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Teaching Across Borders: A Collaborative Inter-Racial "Border" Pedagogy In Adult Multicultural Education Classes., Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Clarice Perry
Teaching Across Borders: A Collaborative Inter-Racial "Border" Pedagogy In Adult Multicultural Education Classes., Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Clarice Perry
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative action research study examined how power dynamics were manifested between and among instructors and students in two graduate level classes team-taught by a black and a white female co-instructors where diversity and equity issues in education was the primary course content. The study also attempts to identify adult education practices that lead to growth and social change among participants in such classes that are at times both uncomfortable and controversial.
Innovation As Knowledge And Learning., Taylor Rosemary
Innovation As Knowledge And Learning., Taylor Rosemary
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Innovative small and medium enterprises now play a vital role in the economy, but their survival often depends on being at the leading edge of their field. Without an abundance of time or money for education or training, they rely heavily on obtaining knowledge informally through a variety of channels.
Implicit Memory And Transformative Learning Theory: Unconscious Cognition., Edward W. Taylor
Implicit Memory And Transformative Learning Theory: Unconscious Cognition., Edward W. Taylor
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Recent research has found that the transformation of meaning structures (schemes and perspectives) can occur without critical reflection. This phenomenon seems to be explained by a concept called implicit memory -- the unconscious development of thoughts and actions. This paper involves a review of related literature on implicit memory from the fields of neurobiology and psychology and its implications for the theory and practice of transformative learning
A Narrative Assessment Of Synergic Inquiry: Its Effectiveness In Fostering Transformative Learning In Cross-Cultural Settings., Masaji Takano
A Narrative Assessment Of Synergic Inquiry: Its Effectiveness In Fostering Transformative Learning In Cross-Cultural Settings., Masaji Takano
Adult Education Research Conference
This empirical study examines the effectiveness of Synergic Inquiry as a practical methodology for fostering transformative learning experience in cross-cultural settings. The study qualitatively analyzes the life narratives of participants who engaged in action-oriented projects conducted abroad that applied the Synergic Inquiry framework.
Synergic Inquiry (Si): An Alternative Framework For Transformative Learning., Yongming Tang
Synergic Inquiry (Si): An Alternative Framework For Transformative Learning., Yongming Tang
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This paper discusses SI which intends to help address a number of challenges facing transformative learning teachers and researchers. The SI framework is briefly introduced with the focus on how it creates contexts, processes and catalysts for transformative learning as well as its relationships with some existing learning theories.
Adult Education On-Line., Bruce Spencer
Adult Education On-Line., Bruce Spencer
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Does the addition of the electronic classroom change distance education from individualized study to social education? Experience suggests that it does, but computer-network distance education needs to be critically evaluated by adult educators.
Doing Cross Cultural Research In Adult Education: Methodological And Epistemological Considerations., Barbara Sparks
Doing Cross Cultural Research In Adult Education: Methodological And Epistemological Considerations., Barbara Sparks
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While doing cross cultural research is not new, the growing acknowledgement of the perils of crossing cultures unconsciously is gaining support and calling for change. This paper examines some methodological and epistemological considerations of doing cross cultural qualitative research in adult education. Reliance on partial knowledge and middle class cultural and political bias point to the need within the field for critical reflection on how and why empirical realities are studied in the ways that they are and at the same time require rethinking and revision of traditional research methods while designing new methods of inquiry.
The Effectiveness Of Total Quality Management: A Response To The Critics., Douglas H. Smith, Ralph G. Lewis
The Effectiveness Of Total Quality Management: A Response To The Critics., Douglas H. Smith, Ralph G. Lewis
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A recent paper strongly berates total quality management, claiming it is a tool of management used to adversely manipulate workers in pursuit of corporate gain. This paper questions this supposition, arguing it is the abuse of TQM by management that is at fault. Effective TQM is based on four principles, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, speaking with facts, and respect for people. It is the lack of the genuine respect for people that is the demise of most TQM initiatives.
A Replication Study Of The Attitudes Of Selected Academics And Decision-Makers Towards Adult Students., Curtis Smeby, Burton Sisco
A Replication Study Of The Attitudes Of Selected Academics And Decision-Makers Towards Adult Students., Curtis Smeby, Burton Sisco
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The investigation examined the attitudes of selected academics and decision-makers towards adult students 15 years after the original study was conducted, in another rural state, and in another region of the United States. While the primary purpose was to replicate the original study, a secondary purpose was to compare and identify changes in attitude.
"A Room Of One's Own": A Phenomenological Investigation Of Class, Age, Gender And Politics Of Institutional Change Regarding Adult Students On Campus., Peggy A. Sissel, Margaret Birdsong, Barbara Silaski
"A Room Of One's Own": A Phenomenological Investigation Of Class, Age, Gender And Politics Of Institutional Change Regarding Adult Students On Campus., Peggy A. Sissel, Margaret Birdsong, Barbara Silaski
Adult Education Research Conference
This collaborative phenomenological investigation reveals the experience of adult student advocates in a university setting. The setting was interpreted as being mediated by interlocking systems of oppression. Issues included concepts of class, age, gender, and institutional politics related to resource allocation and meaning about the nature and needs of adult students.
Knowledge As "Quality Non-Conformance": A Critical Case Study Of Iso 9000 And Adult Education In The Workplace., Fred M. Schied, Vicki K. Carter, Judith A. Preston, Sharon L. Howell
Knowledge As "Quality Non-Conformance": A Critical Case Study Of Iso 9000 And Adult Education In The Workplace., Fred M. Schied, Vicki K. Carter, Judith A. Preston, Sharon L. Howell
Adult Education Research Conference
The study focused on the impact of the process seeking ISO 9000 registration and the way in which learning processes come to be defined as defective.
A Sociocultural Perspective Of Knowing: A Grounded Theory Of Epistemological Development Of Malaysian Women., Lucy Earle Reybold
A Sociocultural Perspective Of Knowing: A Grounded Theory Of Epistemological Development Of Malaysian Women., Lucy Earle Reybold
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The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the epistemological development of Malaysian women in Peninsular Malaysia. Based on constant comparison analysis of 14 in-depth interviews, a substantive theory of epistemological development was identified, including the process of that development and cultural factors that promote changes in epistemology.
Humanism And Individualism: Maslow And His Critics., Elaine Pearson, Ronald Podeschi
Humanism And Individualism: Maslow And His Critics., Elaine Pearson, Ronald Podeschi
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Using broad-based literature, this study explores Abraham Maslow's humanistic psychology within the contexts of ideological criticism, 20th century U.S. adult education philosophies, and the theoretical issue of philosophical categories.
Voluntary Organizations And Nonformal Adult Education In Hungary: Professionalization And The Discourse Of Deficiency., Carol A. Pandak
Voluntary Organizations And Nonformal Adult Education In Hungary: Professionalization And The Discourse Of Deficiency., Carol A. Pandak
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This paper explores issues of professionalization and the discourse of deficiency in Hungarian voluntary organizations and nonformal adult education. The argument is made that transformational adult education, e.g., Freire and Mezirow would be useful to dispel the myth of individual deficiencies.
Imagining And Critical Reflection In Autobiography: An Odd Couple In Adult Transformative Learning., Alex Nelson
Imagining And Critical Reflection In Autobiography: An Odd Couple In Adult Transformative Learning., Alex Nelson
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Adult education approaches to transformative learning generally emphasize the interpretive role of critical reflection and critical thinking. This explanatory understanding of transformative learning as autobiography claims that the learner composes their life, by using imagination and critical reflection to interpret their life story within the social context.
Academic Vs. Integrated Functional-Context Literacy Programs: Responding To The Needs Of Low Literate Clients Of Welfare., Larry G. Martin
Academic Vs. Integrated Functional-Context Literacy Programs: Responding To The Needs Of Low Literate Clients Of Welfare., Larry G. Martin
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The "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996" promises to usher in a new era of literacy programming as practitioners attempt to design short-term programs that address the academic and employment needs of low-literate welfare recipients. A comparative analysis of academic and integrated literacy/occupational skills programs is presented.
Factors That Affect The Epistemology Of Group Learning: A Research-Based Analysis., Victoria Marsick, Elizabeth Kasl
Factors That Affect The Epistemology Of Group Learning: A Research-Based Analysis., Victoria Marsick, Elizabeth Kasl
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This examination of factors that affect group learning is a first step toward developing a pedagogy of group learning, in contrast to individual learning.
The Interconnecting Web: Adult Learning Cohorts As Sites For Collaborative Learning, Feminist Pedagogy And Experiential Ways Of Knowing., Randee Lipson Lawrence
The Interconnecting Web: Adult Learning Cohorts As Sites For Collaborative Learning, Feminist Pedagogy And Experiential Ways Of Knowing., Randee Lipson Lawrence
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This paper describes research conducted to understand and given meaning to the experience of adults learning in cohort groups, in non-traditional graduate and undergraduate degree programs in higher education. The researcher sought to enter into the lived world of the learners to view the experience from their perspective.
How Adult Experience As A Supervising Decision-Maker Can Inhibit Learning: An Examination Of Undergraduate Senior Projects., Elliott Lauderdale
How Adult Experience As A Supervising Decision-Maker Can Inhibit Learning: An Examination Of Undergraduate Senior Projects., Elliott Lauderdale
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This paper reports on a preliminary investigation of a hypothesis generated from an ongoing examination of the senior research projects of a interdisciplinary adult degree program at an urban university. A review of adult education writing addressing the work of Chris Argyris reveals a tendency to overlook its application to this research problem. Does positive supervisory experience inhibit adult learning?
A Researcher And Activist In The Mexican Borderlands., Deborah W. Kilgore
A Researcher And Activist In The Mexican Borderlands., Deborah W. Kilgore
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Dual roles of activist and researcher in a collective social movement highlight conflicting research needs for objectivity and subjectivity that may be reconciled through self-conscious critique. This was demonstrated during a study of a collective workers' rights movement on the U.S.-Mexico border in 1996.
Radical Pedagogy In Action: A Case Study Of A Chicano/A Autobiography Class., Jodi Jan Kaufmann
Radical Pedagogy In Action: A Case Study Of A Chicano/A Autobiography Class., Jodi Jan Kaufmann
Adult Education Research Conference
This ethnographic case study explored, from the perspective of the participants, the instructional experience in an adult higher education ethnic literature course taught through the lens of radical pedagogy.
Participation And Retention Factors Relating To Black Reentry Graduate And Undergraduate Women In The College Of Education., Juantia Johnson-Bailey, Angela Humphrey Brown
Participation And Retention Factors Relating To Black Reentry Graduate And Undergraduate Women In The College Of Education., Juantia Johnson-Bailey, Angela Humphrey Brown
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This qualitative study, which focused on participation and retention factors, examined the educational experiences of nine reentry Black women who were students at a predominately White research university. The research centered on extracting common themes and on identifying factors that influenced or hindered their educational tenure.
Antecedents Of Intercultural Adjustment Of American Expatriates In The People's Republic Of China., Hallet Hullinger, Robert Nolan
Antecedents Of Intercultural Adjustment Of American Expatriates In The People's Republic Of China., Hallet Hullinger, Robert Nolan
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A greater understanding of the antecedents of intercultural adjustment of Americans working in China can assist organizations in selecting, training and supporting employees who work in this country. Interviews with forty Americans and seven Chinese living in Beijing yielded seven categories of adjustment factors labeled as personality, expectations, prior overseas experience, motivation, language skills, intra- and intercultural relationships, preparation and training. Four categories could be classified as endogenous, that is originating within the person, and three could be considered exogenous, that is originating within the environment.
Identification Of The Workplace Basic Skills Necessary For Effective Job Performance By Entry-Level Workers In Small Businesses In Oklahoma., Gerald W. Harris
Identification Of The Workplace Basic Skills Necessary For Effective Job Performance By Entry-Level Workers In Small Businesses In Oklahoma., Gerald W. Harris
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A modified Delphi technique was used to identify the workplace basic skills needed by employees in small businesses employing 50 or fewer workers. Employers rated a list of 36 skills from the SCANS Report, in importance, on a scale from 1-little importance to 10-extreme importance. The ratings along with written comments and verbal responses to preplanned questions in phone interviews were used to determine if the SCANS skills could be validated for small businesses in Oklahoma.
The Mirror Within The Mirror: Reflections On Multiculturalism, Theory And Practice., Catherine A. Hansman, Sherwood E. Smith
The Mirror Within The Mirror: Reflections On Multiculturalism, Theory And Practice., Catherine A. Hansman, Sherwood E. Smith
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which adult education graduate students' perceptions of race, class, gender and sexual orientation were transformed by the end of graduate adult education courses which included readings, reflection, discussions and other activities designed to foster self-awareness, critical reflection and cultural sensitivity.
An Exploratory Study Of The Social And Personal Dynamics That Deter Underserved Women From Participating In Adult Education Activities., Abby G. Hall, Joe F. Donaldson
An Exploratory Study Of The Social And Personal Dynamics That Deter Underserved Women From Participating In Adult Education Activities., Abby G. Hall, Joe F. Donaldson
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This study explored the social and personal dynamics that deter underserved women from participating in formal adult education. From a grounded theory perspective, an inductive analysis revealed four integrated categories of deterrents that describe factors leading to nonparticipation (a) preadulthood factors; (b) patterns of nonsupport in adulthood; (c) conventional deterrents; and, (d) lack of "voice" in adulthood.
Taking It To Practice: Building A Critical Postmodern Theory Of Adult Learning Community., Andre P. Grace
Taking It To Practice: Building A Critical Postmodern Theory Of Adult Learning Community., Andre P. Grace
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This paper considers research themes important to contemporary Canadian federal HRD (human resource development) policy, research, and experimentation. It takes up security, work, and learning concerns affecting today's citizen workers and learners and develops aspects of a critical postmodern theory of adult learning community.
Participant Perceptions Of Residential Learning., Jean Anderson Fleming
Participant Perceptions Of Residential Learning., Jean Anderson Fleming
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This paper reviews findings from a study of participant perceptions of residential adult learning. Residential learning programs were defined as programs in which participants live and learn together, full-time, in the same location, for the full duration of their program.
Critical Thinking, Developmental Learning And Adaptive Flexibility In Organizational Leaders., Robert Duchesne
Critical Thinking, Developmental Learning And Adaptive Flexibility In Organizational Leaders., Robert Duchesne
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Organizational leaders in today's global marketplace must continually make decisions, solve problems, and chart effective courses of action to ensure that their companies survive and flourish. The ability to think critically is essential for today's leaders, yet leaders are often unable to do so. This study examined how developmental learning and adaptive flexibility related to the level of critical thinking in a sample of organizational leaders. Results showed years of education to be the only significant predictor of critical thinking in the leaders studied. Adaptive flexibility scores indicate minimal levels of reflective observation suggesting automatization of decision-making. The factor analysis …
Researching Professional Practice: The Integrated Practice Perspectives Model And Continuing Education., Joe F. Donaldson, Gary W. Kuhne
Researching Professional Practice: The Integrated Practice Perspectives Model And Continuing Education., Joe F. Donaldson, Gary W. Kuhne
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The "Integrated Practice Perspectives" model reframes previous efforts to link education with professional practice by using theories of situated cognition and learning. Reframing allows other variables in professional performance to be identified, performance to be more thoroughly linked to social and cultural contexts, and a more integrative and deeper conceptualization of professional practice and context to be developed.