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State Violence, Learning And The Art Of Memory, Bethany J. Osborne, Shahrzad Mojab
State Violence, Learning And The Art Of Memory, Bethany J. Osborne, Shahrzad Mojab
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines the role that memory plays in the learning process of people who have experienced state violence. Our approach to this study has been a critical feminist-anti-racist perspective. Working with a group of women and men who are former political prisoners from Iran living in diaspora, we tried to interrogate questions about the role that memory plays in resistance and community building.
Brain-Based Cognitive Processes That Underlie Feedback Between Adult Students And Instructors, Alexandra Bell, M. Carolina Orgnero
Brain-Based Cognitive Processes That Underlie Feedback Between Adult Students And Instructors, Alexandra Bell, M. Carolina Orgnero
Adult Education Research Conference
Feedback is ranked among the top 5 to 10 highest influences on academic achievement. Recent advances in neurosciences enable understanding feedback in post-secondary settings as a reciprocal process that is mediated by brain-based cognitive processes common to both students and instructors. We describe three of these processes. The first process explains how feedback often involves tacit emotional responses. The second process highlights how prior experiences with feedback influence current experience. The last process relates to the development of personal mental models of feedback. We offer a set of implications for best practices based on these cognitive processes shared by students …