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The Struggle Over Lifelong Learning: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis, Shahrzad Mojab, Rachel Gorman
The Struggle Over Lifelong Learning: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis, Shahrzad Mojab, Rachel Gorman
Adult Education Research Conference
The concept of lifelong learning has become both an ideological distraction that shifts the burden of increasing adaptability to the worker, and a ray of hope for a more democratic and engaged citizenry. The purpose of this paper is to provide a Marxist-feminist analysis of the responses of the field of adult education to the concept of lifelong learning.
The Intricacies Of Initiate-Response-Evaluate In Adult Literacy Education, Patsy Medina
The Intricacies Of Initiate-Response-Evaluate In Adult Literacy Education, Patsy Medina
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The results of a study of adult literacy education classroom dynamics found that the predominant mode of instruction closely parallels the initiation-response-evaluation (IRE) mode that Mehan (1979) identified in his study of an elementary education classroom. The initial conclusion of this study was that adult literacy education closely parallels elementary education. A closer analysis of the data, generated some interesting differentiations.
Spirituality And Social Action: An Exploration Of Committed Environmental Activists, Barbara Mcdonald
Spirituality And Social Action: An Exploration Of Committed Environmental Activists, Barbara Mcdonald
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines the spirituality of committed environmental activists. Eight descriptors of spirituality are offered, and spirituality's relationship to adult learning is explored.
Negotiating Curriculum In A Critical Pedagogy, Peter G. Malvicini
Negotiating Curriculum In A Critical Pedagogy, Peter G. Malvicini
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Through critical reflection and dialog on experiences in participatory planning, curricula that values participatory democracy can be fostered. An empirical study, using participatory research, demonstrates that students and faculty can move toward a more critical and inclusive pedagogy by reflecting on cultural diversity.
Managing Power: The Practical Work Of Negotiating Interests, Christie Knittel Mabry, Arthur L. Wilson
Managing Power: The Practical Work Of Negotiating Interests, Christie Knittel Mabry, Arthur L. Wilson
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The purpose of this study was to investigate how adult educators negotiate power and interests in program planning for training and development in a corporate setting. The research methodology was a descriptive qualitative study of typical program planning practices of adult educators in a multi-national corporation. The chief finding was that planners' "practical" strategic action for negotiating interests and power varied according to specific situations and how planners perceived the involvement of various stakeholders.
Cultural Mentors: Exploring The Role Of Relationships In The Adaptation And Transformation Of Women Educators Who Go Overseas To Work, Carol R. Lyon
Cultural Mentors: Exploring The Role Of Relationships In The Adaptation And Transformation Of Women Educators Who Go Overseas To Work, Carol R. Lyon
Adult Education Research Conference
The overseas experiences of thirteen women educators in adult and higher education were characterized by four chronological stages: departure, first three months, after three months, and re-entry. Four stages of relationships emerged to coincide with the chronological contexts. The line between personal and professional relationships was often blurred.
Modal-Ontological Status Of Subjectivity In The Context Of Adult Education: Possibilities And Dilemmas, Antonina Lukenchuk
Modal-Ontological Status Of Subjectivity In The Context Of Adult Education: Possibilities And Dilemmas, Antonina Lukenchuk
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This paper intends to demonstrate the importance of metaphysical arguments for interpretations of the nature of adult and adult education and to connect these arguments with current theories of adult learning, development and transformation. Broadly conceived, this research represents theorizing from the literature that may shed an additional light on the problems of personal identity in the context of adult education.
Enrolment And Retention In Adult Basic Education Programs Some Theoretical Implications Of A National Study Follow-Up Study, Ellen Long
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Using the findings of a national follow-up study (n=338), this paper discusses the factors associated with nonenrolment and dropping out of literacy and upgrading programs. In addition to illuminating the complexity of low enrolment and high drop out rates, the paper moves toward a more integrated understanding of the structural and agency-related explanations for these patterns.
Voices From Within-Homemakers As Agents For Social Change, Shu-Chuan Liao
Voices From Within-Homemakers As Agents For Social Change, Shu-Chuan Liao
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This study is to document how Taiwanese women learned from participating in social action. The focus is on homemakers who are socially marginalized but are involved in private as well as public spheres and speak out on various issues which relate to their everyday lives. The findings suggest that ordinary people can be agents for social change via social movement learning.
The Skewed Voices And Lost Meaning: The Reflections Of Multilingual Issues In The Cross-Cultural Context, Ming-Yeh Lee
The Skewed Voices And Lost Meaning: The Reflections Of Multilingual Issues In The Cross-Cultural Context, Ming-Yeh Lee
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the correlative effects of multilingualism, as it is associated within a cross-cultural context. Strategies that were used to assure language accuracy and reliability of the study will also be discussed.
Collaborative Inquiry: Expanding The Boundaries Of Knowledge Construction In Graduate Adult Education Research, Randee Lipson Lawrence, Jane West Walsh, Nadira K. Charaniya
Collaborative Inquiry: Expanding The Boundaries Of Knowledge Construction In Graduate Adult Education Research, Randee Lipson Lawrence, Jane West Walsh, Nadira K. Charaniya
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this roundtable session is to share ideas about collaborative inquiry as a research methodology. Facilitators include a faculty member from a doctoral program that encourages collaborative learning and collaborative inquiry, and two students, from the same doctoral program, who completed a fully collaborative doctoral research project.
Separate But (Unequal)? A Critical Investigation Of Disabled Adults' Access To Online Education, Linda Klimczyk
Separate But (Unequal)? A Critical Investigation Of Disabled Adults' Access To Online Education, Linda Klimczyk
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Online distance education technology has the potential to include adults with disabilities by allowing for the use of adaptive technology in order to provide an accessible learning environment. Paradoxically, however, online distance education can also be a barrier to access.
Oppositional Feminist Ethnography: What Does It Have To Offer Adult Education?, Jodi Kaufmann
Oppositional Feminist Ethnography: What Does It Have To Offer Adult Education?, Jodi Kaufmann
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In this paper I struggle to understand oppositional feminist ethnography and examine what it may offer us in Adult Education, as it appears to have the propensity to multiply difference and deal with complexity without collapsing it into the normative.
Adult Learner Experiences Of An Accelerated Degree Program, Carol Kasworm
Adult Learner Experiences Of An Accelerated Degree Program, Carol Kasworm
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This qualitative case study explored the experiences of adult learners in an undergraduate accelerated degree program. Key beliefs of the experience focused upon four themes: 1) the adult degree program as a supportive world, 2) fellow students as a family, 3) successful adult students are dedicated, and 4) the paradoxical involvement in learning in an accelerated program.
Learning Culture, David Jones
Learning Culture, David Jones
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This paper aims to develop a theoretical framework for analysing the ways in which adult education can contribute to the development of cultural values and cultural identity.
Comparison Of Power Relations Within Electronic And Face-To-Face Classroom Discussions: A Case Study, Laurel Jeris
Comparison Of Power Relations Within Electronic And Face-To-Face Classroom Discussions: A Case Study, Laurel Jeris
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Numerous aspects of design and delivery of online instruction are well researched but little exists on power relations of electronic versus face-to-face discussions and consequences for learning. This case study centers on the experiences of participants in a graduate course in human resource management. Implications for reconsidering prevailing views of adult education are discussed.
"Place": Classrooms And Cyberspace--A Discourse Analysis Of How Place Shapes Interaction And Learning, Hyungmi Hyun, Susan Strauss
"Place": Classrooms And Cyberspace--A Discourse Analysis Of How Place Shapes Interaction And Learning, Hyungmi Hyun, Susan Strauss
Adult Education Research Conference
This is a cross-environmental study focusing on how interactants in two distinct learning settings communicate and engage in course-related planning and problem solving-activities as members of their particular academic community. One setting is a face-to-face class; the second is the identical course offered on-line. The primary methodological approach is discourse analysis.
The Production Of Knowledge In Work Teams: The View From Below, Sharon L. Howell
The Production Of Knowledge In Work Teams: The View From Below, Sharon L. Howell
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This paper examines the experiences of entry level hourly wage workers in a workplace shaped by the "excellence" movement. Their micro-level encounters with the "new work order" are set within the macro-level economic, political and cultural context that structures the work experience.
Conversations With Long-Time Adult Educators, Deana Hensley, Patricia A. Maher, Denise Passmore
Conversations With Long-Time Adult Educators, Deana Hensley, Patricia A. Maher, Denise Passmore
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The purpose of this study was to collect and analyze information from long-time adult educators, to learn from their experiences, and to ensure the wisdom they have gained throughout their time spent in the field is not lost.
Reinventing The Adult Education Curriculum Within An Urban Latino Community, Tom Hearney, Roberto Sanabria, Elizabeth Tesdell, Wendy Figueroa, Delilah Garcia, Marvin Garcia, Lourdes Lugo, Gloricelly Martinez-Franceschi, Socorro Rivera, Tito Rodriquez, Erica Van Opstal
Reinventing The Adult Education Curriculum Within An Urban Latino Community, Tom Hearney, Roberto Sanabria, Elizabeth Tesdell, Wendy Figueroa, Delilah Garcia, Marvin Garcia, Lourdes Lugo, Gloricelly Martinez-Franceschi, Socorro Rivera, Tito Rodriquez, Erica Van Opstal
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper will examine an adult education Masters program developed in collaboration with an urban Latino community. Its pedagogy and its content are described in the voices of students reflecting on how they have applied their new understandings and research skills to social change initiatives within the community.
The Politics Of Learning At Work: Experiences Of African American Women In Entry-Level Jobs, Elisabeth Hayes, Wendy Way
The Politics Of Learning At Work: Experiences Of African American Women In Entry-Level Jobs, Elisabeth Hayes, Wendy Way
Adult Education Research Conference
This research was designed to investigate the on-the-job learning of low-income African American women in entry-level jobs, in particular the relationships between the social context of the workplace, the nature of these jobs, and the kind of skills and knowledge the women acquired. We draw implications for adult basic education research and practice, in which the provision of work-related education for low-income women has become increasingly important due to the effects of welfare reform.
Who Plans? Who Participates? Critically Examining Mentoring Programs, Catherine A. Hansman
Who Plans? Who Participates? Critically Examining Mentoring Programs, Catherine A. Hansman
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the literature concerning formal mentoring programs from a socialist feminist perspective that allows an examination of power issues and the intersection of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation within mentoring relationships.
Articulations Between Global And Local Development Agendas In South African Adult Education And Training Policies. Whither Social Transformation?, Zelda Groener
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Convergences, tensions and contradictions between global and local development agendas in South African adult education and training policies undermine initiatives to redress the adult education and training inequalities which plague the lives of 13 million black adults.
Are Linguistic Responses Similar In Adult Literacy Students And Third-Fifth Grade Children?, Daphne Greenberg
Are Linguistic Responses Similar In Adult Literacy Students And Third-Fifth Grade Children?, Daphne Greenberg
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This roundtable discussion will focus on a study of adult learners and children who recognize words at the third-fifth grade levels. Their responses to different linguistic task items will be compared and analyzed. Theoretical and instructional implications will be discussed.
Using Queer Knowledges To Build Inclusionary Pedagogy In Adult Education, Andre P. Grace, Robert J. Hill
Using Queer Knowledges To Build Inclusionary Pedagogy In Adult Education, Andre P. Grace, Robert J. Hill
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This paper turns to queer history, theory, and studies to develop themes useful to adult educators who wish to build alternative pedagogies that explore issues of difference, inclusion, transgressive politics, knowledge production, and the inextricable link between culture and power.
Adult Education And The Scientific Community, Jesus Gomez-Alonso, Tere Sorde-Marti
Adult Education And The Scientific Community, Jesus Gomez-Alonso, Tere Sorde-Marti
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In this paper, we analyzed the recent developments of the AE Scientific Community in Spain. Particularly, we focus in which factors have made possible to overcome its isolated initial situation towards a high quality one. Finally, we identified current works and future trends in order to characterized its main aspects such as its dialogic approach as a result of their interdisciplinary and interinstitutional efforts.
Transgressive Possibilities In Post-Corporate Enterprise Culture, Tara J. Fenwick
Transgressive Possibilities In Post-Corporate Enterprise Culture, Tara J. Fenwick
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Leadership For Action: Wedding Adult Education And Social Change, Dorothy Ettling
Leadership For Action: Wedding Adult Education And Social Change, Dorothy Ettling
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper presents an initial model of transformative education with adult women in a community setting designed to foster personal growth and the development of leadership capacities as a pathway to working for social change.
Learning And Earning: The Role Of Incentives In Educational Achievement, Olga Ebert, Mary Ziegler, Gail Cope
Learning And Earning: The Role Of Incentives In Educational Achievement, Olga Ebert, Mary Ziegler, Gail Cope
Adult Education Research Conference
Can external rewards develop intrinsic motivation? Based on the research projects conducted with adult basic education programs for recipients of public assistance, this roundtable will examine how incentives influence participation in educational activities and achievement of educational outcomes.
Spiritual Formation And Sexuality Education In Seminaries: What Can Adult Education Theory Contribute?, Sarah C. Conklin
Spiritual Formation And Sexuality Education In Seminaries: What Can Adult Education Theory Contribute?, Sarah C. Conklin
Adult Education Research Conference
This "research in progress" roundtable session seeks theoretical suggestions and strategies for encouraging spiritual development, perspective transformation, self knowledge and development of the whole person within the education of adult helping professionals, especially clergy. The goal of such development is the sexual and spiritual health of clergy and their congregants.