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Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2007

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for October 23, 2007 meeting.


Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2007

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding awards, Mass Media & Technology Hall, Listen Up Legislators and 24 hour study location.


Re-Viewing Adult Learning: A Collaborative Self-Directed Learning Model For Adult Educators, Ti'eshia Moore, Joe Houde, Chad Hoggan, Jennie Wagner Oct 2007

Re-Viewing Adult Learning: A Collaborative Self-Directed Learning Model For Adult Educators, Ti'eshia Moore, Joe Houde, Chad Hoggan, Jennie Wagner

Adult Education Research Conference

The CSDL model for adult education suggests the incorporation of autonomy and collaboration to traditional SDL. An exploratry model that addresses individual and group choice, control, resources and benefits is proposed.


Communities Of Practice In Graduate Education: The Learner's Perspective, Catherine H. Monoghan Oct 2007

Communities Of Practice In Graduate Education: The Learner's Perspective, Catherine H. Monoghan

Adult Education Research Conference

The focus of this paper is the use of Communities of Practice as a tool to help learners acquire lifelong learning skills. The purpose of this research was to assess the effectiveness of this learning strategy to better understand how educators can help students to become lifelong learners.


Transformational Learning In Botswana: How Culture Shapes The Process, Sharan B. Merriam, Gabo Ntseane Oct 2007

Transformational Learning In Botswana: How Culture Shapes The Process, Sharan B. Merriam, Gabo Ntseane

Adult Education Research Conference

Transformational learning as presented by Jack Mezirow has been critiqued for its Western, rational/cognitive orientation. This study was conducted in the African nation of Botswana and examined how that culture shaped the process. The TL experiences of 10 adults were constructed in terms of spirituality and the metaphysical world, community responsibilities and relationships, and gender roles.


View From The Stoop: Exploring The Impact Of Place On Learning In Social Movements, Marilyn Mckenley Parrish Oct 2007

View From The Stoop: Exploring The Impact Of Place On Learning In Social Movements, Marilyn Mckenley Parrish

Adult Education Research Conference

Studies from the field of geography offer insightful perspectives about the impact of place within social movements. Issues such as the complex construction of space, contested discourse, and boundary setting, particularly relating to gender, are affirmed within oral history interviews with women of the Catholic Worker Movement.


Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate Oct 2007

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding faculty regent election, committee assignments, budget, SGA walkout and student evaluation of faculty.


Teaching To Be Radical: The Women Activist Educators Of Highlander, Colleen Mcdermott Oct 2007

Teaching To Be Radical: The Women Activist Educators Of Highlander, Colleen Mcdermott

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which gender has impacted the work and teaching of the women educators at Highlander. Maher and Tetreault’s (2001) themes of a feminist classroom, mastery, authority, voice and positionality, provided the theoretical framework for data analysis.


Racial And Ethnic Diversity At An Urban University: Critical Insight From A Developmental Social Justice Perspective, Larry G. Martin, Regina O. Smith, Raji Swaminathan Oct 2007

Racial And Ethnic Diversity At An Urban University: Critical Insight From A Developmental Social Justice Perspective, Larry G. Martin, Regina O. Smith, Raji Swaminathan

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper applies an integrated developmental social justice framework to an existing qualitative data set in order to inform organizational learning and training programs. We argue that this perspective challenges the unexamined and unconscious assumptions, beliefs, and values that inform the organizational behaviors of individuals, groups, and organizations within adult and higher education.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2007

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding cookout, Walk-Out Western, plus/minus grading and legislation.


Perpetuating Racism In The Field Of Adult Education: A Process Of Liberation For White European Decent Professors, Carole L. Lund Oct 2007

Perpetuating Racism In The Field Of Adult Education: A Process Of Liberation For White European Decent Professors, Carole L. Lund

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this case study research was to identify attitudes and analyze the behaviors of white European descent members of the adult education professoriate to determine how and in what ways they perpetuate racism. This research may change the way white European descent adult educators interact with colleagues and students of color.


Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2007

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for October 16, 2007 meeting


Seconds, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2007

Seconds, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Seconds newsletter.


Exploring The Needs And Challenges Of Adults From War Affected Backgrounds, Karen Magro Oct 2007

Exploring The Needs And Challenges Of Adults From War Affected Backgrounds, Karen Magro

Adult Education Research Conference

This research explores the literacy challenges of adults from war-affected countries, and highlights the changing role of literacy educators working with adults escaping war zones. Strategies designed to reduce learning barriers as well as an analysis of the social, cultural, and emotional dimensions of literacy learning will be explored.


Toward An Ecology Of Learning From Experience: A Model For Further Research, Nancy Lloyn Pfahl Oct 2007

Toward An Ecology Of Learning From Experience: A Model For Further Research, Nancy Lloyn Pfahl

Adult Education Research Conference

This emergent learning model derived from a narrative inquiry into epistemological processes governing institutional transformation. Our collaborative learning journey unfolded as a collection of organizational learning tales told by a team of nine college leaders. This paper and model describe the form of collective learning that preceded each systemic change.


Unveiling The Invisible Learning From Unpaid Household Work: Survey On Work And Lifelong Learning, Willa Lichun Liu Oct 2007

Unveiling The Invisible Learning From Unpaid Household Work: Survey On Work And Lifelong Learning, Willa Lichun Liu

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper explores the different dimensions of unpaid household work, and the informal learning involved in unpaid household work, and other non-work related activities. As part of a research project on Work and Lifelong learning (WALL), this paper draws its Data from a National Survey on Work and Learning (2004) done by the WALL research network, and compares them between different ethnic groups and recent immigrants, especially Chinese immigrants.


Citizenship Learning And Democracy In The Lives Of Young People, Robert Lawy, Gert Biesta Oct 2007

Citizenship Learning And Democracy In The Lives Of Young People, Robert Lawy, Gert Biesta

Adult Education Research Conference

In this paper we draw upon a case study from our research to identify the relationship between the democratic, non-democratic and non-participative dimensions of the process of citizenship learning. We learn that the process can prove uncomfortable for those involved.


Transformative Learning: The Trojan Horse Of Globalization?, Elizabeth A. Lange Oct 2007

Transformative Learning: The Trojan Horse Of Globalization?, Elizabeth A. Lange

Adult Education Research Conference

C.A. Bowers suggests that transformative learning ala Paulo Freire may be the Trojan horse of neoliberal globalization by deepening the ecological crisis and colonizing indigenous cultures. This paper critiques Bowers’ argument and proposes a contextual pedagogy for sustainability education.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2007

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding cookout, end of semester study day, Walk-Out Western and legislation.


Experiences Of Post-Colonial Women In Grassroots Organizations In Mali: The Case Of “L’Association Des Femmes Fabricantes De Savon, Koulikoro Plateau I” (Affskp), Mali, Maimouna Konate Oct 2007

Experiences Of Post-Colonial Women In Grassroots Organizations In Mali: The Case Of “L’Association Des Femmes Fabricantes De Savon, Koulikoro Plateau I” (Affskp), Mali, Maimouna Konate

Adult Education Research Conference

This qualitative research conducted in Mali during June-August 2006 explored the perceptions of thirty-eight women of a grassroots organization named “Les Femmes Fabricantes de Savon de Koulikoro Plateau I.” This study examined the experiences of poor women in Mali and sought to include their voices as they told their stories.


Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2007

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for October 9, 2007 meeting.


Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2007

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss banquet, website, plus/minus grading protest, Walk-Out Western and seating chart for SGA.


Seconds, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2007

Seconds, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Seconds newsletter.


Immigration & Credentialing: A Case Study Of Jamaican Teachers In 1960s Alberta, Jennifer Kelly, Dan Cui Oct 2007

Immigration & Credentialing: A Case Study Of Jamaican Teachers In 1960s Alberta, Jennifer Kelly, Dan Cui

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper examines the experiences of Jamaican teachers who immigrated to Alberta during the early 1960s. Using teacher narratives as well as archival research the paper aims to develop an understanding of issues related to racialization, immigration and citizenship.


Critical Hrd—Need For Emergence Of Critters In Adult Education, Jeffrey M. Keefer, Robin Yap Oct 2007

Critical Hrd—Need For Emergence Of Critters In Adult Education, Jeffrey M. Keefer, Robin Yap

Adult Education Research Conference

Critters seek to expose, understand, and change the underlying causes of a phenomenon—the business of adult education. Adult education is foundational to the engagement of critical management studies (CMS). Critical HRD appears to be a bridge between CMS frameworks and Adult Education theories. Critters will ensure the complexities and breadth of influences get threaded for all stakeholders.


Creating Space And Pathways For Elder Knowledge Transfer In University Settings, Colleen Kawalilak Oct 2007

Creating Space And Pathways For Elder Knowledge Transfer In University Settings, Colleen Kawalilak

Adult Education Research Conference

This preliminary exploration of the literature informs a subsequent study that will focus on the richness of Elder faculty knowledge and how creating spaces for Elder knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer will significantly contribute to the overall quality of faculty life and learning for Other less senior faculty members.


Consuming Fiction: Stories About Consumerism, Shopping And Consumption, Kaela Jubas Oct 2007

Consuming Fiction: Stories About Consumerism, Shopping And Consumption, Kaela Jubas

Adult Education Research Conference

From a critical cultural studies perspective, this paper acknowledges the tension between culture and materiality, and asserts that opportunities for informal, critical adult learning are present in everyday life. It uses consumerism as an example of hegemonic ideology encountered in daily living, and presents two anti-hegemonic responses to it.


Policies Versus Practice: “Grey” Areas And “Organized Chaos” In Emergency Response, Shawn Jolemore, Nancy Taber Oct 2007

Policies Versus Practice: “Grey” Areas And “Organized Chaos” In Emergency Response, Shawn Jolemore, Nancy Taber

Adult Education Research Conference

Paramedics and firefighters work in unpredictable and often dangerous situations. Organizational policies can help in guiding their decision making processes, but learning in practice and relying on experience is most helpful in their daily work. This paper explores how paramedics and firefighters learn to understand their practice through legitimate peripheral participation.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Oct 2007

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the October 3, 2007 meeting.


Lean On Me: The Support Experiences Of Black Graduate Students, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Thomas Valentine, Ronald M. Cervero, Tuere Bowles Oct 2007

Lean On Me: The Support Experiences Of Black Graduate Students, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Thomas Valentine, Ronald M. Cervero, Tuere Bowles

Adult Education Research Conference

The social support experiences of Black graduate students who graduated from a major Southern Research University from 1962 to 2003 were examined in a comprehensive survey that explored three areas: relationships with faculty, students, and the institution. The study revealed that the Black graduate students believed that White graduate students experienced a different campus and a more positive environment.