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The Impact Of Colors On Learning, Bo Chang, Renmei Xu, Tiffany Watt Jan 2018

The Impact Of Colors On Learning, Bo Chang, Renmei Xu, Tiffany Watt

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The purpose of this review paper is to find out how colors can impact leaners’ learning by manipulating their cognition and emotions.


Career Pathways Programming For Adult Learners In Three U.S. Cities, Esther Prins, Carol Clymer, Sheri Suarez Foreman, Mark Needle, Becky Raymond, Blaire Willson Toso Jan 2018

Career Pathways Programming For Adult Learners In Three U.S. Cities, Esther Prins, Carol Clymer, Sheri Suarez Foreman, Mark Needle, Becky Raymond, Blaire Willson Toso

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This paper presents key findings from a researcher-practitioner partnership that examined career pathways programming among adult education providers in Chicago, Houston, and Miami.


Theorizing Best Practices For Preventing Sexual Assaults In Higher Education: Adult Educators' Perspectives, Amber Giffin, Mitsunori Misawa Jan 2018

Theorizing Best Practices For Preventing Sexual Assaults In Higher Education: Adult Educators' Perspectives, Amber Giffin, Mitsunori Misawa

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This paper analyzes the literature regarding universities’ sexual assault prevention programs in an effort to identify best practices for reducing the number of sexual assaults on university campuses.


Understanding Popular Education And Arts Based Learning Within Groups Through A Peace Workshop, Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Amy Ward Jan 2018

Understanding Popular Education And Arts Based Learning Within Groups Through A Peace Workshop, Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Amy Ward

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Through the experience of a Peace Workshop and literature, the importance of both informal and arts-based learning during group events is necessary. Community and group norms provides strong cohesiveness.


Collaboration And Cognitive Skills In The Workplace: Results From The Piaac Survey, Joshua Collins, Jill Zarestky, Ellen Scully-Russ, Tobin Lopes Jan 2018

Collaboration And Cognitive Skills In The Workplace: Results From The Piaac Survey, Joshua Collins, Jill Zarestky, Ellen Scully-Russ, Tobin Lopes

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Using the PIAAC survey, this study examined social characteristics of work and cognitive skills. Results negatively associated collaboration at work and PIAAC scores, contradicting current thinking on workplace interactions.


Living And Studying In The Us: An Ecological Systems Perspective, Simone C. Conceiçao, Liliana Mina, Todd Southern Jan 2018

Living And Studying In The Us: An Ecological Systems Perspective, Simone C. Conceiçao, Liliana Mina, Todd Southern

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International students encounter many issues when living and studying in the United States. It is essential to understand how these adult students make meaning of these experiences. The purpose of this study was to gain insights into the meaning of the lived experiences of international students living and studying in the U.S. six months after returning to their home country. Phenomenology was the research approach used to explore participants’ perspectives of their lived experiences. Findings show how the interactions between participants’ development and the multiple systems they lived through influenced their experiences and perspectives and contributed to their identity development. …


Expanding On Phenomenological Research Findings On Adult Learners’ Experiences With The Portfolio Process, Benjamin A. Jimenez Jan 2018

Expanding On Phenomenological Research Findings On Adult Learners’ Experiences With The Portfolio Process, Benjamin A. Jimenez

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This paper is a discussion on the finding that the participants created new and different learning on previously attained knowledge, skills, or abilities via the portfolio process.


Examining The Relationships Between Student Veterans And Faculty Members, Sierra C. Sullivan, Peggy Ann Everett Jan 2018

Examining The Relationships Between Student Veterans And Faculty Members, Sierra C. Sullivan, Peggy Ann Everett

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The researchers conducted a pilot study to guide a doctoral student in her dissertation topic. They conducted interviews with faculty members and student servicemembers/veterans to explore their experiences inside and outside the classroom.


Rebuilding Identity After A Natural Or Human Generated Disaster, Ann Brooks, Moira Martin, Michelle Holcomb Jan 2018

Rebuilding Identity After A Natural Or Human Generated Disaster, Ann Brooks, Moira Martin, Michelle Holcomb

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How do disaster survivors make sense of their lives? Drawing on three studies, we use the concepts of extended and relational self to understand how disaster survivors reconstruct their identities.


Informal Learning Within The Mother Daughter Dyad: Effect On Behavior And Attitude, Deanne G. Yates 2077423 Jan 2018

Informal Learning Within The Mother Daughter Dyad: Effect On Behavior And Attitude, Deanne G. Yates 2077423

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This roundtable will explore informal learning within the mother-daughter dyad and the role of informal learning on their perceptions of aging. The focus will be on how mothers and daughters understand the importance making meaning from an experience, memory, or conversation for learning to occur.


Making The Case For Doctoral Student Success Through Group Advising And Dissertations, Diane D. Chapman, Michelle Bartlett Jan 2018

Making The Case For Doctoral Student Success Through Group Advising And Dissertations, Diane D. Chapman, Michelle Bartlett

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Many adult doctoral students at dissertation stage are isolated and unable to focus. Group advising and group dissertation work may combat barriers to completion and lead to greater student success.


Navigating Scholarly Development Through A Cop: #Generational-Lenses, Carol A. Olszewski Ma, Toni M. Paoletta Med, Keli B. Pontikos Ma, Matthew L. Selker Mpa, Kyle A. Znamenak Ma, Catherine A. Hansman Phd Jan 2018

Navigating Scholarly Development Through A Cop: #Generational-Lenses, Carol A. Olszewski Ma, Toni M. Paoletta Med, Keli B. Pontikos Ma, Matthew L. Selker Mpa, Kyle A. Znamenak Ma, Catherine A. Hansman Phd

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CoPs provide opportunity for professional identity exploration. Extant research neglects how multiple identities, including generational memberships, influence development. This study explores professional identity development of scholars within a multigenerational CoP.


Complex Pathways – What Motivates Adults To Upgrade Their Literacy And Numeracy Skills?, Alison J. Bowe Msc (Eng), Jill Auchinachie M.Ed., Laura Kinderman Phd, Faith Shields Phd Jan 2018

Complex Pathways – What Motivates Adults To Upgrade Their Literacy And Numeracy Skills?, Alison J. Bowe Msc (Eng), Jill Auchinachie M.Ed., Laura Kinderman Phd, Faith Shields Phd

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Focusing on data from a longitudinal study of 46 adult literacy learners, this roundtable will discuss motivations for upgrading grounded in the words of participants.


Abandoned Places Of Adult Education In Canada And Germany, Maren Elfert, Bernd Käpplinger, Suzanne Smythe Jan 2018

Abandoned Places Of Adult Education In Canada And Germany, Maren Elfert, Bernd Käpplinger, Suzanne Smythe

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The symposium discusses and compares abandoned places of adult education in Canada and Germany. These are physical (and intellectual) spaces that have been abandoned or moved, or changed its use


Online Instructional Design In The New World: Beyond Gagné, Briggs And Wager, Mary Wilson Jan 2018

Online Instructional Design In The New World: Beyond Gagné, Briggs And Wager, Mary Wilson

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MOOCs, Open Access, Badges... all these new technologies should provide a golden age for adult education online. Instead, profoundly traditional models of instructional design impose restrictions.


Dream Psychology Of North Korean Defectors In South Korea: Implicit Learning And Social Adjustment, Jinhee Choi Jan 2018

Dream Psychology Of North Korean Defectors In South Korea: Implicit Learning And Social Adjustment, Jinhee Choi

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This paper applies the theoretical framework of Fromm’s humanistic psychology to examine the reported content of North Korean defectors’ dreams during sleep and considers what the psychological data suggests about the defectors' past social experience in authoritarian North Korea and their present social situation as adults learning to adjust to a new life in neo-liberal South Korea.


Learning Through On-Farm Apprenticeships: Labor Identities And Sociocultural Reproduction Within Alternative Agrifood Movements, Lorien E. Macauley, Kim L. Niewolny Jan 2018

Learning Through On-Farm Apprenticeships: Labor Identities And Sociocultural Reproduction Within Alternative Agrifood Movements, Lorien E. Macauley, Kim L. Niewolny

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On-farm apprenticeship is a site of sociocultural learning for beginning farmers, and also for identity politics, mediated by social movement learning processes. This critical ethnographic case study examines this activity.


Mothers As “Others”: Identity Of Mothers Of Children With Disabilities And Adult Education Discourse, Tulare W. Park, Carol Rogers-Shaw Jan 2018

Mothers As “Others”: Identity Of Mothers Of Children With Disabilities And Adult Education Discourse, Tulare W. Park, Carol Rogers-Shaw

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This literature review will explore experiences and identity development of mothers of children with disabilities. Intersections between adult education and critical disability theory, as well as practice implications, are identified.


Community Organizing In/As Adult Education, Thomas Archibald Jan 2018

Community Organizing In/As Adult Education, Thomas Archibald

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the conceptual and practical overlaps of adult education and community organizing, in an effort to promote participation, equity, and justice through adult education.


Searching For Own Space: Korean Female Graduate Students’ (Re)Construction Of Their Professional Selves In The U.S. Academia, Heh Youn Shin, Hyewon Park Jan 2018

Searching For Own Space: Korean Female Graduate Students’ (Re)Construction Of Their Professional Selves In The U.S. Academia, Heh Youn Shin, Hyewon Park

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Taking the transnational feminist approach, the purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions and experiences of Korean female graduate students in the U.S. higher education institution and the host society.


Immigrant Adult Education: A Literature Review, Cindy Pena, Peggy A. Everett, Jessica M. Quintero Jan 2018

Immigrant Adult Education: A Literature Review, Cindy Pena, Peggy A. Everett, Jessica M. Quintero

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This literature review explains and discusses challenges immigrants face when continuing their education in a foreign country.


Road Warriors: Fostering Object-Learner Assemblages Through A Social Context Of Embodied Learning, Jonathan A. Crothers Ms Jan 2018

Road Warriors: Fostering Object-Learner Assemblages Through A Social Context Of Embodied Learning, Jonathan A. Crothers Ms

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This study investigates how adults informally learn through engaging with the object of their bicycles in the social context of the sport of amateur road racing, and explores how this learning has shaped their individual and social identities.


The Pedagogy Of Play: The Joy Of Living, Learning, And Riding Motorcycles, Jeffrey Zacharakis Jan 2018

The Pedagogy Of Play: The Joy Of Living, Learning, And Riding Motorcycles, Jeffrey Zacharakis

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This research explores how the theoretical construct of lifelong learning is enriched through play, and proposes that the pedagogy of play might be an important new adult learning theory.


Profound Learning And Living: An Exploratory Delphi Study, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Michael Kroth Jan 2018

Profound Learning And Living: An Exploratory Delphi Study, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Michael Kroth

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This study, using Delphi methodology conceptualizes the qualities of profound learning, the profound learner, and profound living.


Women University Presidents: Learning Through Leadership Development Programs, Christiana Horn Jan 2018

Women University Presidents: Learning Through Leadership Development Programs, Christiana Horn

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Women administrators face a number of challenges in their pursuit of a university presidency. Leadership development programs provide valuable learning experiences that strengthen their potential of becoming a university president.


Gender Bias At The Intersection Of Engineering And Business: Implications For Workplace Education, Lisa Baumgartner, Jill Zarestky, Michelle Bigler, Malini Natarajarathinam Jan 2018

Gender Bias At The Intersection Of Engineering And Business: Implications For Workplace Education, Lisa Baumgartner, Jill Zarestky, Michelle Bigler, Malini Natarajarathinam

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Abstract: STEM and business fields historically include pervasive gender biases. To better integrate women, and based on results of an industry survey, we propose ways adult education may address such biases.


Transitioning Into Career Success: A Grounded Study On The Lifewide Learning Experiences Of Successful High Potential Individuals In Early Adulthood, Joslyn Johnson Jan 2018

Transitioning Into Career Success: A Grounded Study On The Lifewide Learning Experiences Of Successful High Potential Individuals In Early Adulthood, Joslyn Johnson

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This qualitative study looked at the lifewide learning experiences of high potential individuals that were able to reach career success and have a sense of fulfillment in early adulthood (23-39).


From A Distance: A Phenomenological Study Of The Lived Experience Of Telecommuters Working Remotely In Virtual Teams, Damien C. Michaud Jan 2018

From A Distance: A Phenomenological Study Of The Lived Experience Of Telecommuters Working Remotely In Virtual Teams, Damien C. Michaud

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In this paper, the social and emotional experience of telecommuters working remotely in interdependent virtual teams is explored through a phenomenological inquiry into participants' lived experiences.


Finding Opportunity In Change: Community Empowerment & Metagogy, Gabriele Strohschen Jan 2018

Finding Opportunity In Change: Community Empowerment & Metagogy, Gabriele Strohschen

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This paper shares the lessons learned about university-level adult education program development in the context of a Cross-Sector Collaborative in Chicago that developed the "Metagogy Theorem"


A Very Adult Curriculum? How The New Bc Education Plan Reflects The Andragogical Commitments Of Adult Education, Ralf St. Clair Jan 2018

A Very Adult Curriculum? How The New Bc Education Plan Reflects The Andragogical Commitments Of Adult Education, Ralf St. Clair

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Analyzes the recently introduced BC K-12 Curriculum through the lens of andragogy to understand the extent to which the values of adult education have informed policy and practice. Bernstein's code theory is used to frame the discussion.