela Jubas
Adult Education Research Conference
In this paper, I begin with an outline of modern citizenship and a review of feminist and other critical analyses of this concept. I then discuss the role of consumption as a marker of citizenship. The paper closes with the prospect of understanding shopping as a potential process of learning about the links between consumption, citizenship and globalization.
Lifelong Learning And The Pursuit Of Happiness: Questioning The Agenda For Adult Education, Patricia A. Gouthro
Lifelong Learning And The Pursuit Of Happiness: Questioning The Agenda For Adult Education, Patricia A. Gouthro
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explores how lifelong learning is connected with the pursuit of happiness, arguing that competing beliefs around what constitutes "happiness" and the "good life" influence the agenda for adult education.
The Role Of Spirituality In The Practice Of Adult Education Leaders, Jeanette Justice Fleming, Bradley C. Courtenay
The Role Of Spirituality In The Practice Of Adult Education Leaders, Jeanette Justice Fleming, Bradley C. Courtenay
Adult Education Research Conference
Leaders defined spirituality as different from, but related to religion, part of their identity, and as a connection to a Higher Being, to others, and to nature. Spirituality provided a calling to profession, instilled an ethical framework and served as a resource in times of challenge. It influenced use of power, decision making, and communication with coworkers. Participants exhibited a variety of leadership styles reflecting individual perceptions of spirituality.
The Relationship Of The Transformative Learning Experience On Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes: The Hudson Lake Recovery Camp Curriculum, Melodie Fair
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper reports preliminary results of a qualitative study. It appears that clients who successfully completed the Hudson Lake Recovery Camp substance abuse treatment program reported that positive transformative learning experiences helped facilitate their recovery process.
Transformative Learning On The Desert’S Edge: The Tostan Fgm Program In Senegal, Mali And The Sudan, Peter Easton, Kristen Molyneaux
Transformative Learning On The Desert’S Edge: The Tostan Fgm Program In Senegal, Mali And The Sudan, Peter Easton, Kristen Molyneaux
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines strategies of the Tostan Village Empowerment Program in Senegal for promoting abandonment of female genital mutilation as an example of transformative learning; and it draws lessons for the refinement of that theory.
A Strengths Based Examination Of The Educational Lives Of Alaska Native Alumni Of The University Of Alaska Anchorage, Diane Erickson
A Strengths Based Examination Of The Educational Lives Of Alaska Native Alumni Of The University Of Alaska Anchorage, Diane Erickson
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper outlines a study currently underway to explore the pre-K through postsecondary educational lives of first-generation college, Alaska Native graduates of the University of Alaska Anchorage between the years of 1975 to 2005.
“Singing To The Choir:” The Struggle For Systemic Organizational Change In Community College Teaching, John M. Dirkx, Frank Conner
“Singing To The Choir:” The Struggle For Systemic Organizational Change In Community College Teaching, John M. Dirkx, Frank Conner
Adult Education Research Conference
This study reports the results of a case study of a systemic change process in a community college aimed at fostering improvement of teaching practices. The results suggest that systemic change is limited by an organizational culture that is multiplistic and fragmentary.
“It Permeates The Whole Fabric Of Your Life”: The Experience Of Scholars Who Have Studied Self-Directed Learning, Robert C. Donaghy
“It Permeates The Whole Fabric Of Your Life”: The Experience Of Scholars Who Have Studied Self-Directed Learning, Robert C. Donaghy
Adult Education Research Conference
A recent dissertation presented a new and different view of self-directed learning. This research presents the stories of eight scholars who have studied this topic over the years. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
E-Acquisition? The Intersection Of The Research From The Fields Of Adult Language Acquisition And Online Second Language Education, Joellen E. Coryell
E-Acquisition? The Intersection Of The Research From The Fields Of Adult Language Acquisition And Online Second Language Education, Joellen E. Coryell
Adult Education Research Conference
A review of the intersection between literature in adult English language learner education and online language acquisition can provide the necessary underpinnings to inform program directors, instructors, and researchers alike of trends and future online language program components.
How Do Older Adult Volunteer Instructors Describe Their Peer Teaching Experiences At A Lifelong Learning Institute (Lli), Ilseon Choi
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explored peer teaching experiences of older adult volunteer instructors at a Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI). Data was collected through in-depth interviews with the instructors, observations of classes, and documents of the LLI. Analysis revealed various aspects of peer teaching of adults: participants enjoy teaching, they describe their role as facilitator of learning, interaction in class results in reciprocity, and participants voluntarily continue to develop courses and teaching materials.
Intuiting, Socializing And Playing Around: Women’S Stories Of Informal Learning In The Information Technology Field, Shauna Butterwick, Kaela Jubas, Hong Zhu, Jen Liptrot
Intuiting, Socializing And Playing Around: Women’S Stories Of Informal Learning In The Information Technology Field, Shauna Butterwick, Kaela Jubas, Hong Zhu, Jen Liptrot
Adult Education Research Conference
This report is based on a study of the informal and alternative approaches to learning of women who are working in the rapidly expanding and changing IT field. Using their intuition, borrowing and sharing expertise, and through trial and error, study participants describe essential forms of learning often unacknowledged by both workers and employers
‘Here I Stand’: Paul Robeson On Adult Education As Cultural Work, Pan-Africanism And Socialist Persuasion, Stephen Brokfield
‘Here I Stand’: Paul Robeson On Adult Education As Cultural Work, Pan-Africanism And Socialist Persuasion, Stephen Brokfield
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explores adult educational dimensions of the work of Paul Roberson the acclaimed athlete, singer, actor, linguist and political activist.
Hiding In Plain Sight: Higher Education Pink And Blue Collar Staff Experiences As Returning Adult Learners, Workers, And Family Members, Susan J. Bracken, Jeanie K. Allen
Hiding In Plain Sight: Higher Education Pink And Blue Collar Staff Experiences As Returning Adult Learners, Workers, And Family Members, Susan J. Bracken, Jeanie K. Allen
Adult Education Research Conference
This study focuses upon a sometimes invisible subset of adult learners: higher education staff members. The participant interviews are part of a pilot study intended to create increased understanding of how these unique adult learners experience their environments. This paper focuses upon one central work/school theme, ‘knowing your place’.
There's No Place Like Home: Black Women's Activism And Knowledge Construction In The Environmental Justice Movement, Tuere A. Bowles
There's No Place Like Home: Black Women's Activism And Knowledge Construction In The Environmental Justice Movement, Tuere A. Bowles
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative study explored Black women's activism and their process of learning and constructing knowledge in the environmental justice movement. By conducting in-depth interviews with sixteen activists from three southeastern states, findings revealed that a passion for home/place energized Black women's activism and served as the epicenter for knowledge construction.
Practice Makes Perfect: Shaping Influences On Informal Reading Among Adult Developing Readers, Alisa Belzer
Practice Makes Perfect: Shaping Influences On Informal Reading Among Adult Developing Readers, Alisa Belzer
Adult Education Research Conference
This study of 3 adult literacy learners’ outside class text interactions, indicate that quantity and quality of reading practice may be influenced by the ways prior experiences have helped shape their beliefs and understandings about reading development, access to text, and the nature of family relationships related to learning and literacy.
Motivations, Consequences, And Barriers To Using The Internet In Adult Literacy And Basic Education Classroom, Jim Berger Ph.D.
Motivations, Consequences, And Barriers To Using The Internet In Adult Literacy And Basic Education Classroom, Jim Berger Ph.D.
Adult Education Research Conference
This study sought to create profiles of adult literacy and basic education (ALBE) instructors and use of the Internet in their classrooms. Two profiles were found and significant group differences were seen based on factors related to use of computers in the classroom, e-mail, and number of students served.
I Need My Mommy, Irene C. Baird
I Need My Mommy, Irene C. Baird
Adult Education Research Conference
Drugs, mandated sentencing, overflowing prisons have negatively affected the lives of 2.3 million children of inmates. This study explored the efficacy of esteem building and parenting perspectives for incarcerated mothers preparing for release.
“I Am One Dedicated Person Working For Freedom”: Septima P. Clark’S Contributions To Social Justice Adult Education At Highlander Folk School, Lisa M. Baumgartner
“I Am One Dedicated Person Working For Freedom”: Septima P. Clark’S Contributions To Social Justice Adult Education At Highlander Folk School, Lisa M. Baumgartner
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper unearths Septima P. Clark’s contributions to adult education efforts at Highlander Folk School. Autobiographical texts and archival holdings were analyzed through a critical, feminist lens to determine her contributions. In addition, the adult education strategies she utilized in her work were examined using a Freireian framework.
Ways Of Knowing, A Quantitative Analysis Of The Intersection Between The Women’S Ways Of Knowing Model And Perry’S Scheme Of Intellectual Development, Carol Eichholz Baron Phd
Ways Of Knowing, A Quantitative Analysis Of The Intersection Between The Women’S Ways Of Knowing Model And Perry’S Scheme Of Intellectual Development, Carol Eichholz Baron Phd
Adult Education Research Conference
This quantitative study looks at the intersection between two epistemological theories: (1) the Women’s Ways of Knowing Model and (2) Perry’s Scheme of Intellectual Development. Findings confirm the existence of ways of knowing structures and show that the theories largely address different meaning making constructs. Some demographic differences were found.
How Teachers’ Roles Shape Adult Literacy Learners’ Engagement In Instruction, Hal Beder
How Teachers’ Roles Shape Adult Literacy Learners’ Engagement In Instruction, Hal Beder
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper addresses the question: What are the contextual factors that shape learners’ engagement in adult literacy education? Six adult literacy classes were studied at an urban adult learning center. Data sources included video, traditional ethnographic observation, stimulated recall interviews and open interviews. Findings focus on the ways that teachers’ roles shape engagement.
Location, Relocation, Dislocation Learning Cultures Or Cultures Of Learning?, Paul Armstrong
Location, Relocation, Dislocation Learning Cultures Or Cultures Of Learning?, Paul Armstrong
Adult Education Research Conference
Following a recent organizational relocation, the impact on the teaching and learning became evident. In analyzing the impact of change, the most useful way of understanding the change was to utilize the postmodern concepts of location and (dis)location, and to consider using anthropological research techniques to identify cultures of learning.
Contemplative Reflective Practice, Conocimiento, And Continuing Medical Education, Barbara Shaw Anderson
Contemplative Reflective Practice, Conocimiento, And Continuing Medical Education, Barbara Shaw Anderson
Adult Education Research Conference
Contemplative reflective practices, exemplified by Remen and Kabat-Zinn, nurture “subversive knowledges” that can help physicians and their educators address ethical issues in the health care system. Continuing medical education should encourage physicians to become what Varela terms “ethical experts.”
Developing A Taxonomy To Support Program Planning For Adult Learning Events, Colleen Aalsburg Wiessner
Developing A Taxonomy To Support Program Planning For Adult Learning Events, Colleen Aalsburg Wiessner
Adult Education Research Conference
Organizations invest millions of dollars annually in conferences and other learning events aimed at adult learning. Professional and scholarly conferences are time honoured traditions in our field. Yet, often we fail to consider whose purposes and learning needs are met in conferences and whose learning needs remain unaddressed or unmet. Additionally, we bristle at the structure of events we attend as adult education professionals.
Workplace Diversity Training: Evoking Change Or Reinforcing The Status Quo?, Patricia M. Thompson, Thomas V. Bettinger
Workplace Diversity Training: Evoking Change Or Reinforcing The Status Quo?, Patricia M. Thompson, Thomas V. Bettinger
Adult Education Research Conference
In order to effectively support diversity initiatives in our institutions or to develop workplace diversity programs, we need to first define and deconstruct the issues which impede diversity initiatives. The purpose of this roundtable is to discuss how we define diversity; the role social identity plays in supporting and hindering workplace diversity initiatives; the impact of organizational culture or monoculturism on diversity initiative; and ways to address the issues of dominance which undergird organizations.
Adult Students Of Color In Predominately White Classrooms, Robin Walker Thompson
Adult Students Of Color In Predominately White Classrooms, Robin Walker Thompson
Adult Education Research Conference
This study explored the experiences of adult students of color in predominately white classrooms. My aims were to (a) better understand their educational experiences, (b) share their stories in their respective voices, and (c) conduct a secondary level of data analysis that examined issues of race, class, power, and privilege.
Using A Hybrid Instructional Model In Teaching And Learning, Karen Skibba, Udeme Ndon
Using A Hybrid Instructional Model In Teaching And Learning, Karen Skibba, Udeme Ndon
Adult Education Research Conference
Hybrid courses allow for in-person learning communities combined with the convenience and reflective nature of online learning. This roundtable will provide an opportunity to share educators’ experiences and techniques in implementing the hybrid model to facilitate student learning.
The Role Of Arts, Imagination & Creativity In Transformative Learning: What Is Adult Education’S Responsibility In Facilitating This Learning?, Soni Simpson
Adult Education Research Conference
In this session, we will explore how creativity and imagination can play a role in transformative learning as well as the role of adult education in this process. Themes regarding non-artists or “regular adults” reaching new meaning platforms with the aid of creative expression are emerging in current research
Introducing Legal Courses Into Adult Education Graduate Curricula, Lee Nabb
Introducing Legal Courses Into Adult Education Graduate Curricula, Lee Nabb
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper discusses research concerning the argument for the introduction of legal training into adult education graduate curricula.
Membership Or Motivation: Exploring Reform Jewish Women’S Participation In Religious Education, Teresa L. Mareschal, E. Paulette Isaac
Membership Or Motivation: Exploring Reform Jewish Women’S Participation In Religious Education, Teresa L. Mareschal, E. Paulette Isaac
Adult Education Research Conference
Members of Reform Judaism believe that as Jews they must study Jewish tradition. Reform Jewish Temples, national organizations and community centers have a long track record of offering adult learning opportunities. This study explored what motivates or deters women from participating in Reform Jewish adult education.
Giving African-American Men Their Rightful Place, Teresita Pedraza Moreno
Giving African-American Men Their Rightful Place, Teresita Pedraza Moreno
Adult Education Research Conference
The implementation of adult male education programs that adopt the pedagogical strategies developed by the Freedom Schools could serve to address the unemployment crisis of American inner-cities.