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Articles 1801 - 1830 of 2024
Full-Text Articles in Education
Cultivating Imagination In Adult Education, Ron Norman
Cultivating Imagination In Adult Education, Ron Norman
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of imagination in teaching and learning, and to explore how Kieran Egan’s (1992) concept of "imaginative learning" contributes to adult education theory and practice.
Lessons From Central America: Action Research In An Adult English As A Foreign Language Program, Robert E. Nolan
Lessons From Central America: Action Research In An Adult English As A Foreign Language Program, Robert E. Nolan
Adult Education Research Conference
Analysts of policy have hitherto not paid much attention to how policy language acts to build up representations of reality. This paper agues for the usefulness of a discursive approach to policy analysis, and illustrates it in the context of emerging policies for ‘lifelong learning’.
Lifelong Learning As Metaphor: Researching Policy In The Education Of Adults, Katherine Nicoll
Lifelong Learning As Metaphor: Researching Policy In The Education Of Adults, Katherine Nicoll
Adult Education Research Conference
Analysts of policy have hitherto not paid much attention to how policy language acts to build up representations of reality. This paper agues for the usefulness of a discursive approach to policy analysis, and illustrates it in the context of emerging policies for ‘lifelong learning’.
Control, Learning, And Resistance, Michael Newman
Control, Learning, And Resistance, Michael Newman
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper argues that learning can be a tool for social and political change. It proposes a theoretical framework for educators and learners living out part or all of their lives in struggle. And it examines a moral dilemma for educators who see learning as indivisible from action.
Cultures Of Teaching, Tom Nesbit
Cultures Of Teaching, Tom Nesbit
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explores some of the hidden regularities of classroom practices in adult education and examines possible explanations towards developing a clearer understanding of the social practice of teaching.
Transformation Toward What End? Exploring Later Life Learning In Community Volunteering, Miya Narushima
Transformation Toward What End? Exploring Later Life Learning In Community Volunteering, Miya Narushima
Adult Education Research Conference
A qualitative study of 15 older volunteers in Toronto details how informal learning takes place in community volunteering, and urges the expansion of the concept of later life education during an era of increasing longevity and languishing welfare support
Aging And Learning In A Non-Western Culture: The Case Of Malaysia, Muhamad Mazanah, Sharan B. Merriam
Aging And Learning In A Non-Western Culture: The Case Of Malaysia, Muhamad Mazanah, Sharan B. Merriam
Adult Education Research Conference
A case study on older Malaysian men and women revealed that from their perspective, aging is seamless and a period of contentment. They are concerned about their health, spiritual, and community. They learn informally to meet the changing demands of their life. The learning is shaped by their cultural value.
The Promise – And Peril – Of Web-Based Course Delivery In Adult And Continuing Education, Vivian W. Mott
The Promise – And Peril – Of Web-Based Course Delivery In Adult And Continuing Education, Vivian W. Mott
Adult Education Research Conference
Much has been argued about the advantages and pitfalls of computer technology in the delivery of adult education. This research examined the use of web-based instruction in terms of learner attitudes, students’ differential use of computer technology, and the impact on learning outcomes and technological competency.
Models Of Community Development Practice, Allen B. Moore, Lilian H. Hill
Models Of Community Development Practice, Allen B. Moore, Lilian H. Hill
Adult Education Research Conference
We address two models developed in a research project that explored community development practice. We begin with a brief introduction of our research, continue with the presentation of the models, relate them to existing theory, and conclude with why the introduction of new models is justified.
The Ever Widening Gyre: Factors Affecting Change In Adult Education Graduate Programs, Judy Milton, Watkins, Spears Karen, Scarlette Studdard, Michele Burch
The Ever Widening Gyre: Factors Affecting Change In Adult Education Graduate Programs, Judy Milton, Watkins, Spears Karen, Scarlette Studdard, Michele Burch
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this survey study was to understand the factors that have influenced recent changes in the size of adult education graduate programs. We found that integration has a significant effect on changes in student enrollment while leadership, innovation, and integration all significantly predict variance in faculty growth.
Lifelong Learning Goes To The Movies: Autobiographical Narratives As Media Production, Nod Miller
Lifelong Learning Goes To The Movies: Autobiographical Narratives As Media Production, Nod Miller
Adult Education Research Conference
A blockbuster of a paper (nominated for Best Foreign Contribution) in which the heroine describes a perilous path through the territory of narrative theory and text construction. She encounters the threshold guardians of writer’s block and self-doubt, wrestles with shapeshifters, tricksters and shadows, rallies after encounters with mentors and allies and returns to the ordinary world with the elixir of lifelong learning (or, at least, a completed conference paper).
Questioning Research As A Contextual Practice, John Mclntyre, Nicky Solomon
Questioning Research As A Contextual Practice, John Mclntyre, Nicky Solomon
Adult Education Research Conference
Authoritative texts on research in adult education rarely question how research practice is shaped by its context of application. This paper attempts to develop a knowledge production perspective on research as contextualised practice, one that highlights the relationship between researcher understandings and the situations, participants, processes and texts of research.
Reconstituting The Agora: Towards An Alternative Politics Of Lifelong Learning, Ian Martin
Reconstituting The Agora: Towards An Alternative Politics Of Lifelong Learning, Ian Martin
Adult Education Research Conference
The paper proposes an explicit politicisation of the idea of lifelong learning as learning for democracy – as distinct from the dominant but implicit account of it as learning to labour. This requires that adult education as an agent of lifelong learning reoccupies the political and curricular space in which citizens make democracy work.
Adult Learner-Centered Institutions: Best Practices For The 21st Century, Susan Mancuso
Adult Learner-Centered Institutions: Best Practices For The 21st Century, Susan Mancuso
Adult Education Research Conference
Adult student enrollment in higher education is approaching 50%, yet most college practices have been designed for younger, traditional age students. This study uses a benchmarking research methodology, including surveys and site visits, to identify best practices at selected adult centered institutions. The findings were distilled into one overarching theme and thirteen related themes.
Constructing Pedagogic Identities: Versions Of The Educator In Ae And He, Janice Malcolm, Miriam Zukas
Constructing Pedagogic Identities: Versions Of The Educator In Ae And He, Janice Malcolm, Miriam Zukas
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper analyses the relationships between pedagogic identities in HE and AE, suggesting that HE could build its social purpose orientation and reclaim pedagogy by learning from the AE community.
Refocusing Faculty Development: The View From An Adult Learning Perspective, Patricia A. Lawler, Kathleen P. King
Refocusing Faculty Development: The View From An Adult Learning Perspective, Patricia A. Lawler, Kathleen P. King
Adult Education Research Conference
The Adult Learning Model of Faculty Development draws from the research, theory and practice of adult learning and adult education program planning. This new model recognizes faculty as adult learners and faculty development as adult education. It offers strategies for effective initiatives.
"Training And The New Industrial Relations": New Zealand Research That Explores Streeck’S Thesis, Michael Law, Piercy Gemma
"Training And The New Industrial Relations": New Zealand Research That Explores Streeck’S Thesis, Michael Law, Piercy Gemma
Adult Education Research Conference
This New Zealand research finds some support for Wolfgang Streeck’s thesis that education and training offer unions strategic possibilities in a neo-liberal environment. But it also finds that political strategies are necessary when unions’ quasi-constitutional status has been substantially diminished.
Beyond Transformative Learning: Work, Ethical Space And Adult Education, Elizabeth Lange
Beyond Transformative Learning: Work, Ethical Space And Adult Education, Elizabeth Lange
Adult Education Research Conference
This study concludes that transformative learning must be dialectically related to restorative learning given the progressive loss of ethical efficacy in the workplace and loss of organic connections to time, space, body and human relations.
A Critical Autobiography Of Moral Learning Across Four Generations Of The Woman’S Christian Temperance Union: A Feminist Genealogy, Dorothy Agnes Lander
A Critical Autobiography Of Moral Learning Across Four Generations Of The Woman’S Christian Temperance Union: A Feminist Genealogy, Dorothy Agnes Lander
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative evaluation of the intergenerational moral learning related to the activist work of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) constitutes a critical re-membering of growing up in a WCTU home and community. I trace the public and private continuities and discontinuities of moral learning across four generations of Ontario WCTU families in the 20th century.
Comparison Of National E&T-Cultures: Findings Of A Transnational Research Project In Uk, Germany, Italy, France And Portugal, Michael Kuhn
Comparison Of National E&T-Cultures: Findings Of A Transnational Research Project In Uk, Germany, Italy, France And Portugal, Michael Kuhn
Adult Education Research Conference
The paper presents the findings of a transnational project shedding some light on the role of national VET-cultures in 5 EU-member-states performing joint labour market policies. In focus group interviews with the main social actors in VET, trainees, industrialists and trainers, both intra-cultural between the groups and inter-cultural differences between the countries will be investigated.
Mediating Meaning-Making: The Process Of Symbolic Action In Transformative Pedagogy, Olga V. Kritskaya, John M. Dirkx
Mediating Meaning-Making: The Process Of Symbolic Action In Transformative Pedagogy, Olga V. Kritskaya, John M. Dirkx
Adult Education Research Conference
Conditions for fostering transformative learning within the formal learning setting were examined. The paper focused on the role of the text and the use of symbols and images in construction of meanings associated with the content being studied.
Educational Technology That Transforms: Educators' Transformational Learning Experiences In Professional Development, Kathleen P. King
Educational Technology That Transforms: Educators' Transformational Learning Experiences In Professional Development, Kathleen P. King
Adult Education Research Conference
Research conducted among 175 teachers engaged in learning educational technology reveals that transformational learning provides insights into their experiences of learning to use technology in their teaching. As facilitators and themes of perspective transformation are presented, recommendations for faculty development in educational technology are discussed.
Towards A Generic Approach To Assessment In Adult And Continuing Education, David J. Jones
Towards A Generic Approach To Assessment In Adult And Continuing Education, David J. Jones
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper offers a theoretical model for the assessment of student learning which centres on the nature of the evidence we use in order to carry out these assessments. It addresses questions of how we can identify what learning has taken place and what evidence is acceptable for such an identification.
Race And Adult Education: A Critical Review Of The North American Literature, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Ronald M. Cervero
Race And Adult Education: A Critical Review Of The North American Literature, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Ronald M. Cervero
Adult Education Research Conference
The paper critically evaluates the North American literature showing how race has been treated historically and presents three perspectives on race that inform contemporary research.
Researching Adult Learners’ Reading Histories And Practices., Christine Jarvis
Researching Adult Learners’ Reading Histories And Practices., Christine Jarvis
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper presents the results of an empirical study which explored the reading histories and practices of mature women students on a UK Access to Higher Education course. Such courses provide an alternative route to Higher Education for adults who left school without achieving University entry qualifications. The paper considers a relatively neglected aspect of research in adult education – research into students’ reading practices. It argues that such research can enable us to support more effectively adult returners whose approaches to texts may be dramatically different from those of individuals who have experienced a conventional education.
Edge Of Empire: The Civilizing Mission Of Adult Education In Vancouver And Early British Columbia, 1858-1918, Ian Hunt
Adult Education Research Conference
Throughout the British Empire, an educational mission was established under imperialism's patronage, to study and categorize the new world, and to bring civilization and culture to the colonies. Nineteenth and early 20th century British Columbia was no exception. The civilizing mission of colonizers was to bring to British Columbia some of the finest of British and European cultural sensibilities--to make British Columbia British.
Wyrd Questions: Re-Framing Adult/ Community Education, Cheryl Hunt
Wyrd Questions: Re-Framing Adult/ Community Education, Cheryl Hunt
Adult Education Research Conference
There is a growing body of popular literature associated with ‘new paradigm’ research, the development of the Gaia hypothesis, and the meaning of ‘spirituality’ in today’s society. This paper suggests why adult/ community education should be re-framed within this context; and looks at some implications for model-building.
Life Situations And Institutional Supports Of Women University Students With Family And Job Responsibilities, Alice Home, Cora Hinds
Life Situations And Institutional Supports Of Women University Students With Family And Job Responsibilities, Alice Home, Cora Hinds
Adult Education Research Conference
This empirical study focuses on Canadian women studying adult education, social work, and nursing, while managing paid work and family roles. Qualitative data illustrate survey findings on the contribution of life situations and institutional supports to role strain and stress experienced by these non-traditional university students.
Menacing Feminism, Educating Sisters, Robert J. Hill
Menacing Feminism, Educating Sisters, Robert J. Hill
Adult Education Research Conference
Menacing Feminism, Educating Sisters
Organization Development Practitioners, Lilian H. Hill
Organization Development Practitioners, Lilian H. Hill
Adult Education Research Conference
This study describes changes in human consciousness, characterized by a move to holistic thinking informed by ecology, social justice, and spirituality, and were people-centered and purpose-driven.