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Educational Administration and Supervision

Adult Education Research Conference

2005

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Connections Between Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management, Elisabeth E. Bennett Aug 2005

Connections Between Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management, Elisabeth E. Bennett

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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 Aug 2005

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

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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.