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Insights Into Experiences In Student Research Forums: The Case Of The Tesol Doctoral Student Forum, Joellen E. Coryell
Insights Into Experiences In Student Research Forums: The Case Of The Tesol Doctoral Student Forum, Joellen E. Coryell
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Insights into experiences in student research forums: The case of the TESOL Doctoral Student Forum
“I'M A Black Man And I'M Doing This Job Very Well”: A Critical Examination Of The Impact Of Racism On The Career Development Of African American Professional Men In Corporate America, Tonya Harris Cornileus
“I'M A Black Man And I'M Doing This Job Very Well”: A Critical Examination Of The Impact Of Racism On The Career Development Of African American Professional Men In Corporate America, Tonya Harris Cornileus
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This is a critical qualitative study grounded in the tripartite frame of Black masculinity, critical race theory and career development theory. The study revealed that African American professional men experience repressive and facilitative structures due to gendered racism, which impacts their careers in ways that are different from their White male counterparts and African American professional women. The study adds to the small body of literature in adult education on career development and race and responds to the call for more culturally relevant career development.
Health Beyond The Overpass: Assessing Adult Learning In A Rural Community-Based Cardiovascular Education/Rehabilitation Program, Maureen Coady
Health Beyond The Overpass: Assessing Adult Learning In A Rural Community-Based Cardiovascular Education/Rehabilitation Program, Maureen Coady
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This paper reports the findings from a multi-site “Community Cardiovascular Hearts in Motion” (CCHIM) program. The case study examined informal learning experienced by 40 program participants in a 12-week cardiac/rehabilitation program offered in five rural communities. The effects of this learning and barriers to adult learning are highlighted, along with aspects of program design and facilitation that support learning in this context.
Adult Education Philosophies In Museums, Galleries And Libraries In Canada And England: Preliminary Findings Of A Cross-National Study, Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford, Fatma Dogus
Adult Education Philosophies In Museums, Galleries And Libraries In Canada And England: Preliminary Findings Of A Cross-National Study, Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford, Fatma Dogus
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Using a cross-national interpretive approach that employed interviews, focus groups and observations we explored the adult education philosophies and activities of 22 educators in small, medium and large public museums, galleries and libraries in Canada and England. Findings show a plethora of activities and partnerships and tensions between the terms education and learning. Libraries in both countries generally take a more liberal approach to adult education whereas museums and galleries predominantly in England combine the critical and the creative.
Disrupting The Hegemony Of Choice: Community Service Learning In Activist Placements, Donna M. Chovanec, Tania Kajner, Ayesha Mian, Misty Unverwood
Disrupting The Hegemony Of Choice: Community Service Learning In Activist Placements, Donna M. Chovanec, Tania Kajner, Ayesha Mian, Misty Unverwood
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In this paper, we share insights from a research project that investigated the effects of a service learning experience in a graduate adult education seminar with an explicitly critical pedagogical focus and activist placements. We analyze a subset of the findings related to the lack of “choice” through a critique of CSL as a market commodity and argue that disrupting the hegemony of choice had implications for reconstructing student identities.
Transforming Rural Agricultural Systems In Sub-Saharan Africa: What Role Do Social Networks Play?, Mary Thuo, Alexandra Bell, Boris Bravo-Ureta
Transforming Rural Agricultural Systems In Sub-Saharan Africa: What Role Do Social Networks Play?, Mary Thuo, Alexandra Bell, Boris Bravo-Ureta
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A quantitative approach is used to examine the relationship between social network ties and farmers’ decisions regarding adoption of improved groundnut varieties. The main findings are that farmers: (a) used external sources (i.e., weak ties) to learn about new improved groundnut varieties; (b) engaged in individual farm trials to gain experience (learning by doing); and (c) use both external sources and close associates (i.e., strong-ties) within their social network to acquire technical information about improved varieties.
Structural Model Of Simulation – Social Constructionist Perspective, Bo Chang
Structural Model Of Simulation – Social Constructionist Perspective, Bo Chang
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The purpose of this study is to establish a viable structural model of simulation in learning from the social constructionist perspective. The study is based on one of my empirical studies about knowledge construction in learning community and also the researches on simulation from the interdisciplinary fields. The findings indicate that simulation is a process of designing and practicing a model generated from the representational structure of the real world and modifying the model according to the specific contexts. Simulation is useful for gaining analogous knowledge, knowledge that has similar or relevant structures between the simulatee and simulator.
Development Of Peer Educators Within Paraprofessional Community-Based Adult Education Models: An Experiential Learning Perspective, Megan M. Seibel, Kim L. Niewolny
Development Of Peer Educators Within Paraprofessional Community-Based Adult Education Models: An Experiential Learning Perspective, Megan M. Seibel, Kim L. Niewolny
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In community-based peer education models, it is necessary to understand the relationship between learning, context and paraprofessional identity construction. Social relations are important in community education program implementation (Merriam, Caffarella, & Baumgartner, 2007); impacting power structure within communities and organizations (Cervero & Wilson, 1994, 2006). Drawing upon a current research project of community-based nutrition education, we explore the conceptual and practical role of experience in paraprofessional educator models and focus on the situated, contextual experiences of paraprofessionals in the communities they work and live as unique, challenging, and potentially positive for learning outcomes.
Thinking Outside The Box: Conferences As Collaborative Professional Development Opportunities, Catherine H. Monaghan, Tuere A. Bowles
Thinking Outside The Box: Conferences As Collaborative Professional Development Opportunities, Catherine H. Monaghan, Tuere A. Bowles
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This roundtable will focus on how we could reimage the concept of conferences from individual to collaborative events. Within the concept of collaborative events, we will also explore the use of various collaborative techniques to enhance conference attendees’ professional development.
Learning Democracy And ‘Difference’ In Civil Society, Sara Carpenter
Learning Democracy And ‘Difference’ In Civil Society, Sara Carpenter
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Civil society has captured the imagination of many adult educators and has become a central focus of both local and international development work. Volunteerism has come to be seen as a source of democratic learning and this emphasis calls adult educators to deeply interrogate its contours. This paper reports on an American volunteerism program organized to recruit young people into participation in civil society and examines the relationship between learning about citizenship or democracy and understanding social inequality, or ‘social problems’.
Audiences As Learners, Producers As Teachers: Dvd Commentaries As Pedagogy, Kerry Mcarthur, Kaela Jubas
Audiences As Learners, Producers As Teachers: Dvd Commentaries As Pedagogy, Kerry Mcarthur, Kaela Jubas
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This discussion focuses on the pedagogical function of commentaries on DVD releases of popular cultural products, using the television show Grey’s Anatomy as an example. We explore how these commentaries formalize learning for audience members and constrain new understandings of cultural portrayals.
Using Zines To Explore Young Rural Women's “Depression” As Community Education, Paula Cameron
Using Zines To Explore Young Rural Women's “Depression” As Community Education, Paula Cameron
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In this paper, I describe research that collects young rural women's stories of “depression” through self-published booklets called zines. Weaving together participant zine images and voices, Mixed Blessings proposes depression as a site of valuable learning on behalf of the communities in which women live. Focusing on depression as transformative, collective learning, the project incorporates the zine as a form for self-expression and popular education.
Understanding Social Justice Learning In Context: The Usefulness Of Complexity Thinking And Social Movement Learning Theories, Margaret Cain, Susan Seymour
Understanding Social Justice Learning In Context: The Usefulness Of Complexity Thinking And Social Movement Learning Theories, Margaret Cain, Susan Seymour
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This study explores the usefulness of complexity thinking/enactivism and social movement learning theories to explain the learning of a commitment to social justice of two white, female, privileged adult educators. Analysis of their life history data showed the value of understanding learning as simultaneous, nested learning processes that co-emerge with the learning context. Theories of learning within social movements were also useful to explain some of the participants’ learning through individual and collective levels of learning, politicized experience, and identity development.
Towards Reducing Cancer Burden: Patient Perspectives On The Role Of Cancer Care Nurses, Lee Yin Chao, Steven Eric Krauss, Mazanah Muhamad
Towards Reducing Cancer Burden: Patient Perspectives On The Role Of Cancer Care Nurses, Lee Yin Chao, Steven Eric Krauss, Mazanah Muhamad
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To address the shortage of oncologists in Malaysia, cancer care nurses are required to play a major role in caring cancer patients. Little is known, however, about how patients of cancer care nurses perceive the nurses’ professionalism in carrying out their roles. A study was conducted to explore patients’ perspectives on the role and expectations of cancer care nurses in Malaysia. Thirteen cancer patients were interviewed using an open-ended question guide in Peninsular Malaysia. Six role elements were described and major experiences were highlighted.
The What And How Of Teaching Diverse Adult Learners, Deborah Lechuga, Vishal Arghode
The What And How Of Teaching Diverse Adult Learners, Deborah Lechuga, Vishal Arghode
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In this paper, we present an in-progress study to better understand the process by which adult education instructors become more competent teaching diverse adult learners. We provide a brief review of the relevant literature. We then share the findings from the initial survey, which serve as the basis for our current study. The new questions that emerged from the data analysis and the research design of our current study are also described.
Model Building In Planning Programs: Blending Theory And Practice1, Rosemary S. Caffarella, Sandra R. Daffron
Model Building In Planning Programs: Blending Theory And Practice1, Rosemary S. Caffarella, Sandra R. Daffron
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the two major sources upon which one of program planning models used in our field, the Interactive Model of Program Planning, is grounded. These two sources include: the approaches or ways of thinking about program planning and the voices of practitioners.
Expanding The Conversation On Adult Learning Theories: Theorizing African American Women’S Learning And Development In Predominantly White Organizations, Marilyn Y. Byrd, Dominique T. Chlup
Expanding The Conversation On Adult Learning Theories: Theorizing African American Women’S Learning And Development In Predominantly White Organizations, Marilyn Y. Byrd, Dominique T. Chlup
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This study is a qualitative, interpretative examination of nine African American women’s (AAW’s) experiences while working in a leadership position at a predominantly White organization and the learning experiences that emerged from these encounters. Black feminist theory (BFT) is used as a sociocultural framework to explain how the participants learned from these experiences. Three main learning themes emerged: learning from influential sources, learning through divine guidance, and learning through affirmation of self. We posit that sociocultural theories derived from AAW’s ways of knowing is necessary to move the field of adult education toward more inclusive ways of theorizing learning.
Women At Mid-Life: First-Time Marathoners, Embodied Learning And Mainstream Rhetoric, Patricia Knutson
Women At Mid-Life: First-Time Marathoners, Embodied Learning And Mainstream Rhetoric, Patricia Knutson
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This paper outlines preliminary findings of a study exploring the experiences of mid-life women training for a first marathon. I focus on how and what these women learn about themselves, aging and the world around them. I address participants’ embodied learning and how it aligns with the mainstream definition of mid-life.
Cancer Care Volunteerism In A Non-Western Context, Kauthar Mohamad Kamaludin, Rahimah I., Nor Wahiza Abdul Wahad, Mazanah Muhamad
Cancer Care Volunteerism In A Non-Western Context, Kauthar Mohamad Kamaludin, Rahimah I., Nor Wahiza Abdul Wahad, Mazanah Muhamad
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The purpose of this study is to profile the cancer care volunteer in Malaysia in Malaysia and identify the competency level. The data were collected using a survey questionnaire. A total of 144 registered cancer-care volunteers from various cancer support groups in Klang Valley were interviewed. With regards to competency, most respondents have a medium level for most of the skills required for the volunteers. This study points to the needs for culturally appropriate “hands on” training programs for cancer care volunteers to function more effectively.
The Role Of Spirituality In The Lives Of Black Same Gender Loving Men At Midlife, Larry Bryant, Lorenzo Bowman
The Role Of Spirituality In The Lives Of Black Same Gender Loving Men At Midlife, Larry Bryant, Lorenzo Bowman
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This paper addresses the role of spirituality in the lives of Black Same Gender Loving (SGL) men. Findings from the analysis of three autoethnographies indicate Black SGL men experience same sex attraction at an early age, reevaluate the religious and spiritual teachings of their youth, attend church at an early age, consider spirituality an integral part of their daily lives, and utilize spirituality in reaching reach out to others.
Spousal Support And Sabotage: The Experiences Of Female College Learners, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Thomas Valentine, Maureen Grasso, Jamie Caudill
Spousal Support And Sabotage: The Experiences Of Female College Learners, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Thomas Valentine, Maureen Grasso, Jamie Caudill
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Human beings are social creatures and we rely on support from other people in times of struggle, challenge, and accomplishment. The aspect of family support is crucial in the negotiating higher education demands. This roundtable presents the preliminary findings of a study which examined the support and sabotage experiences of adult female students enrolled in a research extensive university in the Southeastern U.S. city. Two research questions that guide this study are: to what extent did the women experience social support during their studies and to what extent did they experience sabotage?
Diversity In Adult Education: Lessons Learned From A Master Of Education Program In Studies Of Lifelong Learning With A Focus On Africentric Leadership, Susan M. Brigham, Sylvia Parris
Diversity In Adult Education: Lessons Learned From A Master Of Education Program In Studies Of Lifelong Learning With A Focus On Africentric Leadership, Susan M. Brigham, Sylvia Parris
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n this paper we explore the lifelong learning experiences of students who graduated from a unique two year Master of Education (M.Ed) cohort program in studies of lifelong learning with a focus on Africentric Leadership. We conducted in-depth interviews with 13 graduates of the program to explore the role Africentricity and Critical Race Theory play in adult education in higher education institutions. Our findings draw attention to several key points about adult education in post secondary education institutions that have the potential to transform the culture of adult education.
The Application Of Social Learning Theory To Understanding Smoking Behavior Among Lgbtq Individuals, Lorenzo Bowman, Larry Bryant
The Application Of Social Learning Theory To Understanding Smoking Behavior Among Lgbtq Individuals, Lorenzo Bowman, Larry Bryant
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This study sought to understand the disproportionately higher smoking rates among LGTBQ individuals by employing social learning theory as a tool to analyze the findings from four focus groups conducted among this population in one metro area. The findings indicate that LGBTQ individuals often start smoking after “coming out” in direct response to social stresses and gay culture which seems to be supportive of smoking behavior.
Bridging Racial Divisions In Urban Graduate Education, Catherine A. Hansman, Catherine H. Monaghan
Bridging Racial Divisions In Urban Graduate Education, Catherine A. Hansman, Catherine H. Monaghan
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One of our core beliefs is that we, as adult educators, are responsible for providing environments that include spaces where dialogues of race and racism occur, which facilitate the learning and transformation of students, our practice and ourselves. However, as white faculty we find ourselves caught in a fabric woven of power and privilege that constantly challenges us to recognize how we live in the paradox of contributing to the ongoing nature of racism as we simultaneously try to transform it. The purpose of this roundtable discussion is to wrestle with this paradox and encourage dialogue and perspectives among adult …
From Classroom Assessment To Ials And Piaac: Disconnected Conceptions About Measuring Adult Literacy, Audrey Gardner
From Classroom Assessment To Ials And Piaac: Disconnected Conceptions About Measuring Adult Literacy, Audrey Gardner
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The International Adult Literacy Survey has resulted in a reframing of the meaning of adult literacy and contributed to disconnected conceptions about literacy assessment in Canada and elsewhere. In the emerging IALS framework governments prioritize statistical measures and largely overlook the array of mostly qualitative evidence of learner progress. Programs are challenged to balance assessment methods that are meaningful to learners with policy expectations on raising literacy rates. This paper offers a brief analysis of how adult literacy assessment has been caught up in the IALS discourse that undercuts learner-centered assessment.
Great Walls From Mao To Now: A Biographical Perspective On Adult Education Inside Chinese Communist Revolution, Roger Boshier, Xu Minghui
Great Walls From Mao To Now: A Biographical Perspective On Adult Education Inside Chinese Communist Revolution, Roger Boshier, Xu Minghui
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From 1921 onwards, adult education was a vital corollary of Chinese Communist revolution. In 1954 Yao Zhongda lived near Mao in the Zhongnanhai and became Chief of the Bureau of Workers’ and Peasants Education. He is now 86 years old. The purpose of this study was to capture his biography and reflect on what it means for 21st century China. Data was secured during a 10-day Beijing interview session. Yao is an outstanding figure in Chinese adult education and today’s scholar-officials could learn a lot from him.
Reciprocity And Influence: Exploring Dimensions Of Learning In People With Alzheimer’S Disease, Kathleen M. Downie
Reciprocity And Influence: Exploring Dimensions Of Learning In People With Alzheimer’S Disease, Kathleen M. Downie
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The field of adult education has steadily grown over the past 60 years to recognize the importance of lifelong learning as essential to health and mental wellbeing (UNESCO). Furthermore, the prosperity associated with both formal and informal educational activity extends well beyond the realm of the learner to those within familial, professional and cultural circles. Less apparent is the notion that persons with Alzheimer’s disease, particularly those who strive to adapt to progressive cognitive decline, remain learners who benefit from formal and informal educational opportunities. While contemplating procedural, cognitive and affective realms of learning, the author examines the impact of …
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
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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 …
Marginalization Through Mobilizing The Discourse Of Skill, Soma Chatterjee, Adriana Berlingieri, Shama Dossa, Kiran Mirchandani, Shruti Tambe
Marginalization Through Mobilizing The Discourse Of Skill, Soma Chatterjee, Adriana Berlingieri, Shama Dossa, Kiran Mirchandani, Shruti Tambe
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This roundtable discusses the deployment of the skill discourse at four different sites. Across sites, the discourse of skill is closely linked to the marginalization of workers.
Hiv/Aids Identity Incorporation And The Temporal Context, Lisa M. Baumgartner
Hiv/Aids Identity Incorporation And The Temporal Context, Lisa M. Baumgartner
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The purpose of this study was to examine how the temporal context affected the incorporation of the HIV/AIDS identity into the self. In-depth interviews were conducted with 36 individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Chronological age shaped the initial reaction to the diagnosis whereas historical time did not. Social time affected immersion in the HIV/AIDS community and the passage of time influenced the integration of the HIV/AIDS identity into the self. These findings have implications for health educators.