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Low-Income African American Women’S Cultural Models Of Work: Implications For Adult Education, Elisabeth Hayes, Wendy Way Jul 2000

Low-Income African American Women’S Cultural Models Of Work: Implications For Adult Education, Elisabeth Hayes, Wendy Way

Adult Education Research Conference

This study investigated how African American women from low-income, single-parent female-headed households conceptualize work and transitions to work, and how these conceptualizations relate to the dominant discourse of work underlying policies and practices in adult education. The findings challenge some prevalent assumptions and approaches in work-related education for low-income women.

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Factors Influencing Active Learning In Small Enterprises, Geof Hawke Jul 2000

Factors Influencing Active Learning In Small Enterprises, Geof Hawke

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Small enterprises are not large users of structured training. However, they are often actively engaged in learning. Is there a framework that identifies the sorts of learning they engage in and can this be useful to guide government support? This paper proposes a possible model.

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Extension And Grassroots Educators’ Approaches To Participatory Education: Interrelationships Among Training, Worldview, And Institutional Support, Nancy Grudens-Schuck Jul 2000

Extension And Grassroots Educators’ Approaches To Participatory Education: Interrelationships Among Training, Worldview, And Institutional Support, Nancy Grudens-Schuck

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This paper focuses on development of adult educators' commitment to participatory education through the presentation of empirical results from a study of a Canadian sustainable agriculture program. The author argues for an account of professional development that integrates institutional and historical dimensions.

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Feminist Pedagogies And Graduate Adult And Higher Education For Women Students: Matters Of Connection And Possibility, Andre P. Grace Jun 2000

Feminist Pedagogies And Graduate Adult And Higher Education For Women Students: Matters Of Connection And Possibility, Andre P. Grace

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This essay examines the disconnection between the homeplace and the university in graduate education for women students. It explores the ways that positional models of feminist pedagogies can be used to develop more inclusive and transformative forms of graduate education.

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Feminist Pedagogies And Graduate Adult And Higher Education For Women Students: Matters Of Connection And Possibility, Patricia A. Gouthro, Andre P. Grace Jun 2000

Feminist Pedagogies And Graduate Adult And Higher Education For Women Students: Matters Of Connection And Possibility, Patricia A. Gouthro, Andre P. Grace

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This essay examines the disconnection between the homeplace and the university in graduate education for women students. It explores the ways that positional models of feminist pedagogies can be used to develop more inclusive and transformative forms of graduate education.

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Research That Hurts Or Research That Helps? A Critical Framework For Adult Education Inquiry And People With Intellectual Disabilities, Rachel Gorman Jun 2000

Research That Hurts Or Research That Helps? A Critical Framework For Adult Education Inquiry And People With Intellectual Disabilities, Rachel Gorman

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This study provides two important caveats to educators involved in work with adults with intellectual disabilities: we must pay close attention to the structures we operate within, and we must carefully interrogate our purpose and our methods.

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Adult Education In The End Of The Century: A Reflective Review From Portugal, A. Fragoso, E. Lucio-Villegas Jun 2000

Adult Education In The End Of The Century: A Reflective Review From Portugal, A. Fragoso, E. Lucio-Villegas

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In this paper we review adult education policies in Portugal from 1974 until 1999, and we also try to provide a realistic portrait of the current situation. Our main aim is to give suggestions to guide researchers in this field of work.

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Leadership For Adult And Continuing Education, Jean E. A. Fleming, Rosemary S. Caffarella Jun 2000

Leadership For Adult And Continuing Education, Jean E. A. Fleming, Rosemary S. Caffarella

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper reviews findings from a study of the perceptions of adult educators of leadership for the field of adult and continuing education. Findings are ultimately organized according to the contexts and dimensions of leadership.

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Women Crafting New Work: The Learning Of Women Entrepreneurs, Tara Fenwick, Susan Hutton Jun 2000

Women Crafting New Work: The Learning Of Women Entrepreneurs, Tara Fenwick, Susan Hutton

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This report presents findings of a cross-Canada qualitative study examining learning processes of new women business-owners, to explore the emergence and nature of women’s experiential or ‘informal’ learning in work they invent.

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Is The Learning Organization For Real? Examining The Impacts Of The Dimensions Of The Learning Organization On Organizational Performance, Andrea D. Ellinger, Baiyin Yang, Alexander E. Ellinger Jun 2000

Is The Learning Organization For Real? Examining The Impacts Of The Dimensions Of The Learning Organization On Organizational Performance, Andrea D. Ellinger, Baiyin Yang, Alexander E. Ellinger

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Despite the controversial nature of the learning organization concept, few empirical studies have examined the relationship between the learning organization concept and firm performance. An exploratory study was conducted using the DLOQ© along with objective measures of firm financial performance to assess this association. Findings suggest positive associations between the learning organization concept and firm performance.

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Interdictions & Benedictions–Aids Prevention Discourses In Vancouver Canada, John Egan Jun 2000

Interdictions & Benedictions–Aids Prevention Discourses In Vancouver Canada, John Egan

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AIDS education has brought discourses regarding (homo)sexuality into the mainstream. This study of prevention-related artifacts from Vancouver analyzes key discursive aspects of local AIDS prevention programs.

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One Year After Enrollment In Literacy Programs: A Study Of Changes In Learners' Lives, Richard Edwards, Robin Usher Jun 2000

One Year After Enrollment In Literacy Programs: A Study Of Changes In Learners' Lives, Richard Edwards, Robin Usher

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In this paper, we argue that moves to reconfigure the education of adults as a dimension of lifelong learning signify a postmodern condition of education. In particular, we suggest that lifelong learning contributes to performativity and a loss of mastery, while at the same time opening up different possibilities for adult learners. This poses complex challenges to adult educators.

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One Year After Enrollment In Literacy Programs: A Study Of Changes In Learners' Lives, Olga Ebert, Mary Beth Bingman Jun 2000

One Year After Enrollment In Literacy Programs: A Study Of Changes In Learners' Lives, Olga Ebert, Mary Beth Bingman

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The study examined changes in the lives of 450 Tennessee adults one year after they enrolled in literacy programs. Among the findings were: increase in rate of employment, in participants’ self-esteem, in their involvement in community organizations, and in some literacy practices.

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Road Map Or Mosaic: Relationships Among Learning, Context And Professional Practice, Barbara J. Daley Jun 2000

Road Map Or Mosaic: Relationships Among Learning, Context And Professional Practice, Barbara J. Daley

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This qualitative interpretivist study analyzed the interrelationships among professional practice, the knowledge gained in continuing professional education programs, and the context of employment. Social workers, lawyers, adult educators and nurses participated in this study.

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Is There Madness In The Method? Researching Flexibility In The Education Of Adults, Julia Clarke, Richard Edwards, Roger Harrison Jun 2000

Is There Madness In The Method? Researching Flexibility In The Education Of Adults, Julia Clarke, Richard Edwards, Roger Harrison

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This paper explores the process of formulating research questions for an ongoing empirical study of conceptions of flexibility and lifelong learning in the context of further education in the UK. The process is represented in three parallel versions: an algorithmic tale, a tale of improvisations and a reflexive tale.

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Women’S Development At The Margins: Incarcerated Women’S Search For Self, M. Carolyn Clark Jun 2000

Women’S Development At The Margins: Incarcerated Women’S Search For Self, M. Carolyn Clark

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This study examines how one group of marginalized women, the incarcerated, construct their sense of self. Using the notion of nonunitary subjectivity to analyze life history narratives, I demonstrate how multiple positionings within available discourses serve to disadvantage these women.

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Re/Searchers As Co-Learners: Life Narratives On Collaborative Re/Search In Aboriginal Communities, Heather Castleden, Denise Kurszewski Jun 2000

Re/Searchers As Co-Learners: Life Narratives On Collaborative Re/Search In Aboriginal Communities, Heather Castleden, Denise Kurszewski

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Our goal is to share our lived experience of the unanticipated learning that occurred during our inquiry into educational issues in Aboriginal communities. What stems from this inquiry is a recognition that re/searchers are co-learners rather than experts. Consequently, we are endeavouring to increase awareness of ethical considerations regarding re/search.

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Motivation In Adult Education: From Engagement To Performance, Prof. Philippe Carre Jun 2000

Motivation In Adult Education: From Engagement To Performance, Prof. Philippe Carre

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This paper will focus on recent developments on the theme of adult motivation for education and training. It is based on the results of a large empirical research project conducted in France between 1997-99 .

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Telling Stories And Creating Participatory Audience: Deep Listening In A Feminist Popular Theatre Project, Shauna Butterwick, Jan Selman Jun 2000

Telling Stories And Creating Participatory Audience: Deep Listening In A Feminist Popular Theatre Project, Shauna Butterwick, Jan Selman

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Combining the understandings of popular theatre as praxis, with feminist scholarship on the struggles and power within the various women’s movements, this paper reports on a community-based project which has created new opportunities for story telling and listening. Through this initiative, different understandings about creating coalitions for social justice have developed.

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Making Mathematics Come Alive: The Effect Of Implementing Recommended Teaching Strategies In The College Classroom., Angela Humphrey Brown, Anna P. Uhde Jun 2000

Making Mathematics Come Alive: The Effect Of Implementing Recommended Teaching Strategies In The College Classroom., Angela Humphrey Brown, Anna P. Uhde

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This study examines the experiences of adult students during the implementation of recommended adult education practices in a mathematics methods course. The purpose of the study was to discover what effect utilizing adult education teaching strategies had on graduate students who perceived themselves as uncomfortable or inadequate in mathematics.

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Contesting Criticality: Epistemological And Practical Contradictions In Critical Reflection, Stephen Brookfield Jun 2000

Contesting Criticality: Epistemological And Practical Contradictions In Critical Reflection, Stephen Brookfield

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Being critical is not an unequivocal concept. It is, rather, a contested idea. How the terms critical or criticality are used reflects the ideologies of the users.

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Voices From The Deep: What The Pacific Charmer Tragedy Means For Preventing Fishing Accidents, Roger Boshier Jun 2000

Voices From The Deep: What The Pacific Charmer Tragedy Means For Preventing Fishing Accidents, Roger Boshier

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The CFV Pacific Charmer capsized, sank and two men died. Using interviews with survivors, associates of the deceased and rescuers, the author theorizes the incident and charts what needs to be done to prevent fishboat "accidents."

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Action Research On Documenting Learner Outcomes: Can We Move Beyond The Workforce Investment Act?, Mary Beth Bingman Jun 2000

Action Research On Documenting Learner Outcomes: Can We Move Beyond The Workforce Investment Act?, Mary Beth Bingman

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An action research project with three adult basic education programs focused on ways to document the invisible outcomes in learners’ lives. It has led to increased understanding of how programs might identify and measure those outcomes not captured by traditional assessments.

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The Adult Literacy Classroom As A Social System, Hal Beder, Patsy Medina, Marian Eberly Jun 2000

The Adult Literacy Classroom As A Social System, Hal Beder, Patsy Medina, Marian Eberly

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This presentation reports the results of a study of adult literacy education classroom behavior in which twenty adult literacy classes were observed twice in seven states. It was found that in adult literacy classes the predominant mode of instruction closely parallels the initiation, response, evaluation (IRE) mode that Mehan (1979) identified in his study of an elementary education classroom.

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Ontology At Work: Constructing The Learner/Worker, David Beckett, Gayle Morris Jun 2000

Ontology At Work: Constructing The Learner/Worker, David Beckett, Gayle Morris

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Constructing adult learners’ and workers’ identities starts with their embodied actions, and to do this we present a philosophical perspective, two fieldwork sites and a model for learning.

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Learning To Unlearn White Supremacist Consciousness, Carole Barlas, Elizabeth Kasl, Roberta Kyle, Alec Macleod, Doug Paxton, Penny Rosenwasser, Linda Sartor Jun 2000

Learning To Unlearn White Supremacist Consciousness, Carole Barlas, Elizabeth Kasl, Roberta Kyle, Alec Macleod, Doug Paxton, Penny Rosenwasser, Linda Sartor

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Using cooperative inquiry as a self-directed learning strategy, people of European-American descent learn to unlearn white supremacist consciousness. Facilitators of changed thinking and behavior include relationships of trust in the all-white inquiry groups and relationships with people of color in participants' daily lives.

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Violence Against Women: Looking Behind The Mask Of Incarcerated Batterers, Irene C. Baird Jun 2000

Violence Against Women: Looking Behind The Mask Of Incarcerated Batterers, Irene C. Baird

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Addressing violence against women by sharing battered prison women's written accounts with incarcerated male abusers, in a Freirian/humanities adult education program, confirmed the feminist perspective of male entitlement, female subordination in a sociohistorical context.

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All Things Bold And Beautiful: Researching Adult Learning Through Soaps, Paul Armstrong Jun 2000

All Things Bold And Beautiful: Researching Adult Learning Through Soaps, Paul Armstrong

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This paper proposes that, globally, informal lifelong learning outside of education institutions is often neglected, and that cultures of learning must recognize and value a wide range of informal learning. In popular culture, soap operas have both intentionally and unintentionally been sites for learning, and their significance need to be more thoroughly researched. But this challenges conventional methodologies. Innovative approaches are needed, including the use of chat forums on the worldwide web, through the internet.

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Self-Directed Learning As A Political Act: Learning Projects Of Women On Welfare, Cynthia Lee Andruske Jun 2000

Self-Directed Learning As A Political Act: Learning Projects Of Women On Welfare, Cynthia Lee Andruske

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This paper explores self-directed learning of women on welfare in their transitions to paid work and education as political act, and expands the definition of self-directed learning to the political realm.

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The Politics Of Knowledge And Theory Construction In Adult Education: A Critical Analysis From An Africentric Feminist Perspective, Mary V. Alfred Jun 2000

The Politics Of Knowledge And Theory Construction In Adult Education: A Critical Analysis From An Africentric Feminist Perspective, Mary V. Alfred

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The Eurocentric worldview has dominated research and practice in adult higher education at the exclusion of other worldviews. Using the contours of the Africentric tradition, this paper examines the philosophical assumptions of andragogy and self-directed learning for their applicability to understanding and facilitating learning and knowledge construction among members of African descent.

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