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“Crash”-Ing Into Pop Culture In Dealing With Diversity: Adult Education And Critical Media Literacy About Movies And Television, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Patricia M. Thompson
“Crash”-Ing Into Pop Culture In Dealing With Diversity: Adult Education And Critical Media Literacy About Movies And Television, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Patricia M. Thompson
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper reports on the qualitative component of a study of what adult educators and adult learners “learn” about themselves and others based on portrayals of characters in film and television more generally, with particular attention to the recent Paul Haggis film “Crash.”
A Critical Review Of The Empirical Research Of Transformative Learning (1999-2005), Edward W. Taylor
A Critical Review Of The Empirical Research Of Transformative Learning (1999-2005), Edward W. Taylor
Adult Education Research Conference
This is a review of transformative learning (TL) since 1998 involving 40 empirical studies. Findings include trends of less emphasis on identifying transformative experiences in different setting, and more about fostering TL and better understanding the nature of critical reflection, relationships, a perspective transformation, and context. Also, research designs are becoming more sophisticated.
Build It But They May Not Come: Subjective Factors In Participation Decisions Among Under-Represented Groups, Ralf St. Clair
Build It But They May Not Come: Subjective Factors In Participation Decisions Among Under-Represented Groups, Ralf St. Clair
Adult Education Research Conference
This discussion presents a model for thinking about participation in learning for under-represented groups. The model is designed specifically to be useful for thinking about this question in the context of policymaking rather than a re-theorization of participation itself.
Destabilizing The Center, Disrupting The Flow: Culture, Mobility, And Learning In The Construction Of Female Identity, Barbara Sparks
Destabilizing The Center, Disrupting The Flow: Culture, Mobility, And Learning In The Construction Of Female Identity, Barbara Sparks
Adult Education Research Conference
This study looked at how women experience the destabilizing effects of change when the flow of their lives is disrupted, either intentionally or unintentionally? The life histories of four women reveal themes of opportunities for re-forming identities, cultural aspects of the self which create meaning for the self and one’s place in the world, and historical factors and positioning within temporal parameters.
A Cross-Case Analysis Of How Faculty Connect Learning In Hybrid Courses, Karen Skibba
A Cross-Case Analysis Of How Faculty Connect Learning In Hybrid Courses, Karen Skibba
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative, multiple case study analysis found that faculty use hybrid courses to facilitate learning by creating a continuous learning loop between the in-person and online environments. Connecting learning in both environments helps students acquire and integrate new knowledge, extend and refine knowledge, and use knowledge meaningfully.
Adult Education Enters The Cultural Competency Craze, Michael L. Rowland
Adult Education Enters The Cultural Competency Craze, Michael L. Rowland
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This paper will provide a brief overview of the literature on cultural competency as it relates to health care. Cultural competency is a strategy to reduce and eliminate inequities in health care that are related to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexual orientation. The paper will provide a framework for health profession educators to understand cultural competency through the lens of adult education.
Learning About Race And Ethnic Diversity On Campus: Employee Perceptions From An Urban University, Larry G. Martin
Learning About Race And Ethnic Diversity On Campus: Employee Perceptions From An Urban University, Larry G. Martin
Adult Education Research Conference
The research project utilized a mixed method design to investigate the extent to which a large (i.e., 26,000 students) urban university has provided an accepting and accommodating environment for individuals from various racial and ethnic backgrounds; and to identify the race and ethnic diversity-related issues and concerns that currently exist among university employees.
(Re)Situating Cognition: Expanding Sociocultural Perspectives In Adult Education, Kim L. Niewolny, Arthur L. Wilson
(Re)Situating Cognition: Expanding Sociocultural Perspectives In Adult Education, Kim L. Niewolny, Arthur L. Wilson
Adult Education Research Conference
We review key sociocultural perspectives of learning and cognition to begin to “make good” on the promise of situated cognition in adult education by incorporating its too-often ignored political analysis.
Challenges, Choices And Change: Towards A Theoretical Model Of African Diasporan Women’S Educational Decision Making, Carmela R. Nanton
Challenges, Choices And Change: Towards A Theoretical Model Of African Diasporan Women’S Educational Decision Making, Carmela R. Nanton
Adult Education Research Conference
The decision to participate in adult learning programs is often triggered by life-challenges. The choice for this diverse sample of African diasporan women was adult learning. Components of the decision process, the relationship to ego development level, and resulting changes are examined and a proposed theoretical model is discussed.
Working Late: Exploring The Workplaces, Motivations, And Barriers Of Working Seniors, Vivian W. Mott Ph.D.
Working Late: Exploring The Workplaces, Motivations, And Barriers Of Working Seniors, Vivian W. Mott Ph.D.
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This phenomenological research explored the nature of seniors’ employment. Findings focused on seniors’ motivations for continuing employment, barriers and coping mechanisms, generational differences, the role of self-directed learning, and the effect of age, status, and experience on security and capital in the workplace.
Learning Space And Space For Learning: Adults’ Intersubjective Experiences Of Improvisation, Pamela Meyer
Learning Space And Space For Learning: Adults’ Intersubjective Experiences Of Improvisation, Pamela Meyer
Adult Education Research Conference
This phenomenological study asked the question, “What do adults experience learning improvisation?” The findings highlight the intersubjective, whole-person nature of learning and transformation, and of the learning space.
Queer Race Pedagogy In Adult Higher Education: Dealing With Power Dynamics And Positionality Of Gay Students Of Color, Mitsunori Misawa
Queer Race Pedagogy In Adult Higher Education: Dealing With Power Dynamics And Positionality Of Gay Students Of Color, Mitsunori Misawa
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper presents a theoretical concept of the intersection of race and sexual orientation and to describe Queer Race Pedagogy (QRP) in adult higher education. This paper provides an overview of racism and heterosexism in adult higher education and the two theories that are utilized to develop QRP.
Migrant Workers, Grassroots Transnationalism, And Agency In Learning, Romee Lee
Migrant Workers, Grassroots Transnationalism, And Agency In Learning, Romee Lee
Adult Education Research Conference
A new approach to the lifelong learning paradigm is required to include transnational learners. This research shows that migrant workers, who by definition belong to multiple communities, seek learning experiences to sustain and enhance capabilities as contemporary workers. This is the case for why global non-elites form transnational agency with learning priorities.
Mujeres En Acción—Women In Action: Race, Gender And Economic Self-Sufficiency In A Worker-Owned Housecleaning Cooperative, Luis Kong
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper investigates the experiences of Spanish-speaking Latina immigrants within a worker-owned housecleaning cooperative. Their learning challenges with language, gender, race and class issues in the process of organizing and managing their cooperative business is discussed from a feminist, learning perspective, popular education and community development approaches within immigrant populations.
Being Invisible And A Minority: Adult Undergraduates In The University Classroom, Carol Kasworm Dr.
Being Invisible And A Minority: Adult Undergraduates In The University Classroom, Carol Kasworm Dr.
Adult Education Research Conference
This study explored the social constructed understandings and meanings of student identity for undergraduate adults situated in research universities. Key findings suggested negotiated beliefs and actions within positional and a relational frames of being a minority in number and invisible in a culture focused on young adults.
From Student Activism To A Way Of Life: The Student Activists-Turned-Peasant Activists In South Korea, Sik Son
Adult Education Research Conference
this paper explores the life-experience of six student activists who turned themselves into peasants in their search for social justice and egalitarian society in South Korea. The praxis of the activists crossing class line in the social movement reveals their transformative learning process as well as the development of their own pedagogy of the oppressed.
The Savior Image In Online Collaborative Learning: How Adult Learning Groups Manage Age-Related Difference, Regina O. Smith, John M. Dirkx
The Savior Image In Online Collaborative Learning: How Adult Learning Groups Manage Age-Related Difference, Regina O. Smith, John M. Dirkx
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative cross-case study examines how age-related differences are manifest and managed within online groups of adult learners. The findings suggest lack of traditional instruction in the PBL groups created a vacuum of authority, which they were unable to satisfactorily resolve.
Theorizing The Body: Developing A Framework For Understanding The Body In Online Learning Environments, Jennifer H. Kelland
Theorizing The Body: Developing A Framework For Understanding The Body In Online Learning Environments, Jennifer H. Kelland
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines how five elements of the body (physical, personal, political, knowledgeable and expressive) have been understood in face-to-face learning contexts and how they could be examined in online learning contexts to create inclusive learning environments.
Crossing Over, Moving Over: Personal Narratives Of Caribbean Adult College Women’S Struggles And Strategies, Gwendoline Regina James
Crossing Over, Moving Over: Personal Narratives Of Caribbean Adult College Women’S Struggles And Strategies, Gwendoline Regina James
Adult Education Research Conference
This research study documented the personal narratives of Caribbean immigrant college women’s struggles and strategies as they adjusted to life in the United States. The main purpose of the study was to examine the extent to which the concurrent work, family and community settings impact their personal and cognitive development.
Rooted In The Soil: The Social Experiences Of Black Graduate Students At A Southern Research University, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Thomas Valentine, Ronald M. Cervero, Tuere A. Bowle
Rooted In The Soil: The Social Experiences Of Black Graduate Students At A Southern Research University, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Thomas Valentine, Ronald M. Cervero, Tuere A. Bowle
Adult Education Research Conference
The experiences of Black graduate alumni, 1962-2003, at a major Southern Research University were examined in a comprehensive survey. The areas explored were: relationships with faculty, students, and the institution.
Towards A New Model Of Work Based Learning In Health And Social Care, Pamela M. Irwin
Towards A New Model Of Work Based Learning In Health And Social Care, Pamela M. Irwin
Adult Education Research Conference
Wenger’s (1998) conception of social participation as a process of learning is the most difficult, yet essential, characteristic of health related work based learning programmes to capture. Informed by a socio-cultural perspective, this integrative model of work based learning applies to any participant at any level in any work context.
Who Can Speak For Whom? Using Counter-Storytelling To Challenge Racial Hegemony, Lisa R. Merriweather Hunn, Talmadge C. Guy, Elaine Mangliitz
Who Can Speak For Whom? Using Counter-Storytelling To Challenge Racial Hegemony, Lisa R. Merriweather Hunn, Talmadge C. Guy, Elaine Mangliitz
Adult Education Research Conference
Dialogues of socially significant forms of human difference such as race are constrained by hegemony. Critical Race Theory’s counter-storytelling is explored as a means of challenging the majoritarian stories that reinforce racial hegemony in the dominant discourse.
The Impact Of Culture And Race On Environmental Worldviews: A Study From The Southeastern U.S., Robert J. Hill
The Impact Of Culture And Race On Environmental Worldviews: A Study From The Southeastern U.S., Robert J. Hill
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative study investigated the influences of race and culture on environmental worldviews of adult educator/activists in the southeastern U.S. It explored the roles of specific cultural practices and race relations which have been—and continue to be—significant factors affecting agency for environmental social transformation.
The Suitability Of Patient Education Materials For Poor And Underserved Populations In A Large Metropolitan Area, Lilian H. Hill, Sara Macdermod, Kara Lesueur
The Suitability Of Patient Education Materials For Poor And Underserved Populations In A Large Metropolitan Area, Lilian H. Hill, Sara Macdermod, Kara Lesueur
Adult Education Research Conference
This study analyzed patient education materials provided to poor and underserved patients treated by safety-net providers. A content analysis was conducted to evaluate the materials’ formatting and written style, readability, pictorial content, source, and cultural appropriateness.
The Politics And Economics Of Globalization And Social Change In Radical Adult Education: A Critical Review Of Recent Literature, John D. Holst
The Politics And Economics Of Globalization And Social Change In Radical Adult Education: A Critical Review Of Recent Literature, John D. Holst
Adult Education Research Conference
This review analyzes perspectives on globalization within radical adult education focusing on how perspectives of the globalization process affect people’s understanding of the nature and agents of social change. It argues that new movements move us beyond the limits in current globalization perspectives.
The Role Of Learning Experiences In The Development Of Expertise, Robin S. Grenier
The Role Of Learning Experiences In The Development Of Expertise, Robin S. Grenier
Adult Education Research Conference
This study examined the types of learning experiences leading to the development of expertise. A qualitative research approach was employed with twelve participants from a purposeful sampling of four historically themed museums. Analysis revealed learning experiences leading to expertise development included formal training and continuing education and informal and incidental learning.
Creating A Blueprint For A Critical Social Pedagogy Of Learning For Life And Work: Canadian Perspectives, André P. Grace
Creating A Blueprint For A Critical Social Pedagogy Of Learning For Life And Work: Canadian Perspectives, André P. Grace
Adult Education Research Conference
In Canada, current federal learning-and-work policy is focused on individual learner-worker development using an iteration of lifelong learning as cyclical. Increasing numbers of disenfranchised young adults are resisting participation in such learning. In this regard, I consider the predicament of young adults in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. To help us think about adequately addressing the dislocation they experience in life and work, I offer a Freire-informed vision of a critical social pedagogy of learning and work.
Situated Learning In Virtual Worlds: The Learning Ecology Of Second Life, Elisabeth R. Hayes
Situated Learning In Virtual Worlds: The Learning Ecology Of Second Life, Elisabeth R. Hayes
Adult Education Research Conference
This research investigated the “learning ecology” of the virtual world, Second Life. Study goals were to: (a) determine how the design and social dynamics of one virtual world support as well as constrain various types of learning, and (b) suggest implications for the use of virtual worlds in adult education.
Reorienting To Expectations Of Change, Elizabeth Grigoriu
Reorienting To Expectations Of Change, Elizabeth Grigoriu
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explains implicit and explicit theoretical assumptions of change and an emerging reorientation to expectations of change by using activity and meaning making theory to uncover a more expanded, integrated understanding of our expectations of change. The purpose of this reorganization is to better navigate social interactions as practitioner theorists.
Navigating The Cultural Maze In Program Planning For A Transnational Collaborative Initiative, Mazalan B. Kamis, Rosemary S. Caffarella, Mazanah Muhamad, Othman Omat
Navigating The Cultural Maze In Program Planning For A Transnational Collaborative Initiative, Mazalan B. Kamis, Rosemary S. Caffarella, Mazanah Muhamad, Othman Omat
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this paper is to explore, through autobiographical narratives of each of the authors, the story of how this planning team navigated the cultural complexities in planning a transnational collaborative program involving two sites, one in the United States and another in Malaysia. More specifically, examples of specific ways of thinking and actions are provided that illustrate planning practices as related to five significant aspects of Malaysian culture