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Culturally Relevant Practice Frameworks And Application In Adult Education, Patrice B. French Jun 2019

Culturally Relevant Practice Frameworks And Application In Adult Education, Patrice B. French

Adult Education Research Conference

This literature review examines the use of three frameworks on culturally relevant practices influence on adult education, by comparing framework components to andragogical principles and process elements.


Resources For Military Veterans In Higher Education: A Web-Based Content Analysis, Thomas R. Cruise, Mitsunori Misawa Jan 2019

Resources For Military Veterans In Higher Education: A Web-Based Content Analysis, Thomas R. Cruise, Mitsunori Misawa

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this proposed web-based content analysis presentation is to explore the available resources for military veterans pursuing higher educational opportunities.


Technology Use And Integration In Adult Education And Literacy Classrooms, Glenda Lynn Rose, Chih-Wei Wang, Amanda Sainz, Suresh Joshi Jan 2019

Technology Use And Integration In Adult Education And Literacy Classrooms, Glenda Lynn Rose, Chih-Wei Wang, Amanda Sainz, Suresh Joshi

Adult Education Research Conference

Instructors and programs in adult education and literacy classrooms face challenges with technology integration due to minimal internet and mobile phone service availability, and limited financial support for professional development.


Teaching, Learning, And Collaborating: Voices From Instructional Designers When Preparing Graduate Faculty For Online Instruction, Dr. Mattyna Stephens Jan 2019

Teaching, Learning, And Collaborating: Voices From Instructional Designers When Preparing Graduate Faculty For Online Instruction, Dr. Mattyna Stephens

Adult Education Research Conference

The research sought to explore the experiences of eight instructional designers when preparing graduate faculty for online instruction and design.


Exploring The Grit Narrative Through Andragogy: Implications For Adult Education, Jennifer L. Pemberton, Ted Mccadden Jan 2019

Exploring The Grit Narrative Through Andragogy: Implications For Adult Education, Jennifer L. Pemberton, Ted Mccadden

Adult Education Research Conference

An exploration of the intersection of andragogy and the grit narrative serves to position grit in the adult education literature and considers the unsuitability of this ideology for adult learners.


Women Professor’S Ways Of Working In Academia, Rachel Wlodarsky, Catherine Hansman Jan 2019

Women Professor’S Ways Of Working In Academia, Rachel Wlodarsky, Catherine Hansman

Adult Education Research Conference

We address women’s development theories that might explain women professors’ academic identity, unique pressures faced by women faculty members, and how these issues impact work-life balance.


Erotica As Public Pedagogy: Learning Identity Through Popular Cultural Sources, Carolyn Meeker, Craig M. Mcgill Jan 2019

Erotica As Public Pedagogy: Learning Identity Through Popular Cultural Sources, Carolyn Meeker, Craig M. Mcgill

Adult Education Research Conference

Women who are feminist and submissive struggle to learn about and navigate their identities. This study found popular cultural texts played a key role in identity construction for these women.


Contemporary Approaches To Qualitative Research: Andragogical Strategies For Teaching And Learning, Tiffany T. Young, Wayne A. Babchuk Jan 2019

Contemporary Approaches To Qualitative Research: Andragogical Strategies For Teaching And Learning, Tiffany T. Young, Wayne A. Babchuk

Adult Education Research Conference

This inquiry provides practical guidelines for teaching and learning qualitative research methodology in adult education. Step-by-step procedures are clearly articulated for novice researchers and those new to qualitative research.


Curation In Education: Implications For Adult Educators In Teaching And Research, Catherine A. Cherrstrom, Carrie Boden Jan 2019

Curation In Education: Implications For Adult Educators In Teaching And Research, Catherine A. Cherrstrom, Carrie Boden

Adult Education Research Conference

This systematic and integrative literature review examined curation in education with implications for adult educators in teaching and research and adult students in learning.


Four-Dimensional Model For Doctoral Student Support, Simone C. Conceição, Lilian H. Hill Jan 2019

Four-Dimensional Model For Doctoral Student Support, Simone C. Conceição, Lilian H. Hill

Adult Education Research Conference

Doctoral education demands significant time, energy, financial, and emotional commitments. Depending on the characteristics of the doctoral student, barriers to completion and challenges with the doctoral process can require unique types of support. The purpose of this paper is to examine institutional and instructional support that lead to doctoral student progress and propose a model involving social, emotional, mental, and behavioral dimensions that derive strategies for doctoral student support.


“Can You Just Move The Curtain?”: Stories Of Women From The Educational Underclass At The College Door, Janet Kaplan-Bucciarelli Jan 2019

“Can You Just Move The Curtain?”: Stories Of Women From The Educational Underclass At The College Door, Janet Kaplan-Bucciarelli

Adult Education Research Conference

This study explores prospective students’ lives and beliefs about college, and proposes principles and practices that respond holistically to learners’ strengths and vulnerabilities rather than emphasizing academic deficiencies.


Disrupting Hostile Speech On Social Media: Indigenous Fishers And Allies Push Back For Ecojustice, Stan Goto Jan 2019

Disrupting Hostile Speech On Social Media: Indigenous Fishers And Allies Push Back For Ecojustice, Stan Goto

Adult Education Research Conference

This project considers challenges and opportunities for educators to disrupt hostile exchanges on social media concerning environmental sustainability and cultural practice. Postcolonial theory is used analyze fishing-related conversations.


Retrieval Practice As Process In Self-Directed Learning: New Philosophical Directions For Self-Directed Learning, Daniel A. Parker, Kevin M. Roessger Jan 2019

Retrieval Practice As Process In Self-Directed Learning: New Philosophical Directions For Self-Directed Learning, Daniel A. Parker, Kevin M. Roessger

Adult Education Research Conference

We explain retrieval practice and its potential benefits for adult self-directed learners. Moreover, we argue functional contextualism as an alternative research philosophy to self-directed learning’s humanist assumptions.


What’S In A Learning Theory? A Comparison Of Contemporary Learning Theories, Their Shared Elements, And Their Vision Of Society’S Role In Learning, Alexis Cherewka Jan 2019

What’S In A Learning Theory? A Comparison Of Contemporary Learning Theories, Their Shared Elements, And Their Vision Of Society’S Role In Learning, Alexis Cherewka

Adult Education Research Conference

Through discourse analysis of major theories of learning, this paper analyzes the role attributed to the social in contemporary learning theories in the field of adult education.


Serving The World Or Building A Profession: The Confounding Dilemmas Of Mid-Twentieth Century Academic Adult Education, Amy D. Rose, Catherine A. Hansman Jan 2019

Serving The World Or Building A Profession: The Confounding Dilemmas Of Mid-Twentieth Century Academic Adult Education, Amy D. Rose, Catherine A. Hansman

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper discusses the development and growth of an adult education professoriate and especially the growth and expansion of the CPAE in the 1950s and 1960s.


Ageism In The Workplace: A Review Of The Literature, Bora Jin, Lisa Baumgartner Jan 2019

Ageism In The Workplace: A Review Of The Literature, Bora Jin, Lisa Baumgartner

Adult Education Research Conference

This literature review will examine literature concerning ageism in the workplace and the influence on older adults’ workplace learning. Findings have implications for employers, employees, and adult educators.


Dare To Know By Thyself (Sapere Aude): The Legacy Of The Enlightenment And Post Enlightenment In Working-Class Adult Education, Maria A. Vetter Jan 2019

Dare To Know By Thyself (Sapere Aude): The Legacy Of The Enlightenment And Post Enlightenment In Working-Class Adult Education, Maria A. Vetter

Adult Education Research Conference

The Enlightenment and Post Enlightenment relationship to working-class adult education is examined in the case of the working class in Chile at the turn of the 20th century.


Perspectives On Feminist Approaches To Adult Education In International Education And Development Settings, Brigette A. Herron Jan 2019

Perspectives On Feminist Approaches To Adult Education In International Education And Development Settings, Brigette A. Herron

Adult Education Research Conference

This empirical paper describes the preliminary results of a qualitative interview study about the feminist pedagogy of women adult educators teaching in international and development settings.


Entrepreneurs’ Learning Skills And Strategies As Represented In The Piaac Survey Empirical Research, Sarah M. Ray, Tobin Lopes, Jill Zarestky Jan 2019

Entrepreneurs’ Learning Skills And Strategies As Represented In The Piaac Survey Empirical Research, Sarah M. Ray, Tobin Lopes, Jill Zarestky

Adult Education Research Conference

This study examined learning-skills and behaviors of self-employed individualsusing thePIAAC survey. Results indicate entrepreneurs use influence, negotiation skills, and apply new ideas to real-life situations more than employees.


Unexpected Learning: Development Of The Cop And Its Members #Generational-Shift, Carol A. Olszewski Ma, Mt-Bc, Kyle A. Znamenak Ma, Keli B. Pontikos Ma, Toni M. Paoletta Med, Catherine A. Hansman Phd, Karie A. Coffman Phd, Matthew L. Selker Mpa Jan 2019

Unexpected Learning: Development Of The Cop And Its Members #Generational-Shift, Carol A. Olszewski Ma, Mt-Bc, Kyle A. Znamenak Ma, Keli B. Pontikos Ma, Toni M. Paoletta Med, Catherine A. Hansman Phd, Karie A. Coffman Phd, Matthew L. Selker Mpa

Adult Education Research Conference

Our research explores how multigenerational CoPs may provide graduate students, particularly doctoral students, the space to explore and develop their professional identities and find their scholarly voices.


Reflecting Adult Education For Migrants: From What We Have Discussed To What We Have To Discuss, Kyoungjin Jang Jan 2019

Reflecting Adult Education For Migrants: From What We Have Discussed To What We Have To Discuss, Kyoungjin Jang

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this study is to conduct a critical reflection of the assumptions embedded in adult migrant education discourse based on a transnational perspective on migration. I reviewed what has been discussed in individual, sociocultural, and subject matter-related contexts of adult migrant education.


Profound Learning And Transformative Learning: Characteristics And Comparisons, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Michael Kroth, Carol Rogers Shaw Jan 2019

Profound Learning And Transformative Learning: Characteristics And Comparisons, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Michael Kroth, Carol Rogers Shaw

Adult Education Research Conference

This exploratory, theoretical study develops the concept of profound learning through a mutual interrogation of the literature and research of transformative learning.


Profound Leadership And Adult Education: An Integrative Review Of The Literature, Heidi Scott, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Leslie Hammes Jan 2019

Profound Leadership And Adult Education: An Integrative Review Of The Literature, Heidi Scott, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Leslie Hammes

Adult Education Research Conference

This integrative literature review presents profound leadership through the lens of key characteristics of servant leadership, authentic leadership, level five leadership, profound leadership, transformational leadership, and spiritual leadership.


Practicing A Culturally Responsive Feminist Pedagogy In Higher Education: An Examination Of A Feminist Classroom From The Perspective Of Transformative Learning, Mitsunori Misawa, Juanita Johnson-Bailey Jan 2019

Practicing A Culturally Responsive Feminist Pedagogy In Higher Education: An Examination Of A Feminist Classroom From The Perspective Of Transformative Learning, Mitsunori Misawa, Juanita Johnson-Bailey

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of our presentation is to explore how non-White professors, an Asian male pre-tenured professor and a Black female tenured full professor, negotiated their power in their feminist classroom.


Transformative Learning And Identity: A Review And Synthesis Of Dirkx And Illeris, Cheryl K. Baldwin Jan 2019

Transformative Learning And Identity: A Review And Synthesis Of Dirkx And Illeris, Cheryl K. Baldwin

Adult Education Research Conference

This review explores transformative learning and identity focusing on the works of John Dirkx and Knud Illeris. The synthesis creates a theoretical framework for research and continuing professional education practice.


The Loneliness Of A Solitary Dissertation Writer: Avoiding Isolation Through A Writing Community, Heh Youn Shin, Carol Rogers-Shaw, Colleen Unroe, Xiaoqiao Zhang Jan 2019

The Loneliness Of A Solitary Dissertation Writer: Avoiding Isolation Through A Writing Community, Heh Youn Shin, Carol Rogers-Shaw, Colleen Unroe, Xiaoqiao Zhang

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this literature review is to examine how various elements of writing groups, collaboration, and peer mentoring help doctoral students overcome obstacles and complete the dissertation process.


Paulo Freire As Learning Theorist, John Holst Jan 2019

Paulo Freire As Learning Theorist, John Holst

Adult Education Research Conference

I defend the thesis that Paulo Freire had a theory of learning. Contrary to what learning theorists sustain, I present a theory of learning in Freire’s work.


Intersection Between Andragogy And Transformative Learning, Somanita Kheang Jan 2019

Intersection Between Andragogy And Transformative Learning, Somanita Kheang

Adult Education Research Conference

The intersections between andragogy and transformative learning were observed through three lens: application of andragogy and transformative learning in classroom, spirituality, and various contexts where learning is a multi-dimensional phenomenon.


Situating Meaningfulness In Profound Living, Laura Holyoke, Sarah El-Mallah Jan 2019

Situating Meaningfulness In Profound Living, Laura Holyoke, Sarah El-Mallah

Adult Education Research Conference

Meaningfulness is regarded in literature as a significant aspect of life. Ourwork is concerned with situating the role of meaningfulness in living a profound life.


Education And Socialization For Elderly: A Comparative Study Between Portugal And Italy, Rute Cristóvão Ricardo, Andrea Porcarelli Jan 2019

Education And Socialization For Elderly: A Comparative Study Between Portugal And Italy, Rute Cristóvão Ricardo, Andrea Porcarelli

Adult Education Research Conference

Universities of Third Age (UTA) have been assuming a central role in elderly education. This research investigates the dynamics of education and socialization in UTA, considering impacts on individuals.