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Pedagogy, Positionality And Adult Education: Missing Links?, Miriam Zukas, Janice Malcolm
Pedagogy, Positionality And Adult Education: Missing Links?, Miriam Zukas, Janice Malcolm
Adult Education Research Conference
Adult educators in the UK are now covered by one of two sets of professional standards. Using our previously developed framework for evaluating pedagogic models, we examine the extent to which perspectives on, and assumptions about positionality are evident and the ways in which diversity is recognised by those standards.
Engagement: A Necessary Ingredient For Participation In Adult Basic Education, Mary Ziegler, Chas Durant
Engagement: A Necessary Ingredient For Participation In Adult Basic Education, Mary Ziegler, Chas Durant
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Education plays varying roles in efforts to reform the nation's welfare system. Some states provide adult basic education as a precursor to employment and career advancement. This study examined psychological and programmatic factors impacting this group of participants in adult basic education. Engagement was found to be a key variable.
Reflection And Transformation In The Intercultural Context, Linda Ziegahn
Reflection And Transformation In The Intercultural Context, Linda Ziegahn
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The context of this qualitative study of the ways in which students approach new learning around culture and social justice is an online course devoted to the study of inclusive community building. Results suggest both nonreflective and reflective orientations as students attempted to integrate new theories into their present and past intercultural experiences.
Expanding The Limits Of Evidence-Based Medicine: A Discourse Analysis Of Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinical Practice Guidelines, Meg Wise
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This paper identifies the promises and pitfalls of relying on guidelines derived from evidence-based medicine for post-heart attack education, and identifies how adult educators can expand current cardiac rehabilitation practice beyond its emphasis rational individual behavior change. Assumptions behind the "evidence" are discussed.
Adult Education And The Struggle For Knowledge And Power: Practical Action In A Critical Tradition, Arthur L. Wilson, Ronald M. Cervero
Adult Education And The Struggle For Knowledge And Power: Practical Action In A Critical Tradition, Arthur L. Wilson, Ronald M. Cervero
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Along with others we argue that practical space can be found in nearly all forms of adult education for the redistribution of knowledge and power. The purpose of the paper is to describe a way of understanding practical action in a world structured by the inequitable distribution of knowledge and power.
Facilitating Cross-Cultural Online Discussion Groups: Issues And Challenges, Sundra Wall Williams, Karen Watkins, Barbara Daley, Bradley Courtenay, Mike Davis, Darryl Dymock
Facilitating Cross-Cultural Online Discussion Groups: Issues And Challenges, Sundra Wall Williams, Karen Watkins, Barbara Daley, Bradley Courtenay, Mike Davis, Darryl Dymock
Adult Education Research Conference
This action research identifies the issues and challenges experienced by facilitators who moderated cross-cultural group discussion activities in an online environment. This study found that in a cross-cultural online environment, the challenges of the facilitator expand beyond the currently identified range of problems for online discussion.
Autobiographical Memory And Vocations Of Learning, Steven Weiland
Autobiographical Memory And Vocations Of Learning, Steven Weiland
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper addresses these questions: What can be derived from current theories of autobiographical memory for understanding how individuals understand and represent their aspirations, activities, and achievements in adult learning? And, How does recent autobiography represent the role of memory in learning across the life cycle? The opening section introduces current ideas about memory, in particular how we recall the personal past. The second part of the paper explores three "vocations" in learning that depend on autobiographical memory. By vocation I mean more than simply a form of work or profession, but a conviction of fitness or suitability for a …
Toward A Culturally Relevant And Spiritually Grounded Theory Of Teaching For Social Transformation And Transformational Learning, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Derise Tolliver, Silvia Villa
Toward A Culturally Relevant And Spiritually Grounded Theory Of Teaching For Social Transformation And Transformational Learning, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Derise Tolliver, Silvia Villa
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explores what spirituality offers to teaching for social transformation and cultural relevance. We ground our discussion in and beyond the adult education literature, and in our experience as three women of different race and ethnic identities who bring elements of spirituality to our own practice.
A Phenomenological Study Of Learning Experiences Of Leaders Within A Social Movement, Martha Strittmatter Tempesta
A Phenomenological Study Of Learning Experiences Of Leaders Within A Social Movement, Martha Strittmatter Tempesta
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A phenomenological research study of the learning experiences that contribute to the development of leaders in a social justice movement organized in urban faith-based communities. Relationships that endorsed and agitated were crucial to the process of learning. Within the community of learners, action was the prevailing source of new thinking.
Personal Pedagogical Systems: Core Beliefs, Foundational Knowledge, And Informal Theories Of Teaching, Edward W. Taylor, John Dirkx, Daniel D. Pratt
Personal Pedagogical Systems: Core Beliefs, Foundational Knowledge, And Informal Theories Of Teaching, Edward W. Taylor, John Dirkx, Daniel D. Pratt
Adult Education Research Conference
This case study describes a personal pedagogical system that acts a guide for adult educators in their practice. The system reflects core beliefs (assumptions about truth or propriety), foundational knowledge (essential knowledge for effective teaching of adults) and an informal theory of teaching (a theory of what works and what doesn't work), all of which interact dialectically. Implications for further research and practice are discussed.
Revitalizing The Study Of Self-Directed Adult Learning, Susan L. Stockdale, Dewey L. Fogerson, Ralph G. Brockett
Revitalizing The Study Of Self-Directed Adult Learning, Susan L. Stockdale, Dewey L. Fogerson, Ralph G. Brockett
Adult Education Research Conference
Self-directed learning has been an important research area in adult education for the past three decades, and holds much potential for future scholarship. Three areas for possible future inquiry are examined.
Cracking The Code: Problems And Possibilities Of Curriculum Analysis In Adult Education, Ralf St. Clair
Cracking The Code: Problems And Possibilities Of Curriculum Analysis In Adult Education, Ralf St. Clair
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In this paper I argue for the importance of explicit curriculum analysis as a critical approach to adult education research, and highlight several intriguing and challenging aspects of the endeavour. The discussion is illustrated with examples from my own work on the structures of knowledge in our vocation.
Collage Of Welfare-To-Work Perspectives: Views Inside And Outside The System, Barbara Sparks
Collage Of Welfare-To-Work Perspectives: Views Inside And Outside The System, Barbara Sparks
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The political interests and educational orientations advocates have about welfare-to-work influence the strategies they use to advance poor women's education.
Ethics In The Curriculum: A Study Of Ethical Frameworks And Moral Imperatives Embedded In Adult Education Graduate Programs, Thomas J. Sork
Ethics In The Curriculum: A Study Of Ethical Frameworks And Moral Imperatives Embedded In Adult Education Graduate Programs, Thomas J. Sork
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This study concerns the ways in which programs designed to prepare adult educators for practice represent moral imperatives and ethical frameworks in the curriculum. Preliminary findings support the central role of social and political context and personal biography of faculty in determining which imperatives and frameworks are reflected in the curriculum.
La Verneda-Sant Martí Adult Education Center: Dialogic Learning And Democratic Participation Both Within And Without, Marta Soler, Adriana Aubert
La Verneda-Sant Martí Adult Education Center: Dialogic Learning And Democratic Participation Both Within And Without, Marta Soler, Adriana Aubert
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This case study describes Multi-user domains (MUDS) as a virtual learning environment for fostering the imaginative and symbolic aspects of transformative learning by relying primarily on the work of Boyd and Freire. MUDs are an increasingly popular but largely unexplored location for adult learning.
"Mud Play": A Transformative Learning Context, Regina O. Smith, Patricia L. Farrell
"Mud Play": A Transformative Learning Context, Regina O. Smith, Patricia L. Farrell
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This case study describes Multi-user domains (MUDS) as a virtual learning environment for fostering the imaginative and symbolic aspects of transformative learning by relying primarily on the work of Boyd and Freire. MUDs are an increasingly popular but largely unexplored location for adult learning.
From Symbols, Stories And Social Artifacts To Social Architecture And Individual Agency: The Discourse Of Learning And The Decline Of "Organizational Culture" In The "New Work Order", Irwin H. Siegel
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The functionalist models of organizational culture, which have often relied on ethnographic and/or anecdotal studies of organizations in an attempt to discern the "culture" or an organization, do not appropriately account for individual learning and agency. This paper suggests an alternative model of "social architecture" comprised of "institutional" and "individual agency" components.
Manufacturing Workers: How Adult Literacy And Welfare-To-Work Programs Construct The World Of Work, Jennifer A. Sandlin
Manufacturing Workers: How Adult Literacy And Welfare-To-Work Programs Construct The World Of Work, Jennifer A. Sandlin
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This paper examines the complex ways educational programs for welfare recipients construct "success," especially in terms of the workplace. Teachers, students, and curricula in the programs represented success as largely an outcome of individual agency, while also recognizing but minimizing the importance of structural factors.
Study Abroad Programs: A Mirror For Adult Learning And Perspective Transformation, Kathryn A. Sanders, Marilon Morgan
Study Abroad Programs: A Mirror For Adult Learning And Perspective Transformation, Kathryn A. Sanders, Marilon Morgan
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This pilot study qualitatively sought to examine how study abroad programs in Third-World countries provide a means of fostering perspective transformation in adult learners. A diverse group of students and faculty from four cooperating universities participated in a six-week study abroad program in Africa. It examined the concepts of perspective transformation, transformative learning, and critical reflection.
New Perspectives In Esol Classrooms, Ujwala Samant, Patsy Medina
New Perspectives In Esol Classrooms, Ujwala Samant, Patsy Medina
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There have been no major studies that have compared or studied classroom dynamics within the range of ESOL programs, nationwide. This study attempts to develop an in-depth understanding of the ESOL experience from a variety of perspectives, using class observations, and a qualitative approach to analysis.
"My Business Was Not With Lost Souls And The Underprivileged": The Contribution Of Colin Badger (1906-1993) To Adult Education In Victoria, Australia, Peter Rushbrook
"My Business Was Not With Lost Souls And The Underprivileged": The Contribution Of Colin Badger (1906-1993) To Adult Education In Victoria, Australia, Peter Rushbrook
Adult Education Research Conference
The paper is a narrative of the contribution of Colin Badger to Victorian adult education and the founding of the Council of Adult Education. Theoretical issues are raised about individual agency and historical change, and the place of narrative history in adult education research.
African Americans And The Self-Help Revolution: A Missing Link In Adult Education, Michael L. Rowland
African Americans And The Self-Help Revolution: A Missing Link In Adult Education, Michael L. Rowland
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This roundtable discussion will recognize the significant role of self-help education and self-help literature in the lives of African American adults and to determine ways for adult educators to expand our knowledge base of self-help education for African Americans.
Assessment Of Adult Learning Disabilities : A Triangulated Study, Jovita M. Ross-Gordon, Cynthia Plotts, Julie Noble, Autumn Leal, Robert Wells
Assessment Of Adult Learning Disabilities : A Triangulated Study, Jovita M. Ross-Gordon, Cynthia Plotts, Julie Noble, Autumn Leal, Robert Wells
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this roundtable is to discuss North American literature showing how race, class, and gender has been treated historically and presents three approaches or perspectives that inform contemporary literature.
A Critical Review Of Race, Class, And Gender In Adult Development Models And Theory: Implications For Adult Education, Elice E. Rogers
A Critical Review Of Race, Class, And Gender In Adult Development Models And Theory: Implications For Adult Education, Elice E. Rogers
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this roundtable is to discuss North American literature showing how race, class, and gender has been treated historically and presents three approaches or perspectives that inform contemporary literature.
"My Disability Is Part Of Me:" Disclosure And Students With Visible Disabilities, Tonette S. Rocco
"My Disability Is Part Of Me:" Disclosure And Students With Visible Disabilities, Tonette S. Rocco
Adult Education Research Conference
Self-disclosure is "any information exchange that refers to the self, including personal states, dispositions, events in the past, and plans for the future" (Derlega & Grzelak, 1979, p. 152). An individual's disclosure creates comfort or discomfort in the person receiving the information in the disclosure (Chelune, 1979). The level of (dis)comfort created affects the response the receiver of the disclosure has. Disclosure can increase interpersonal intimacy and decrease interpersonal distance however it can produce the opposite effect, rejection (Wright, 1982). It is also assumed to be reciprocal in ordinary social relationships. The work done on disclosure and disability most often …
Evocative Narrative As Educational Research, Peter Grein Renner
Evocative Narrative As Educational Research, Peter Grein Renner
Adult Education Research Conference
After thirty years of teaching others how to teach, I enter a doctoral program to explore the question of how lived experience informs professional practice. Moving into the centre of my own doubts, I discover multiple selves, suffer death and rebirth, and ruminate on the nature of transformational learning.
Helping Adult Learners Overcome Alienation: What Can I Do If Most Of My Learners/Participants Are Not Pre-Literate, Brazilian Peasant Farmers?, Mary Anne Phelan Penner
Helping Adult Learners Overcome Alienation: What Can I Do If Most Of My Learners/Participants Are Not Pre-Literate, Brazilian Peasant Farmers?, Mary Anne Phelan Penner
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This theory-building research paper describes the ideal environmental framework in which to help adult learners overcome alienation. It includes the theoretical background and tools for assessing any participatory group environment for its proximity to this ideal.
Roots And Culture As A Basis For Transformation In Adult Education, Gerri Outlaw, Cathy Stanley
Roots And Culture As A Basis For Transformation In Adult Education, Gerri Outlaw, Cathy Stanley
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This paper discusses the completed indepth interviews of six youth who participated in hip-hop and reggae critical music reflection sessions. The group process experience and the voices of the youth are reported in this presentation. Hip-hop and Reggae cultural movements provide a medium for learning and presents possibilities for social transformation through the generation of new voice and knowledge.
A Re-Examination Of The Role Of Power And Politics In The Planning Of Adult Education, Robert Nolan, Randal Ice
A Re-Examination Of The Role Of Power And Politics In The Planning Of Adult Education, Robert Nolan, Randal Ice
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This historical study of the political interplay of the federal government and a states' rights governor illustrates Cervero and Wilson's (1994) thesis of the importance of context in program planning. Contrary to their thesis, the study presents an historical illustration of the primacy of theory over context.
The Political Economy Of Civil Society: Implications For Adult And Community Education, Mark Murphey
The Political Economy Of Civil Society: Implications For Adult And Community Education, Mark Murphey
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