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40 Years From Education As The Practice Of Freedom: New Perspectives On Paulo Freire From Latin America, Maria Luisa De Aguiar Amorim, Fleipe De J. Perez Cruz, Rolando Pinto Contreras, John D. Holst, Maria Alicia Vetter, Robert E. Bahruth Dec 2007

40 Years From Education As The Practice Of Freedom: New Perspectives On Paulo Freire From Latin America, Maria Luisa De Aguiar Amorim, Fleipe De J. Perez Cruz, Rolando Pinto Contreras, John D. Holst, Maria Alicia Vetter, Robert E. Bahruth

Adult Education Research Conference

The year 2007 marks the 40th anniversary of the original publication in Portuguese of Paulo Freire’s first book, Education as the Practice of Freedom. In honor of this anniversary, this symposium brings together Latin American pedagogues to discuss the development and continued relevance of Freire’s work.


Symposium: Critical Perspectives On Practitioner Research, Mary Hamilton, Yvon Appleby, Sondra Cuban, Alisa Belzer, Maria Kambouri Dec 2007

Symposium: Critical Perspectives On Practitioner Research, Mary Hamilton, Yvon Appleby, Sondra Cuban, Alisa Belzer, Maria Kambouri

Adult Education Research Conference

This symposium explores the ambiguities and tensions involved in carrying out practitioner research within specific funding and institutional contexts. It argues that more explicit recognition of these challenges is needed to realize the potential of PR.


Activist-Students: Radical Adult Education From Community To Campus – And Back Again, Donna Chovanec, Lee Ellis, Natasha Goudar, Evelyn Hamdon, Zenobia Jamal, Colin Piquette Dec 2007

Activist-Students: Radical Adult Education From Community To Campus – And Back Again, Donna Chovanec, Lee Ellis, Natasha Goudar, Evelyn Hamdon, Zenobia Jamal, Colin Piquette

Adult Education Research Conference

A panel of activist-students, each in a different phase of their academic study of adult education, use their own experiences to examine critical questions about the relationship between theory and practice in radical adult education.


Learning: A Processural Outcome Of Human Activity, Chang Gook Youn, Ian Baptiste Nov 2007

Learning: A Processural Outcome Of Human Activity, Chang Gook Youn, Ian Baptiste

Adult Education Research Conference

Via a critical appropriation of ideas from cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), this paper addresses three shortcomings in adult learning theories: insufficient guidance regarding how to systematically analyze learning that occurs in everyday life; 2) absence of mechanisms for overcoming subject-object dualism; and 3) insufficient analytic consideration for collective subjects.


Autobiography As Counter-Narrative: An Empirical Study Of How Race Enters And Structures The Stories Of Our Lives, Wendy B. Yanow Nov 2007

Autobiography As Counter-Narrative: An Empirical Study Of How Race Enters And Structures The Stories Of Our Lives, Wendy B. Yanow

Adult Education Research Conference

Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a lens through which to examine learning autobiography, and counter-storytelling as a method of CRT, this study offers a view of the world from the perspective of adult students’ racialized experiences.


An Exploration Of How The Confucian Notion Of Scholar-Official Has Impacted Chinese People’S View On Careers, Jie Xiong Nov 2007

An Exploration Of How The Confucian Notion Of Scholar-Official Has Impacted Chinese People’S View On Careers, Jie Xiong

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper reveals that scholar-official has impacted Chinese people’s view on careers by the imperial examination system for a long history. Tensions between higher education expansion and college student employment, the meaning of scholar-official and the imperial examinations, and the implication for developing tertiary vocational education in China are discussed.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Nov 2007

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss holiday dinner, Colby Holt, finals week oasis and legislation.


Institutional Ethnography: A Tool For Interrogating The Institutional And Political Conditions Of Individual Experience, Ursula T. Wright, Tonette S. Rocco Nov 2007

Institutional Ethnography: A Tool For Interrogating The Institutional And Political Conditions Of Individual Experience, Ursula T. Wright, Tonette S. Rocco

Adult Education Research Conference

Institutional ethnography is described and benefits and implications for adult education are discussed.


Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association Nov 2007

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for November 27, 2007 meeting.


Seconds, Wku Student Government Association Nov 2007

Seconds, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Seconds newsletter.


Literacy Educators’ Perspectives On Transformation And Authenticity, Brenda Wright, Patricia Cranton, B. Allan Quigley Nov 2007

Literacy Educators’ Perspectives On Transformation And Authenticity, Brenda Wright, Patricia Cranton, B. Allan Quigley

Adult Education Research Conference

We discuss how adults with low literacy skills have transformed through education and also raise epistemological questions on education’s place in the transformation and learning process.


Adult Learners And The Identities They Tell: Pedagogic Spaces For Inviting New Tales, Andrew Wojecki Nov 2007

Adult Learners And The Identities They Tell: Pedagogic Spaces For Inviting New Tales, Andrew Wojecki

Adult Education Research Conference

Adult learners often tell and retell their stories of learning. These previous experiences, encounters, and histories of learning are significant in the construction of adult learners’ identities, biographies, and relationships to learning. Narrative perspectives of identity invite adult educators in considering how their educative practices enable adult learners in further ‘storying’ themselves as active participants in learning, both within the lifeplace and workplace.


Using Biographical Research (Or Is It Auto/Biography?) To Illuminate Adult And Lifelong Learning: Contested And Illuminating Space, Linden West Nov 2007

Using Biographical Research (Or Is It Auto/Biography?) To Illuminate Adult And Lifelong Learning: Contested And Illuminating Space, Linden West

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper illustrates ‘the turn’ to biographical approaches in the study of adult learning and considers some contested issues in this ‘family’ of approaches. Especial attention is paid to issues of subjectivity and objectivity and the role of the researcher in shaping the subject (s) of her enquiry. However, the paper concludes by suggesting that, whatever the differences, such approaches offer unique and more holistic insights into the complexities of learning, lifewide and lifelong.


Immigration, Literacy, And Adult Education: The Policy Context, Lurong Wang Nov 2007

Immigration, Literacy, And Adult Education: The Policy Context, Lurong Wang

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper examines the institutional assumption of literacy that underpins Canadian immigration policy and adult literacy policy. My analysis focuses on how adult immigrants are positioned in policy contexts and what gaps or contradictions exist between the reality and policy discourses.


Catalysts For Collective Conscientization In Environmental Adult Education: Mr. Floatie, Tree Squatting And Save-Our-Surfers, Pierre Walter Nov 2007

Catalysts For Collective Conscientization In Environmental Adult Education: Mr. Floatie, Tree Squatting And Save-Our-Surfers, Pierre Walter

Adult Education Research Conference

This study examines how cultural codes in environmental adult education can be used to “frame” collective identity, develop counter-hegemonic ideologies, and catalyze “educative-activism” within social movements. Three diverse examples are discussed, spanning movements in urban Victoria, BC, the redwoods of northern California and the coral reefs and beaches of Hawai’i.


Teaching Critical Media Literacy In Adult And Higher Education: An Action Research Study, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Heather L. Stuckey, Patricia M. Thompson Nov 2007

Teaching Critical Media Literacy In Adult And Higher Education: An Action Research Study, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Heather L. Stuckey, Patricia M. Thompson

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper discusses three findings of critical media literacy study: pleasure as a motivator and deterrent to becoming critical; the importance of facilitated discussion; and learning from application to practice.


Shifting Boundaries: Community In A Blended E-Learning Experience, Terrie Lynn Thompson, Jennifer H. Kelland, Carmen G. Lawlor Nov 2007

Shifting Boundaries: Community In A Blended E-Learning Experience, Terrie Lynn Thompson, Jennifer H. Kelland, Carmen G. Lawlor

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper explores how learners construct and maintain community in a blended e-learning program in a graduate degree program. Findings suggest that individual’s expectations influenced their perceptions of the value of community, learners actively gauged how much of themselves to share, and feelings of community were enhanced by mixing face-to-face and online interactions.


Dialogic Management In Adult Education, Itxaso Tellado Nov 2007

Dialogic Management In Adult Education, Itxaso Tellado

Adult Education Research Conference

Dialogic management in adult education promotes an outstanding organizational practice for adult learning centers. The involvement of learners in decision making teams is essential to the success of shared governance and other participative structures and, is one of the aspects that explain the higher levels of participation in the school.


The Interplay Between Formal And Informal Training For Basic-Level Workers: Comparing Experiences In Canada And The United Kingdom, Maurice Taylor, Karen Evans, Alia Mohamed Nov 2007

The Interplay Between Formal And Informal Training For Basic-Level Workers: Comparing Experiences In Canada And The United Kingdom, Maurice Taylor, Karen Evans, Alia Mohamed

Adult Education Research Conference

This study investigated the types of formal and informal training activities of basic level employees using a qualitative multi-site case study research design. Seven programs from Canada and four programs from the North and South of England were chosen from small, medium and large businesses. The range of formal and informal training activities is described as well as a preliminary analysis of informal learning as both an activity and as a process for workers improving their literacy skills.


Healing From Dry Bones: Creative Expression As A Way Of Knowing In Diabetes Care, Heather L. Stuckey Nov 2007

Healing From Dry Bones: Creative Expression As A Way Of Knowing In Diabetes Care, Heather L. Stuckey

Adult Education Research Conference

A creative, action research process incorporated the use of metaphor and imagery in patient education to help illustrate the experience of living with diabetes through multiple ways of knowing. Findings and implications for practice in adult education and patient care are discussed.


Adult Education And Critical Global Citizenship, Makere Stewart-Harawira, Lee Ellis Nov 2007

Adult Education And Critical Global Citizenship, Makere Stewart-Harawira, Lee Ellis

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper addresses two areas of critical concern regarding adult education and conceptions of global citizenship: the impact of deep integration of the Americas and the invisibility of the Indigenous world view in adult education literature regarding citizenship and human rights. It argues for a radial reconceptualization of these key areas.


Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate Nov 2007

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding meeting attendance, charter revision, faculty handbook, elections, Gary Ransdell's contract, strategic planning, University College, ombudsman, student evaluation of faculty and SGA walkout.


Discovering Self And Purpose In The Arts: The Role Of Imagination And Creativity In Transformative Learning And Adult Education’S Responsibility In Facilitating This Learning For Individual And Social Change., Soni Simpson Nov 2007

Discovering Self And Purpose In The Arts: The Role Of Imagination And Creativity In Transformative Learning And Adult Education’S Responsibility In Facilitating This Learning For Individual And Social Change., Soni Simpson

Adult Education Research Conference

This study introduces a Lotus-Layered Triangulation Model® and an Elements of Being for Transformational Readiness Model® while exploring the role of creativity in transformation. Collage was a powerful arts-based research tool and creative expression found to significantly enhance transformative learning. The research informs program developers about the potential for creative expression in adult education programs for transformation.


Practices On The Periphery: Highly Educated Chinese Immigrant Women Making Occupational Niches In Canada, Hongxia Shan Nov 2007

Practices On The Periphery: Highly Educated Chinese Immigrant Women Making Occupational Niches In Canada, Hongxia Shan

Adult Education Research Conference

I examine learning as part of the process where immigrants negotiate personal and profession identities and participate in the Canadian labour market. I argue for a mutually-constitutive relationship between individual practices, identity construction and Canadian workplace accessibility and receptivity underpinned by gender, race and class relations and perceived language differences.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Nov 2007

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding banquet, retreats, Dynamic Leadership Institute and legislation.


“Just A Minute Sweetheart, Mom’S Writing A Paper” Home, Flexible Learning, And Learning Biographies With Uneven Plots, Laura Servage Nov 2007

“Just A Minute Sweetheart, Mom’S Writing A Paper” Home, Flexible Learning, And Learning Biographies With Uneven Plots, Laura Servage

Adult Education Research Conference

Explorations of “postmodern time,” the accelerating effects of technology, and long-standing challenges of work-life balance are presented to question the impacts of online study in the home on the learning experiences of working adults. The flexibility that makes online learning appealing may have unexplored costs and consequences for the quality of learning, and the quality of family life.


Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association Nov 2007

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for November 13, 2007 meeting.


Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Nov 2007

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding email, cafeteria hours, meal plans, computer labs, International Office and finals week oasis.


Seconds, Wku Student Government Association Nov 2007

Seconds, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Seconds newsletter.


Changing Men: Integrating Freirian Education, Human Relations Training, And Anti-Oppression Education In A Men’S Transformational Learning Experience, Steven A. Schapiro Nov 2007

Changing Men: Integrating Freirian Education, Human Relations Training, And Anti-Oppression Education In A Men’S Transformational Learning Experience, Steven A. Schapiro

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper presents a model of a pedagogy for anti-sexist education for men, drawing on and integrating principles and practices from the three approaches noted in the title, and adapting Kegan’s conceptualization of the various kinds of learning (or holding) environments necessary to support developmental change.