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The Wichita Teacher Inquiry Group (Wtig) Lessening Structural, Cultural, Indirect And Direct Forms Of Through Cultural Competence And Transformative Teaching And Learning, Linda F. Rhone, Kimberly Johnson Burkhalter
The Wichita Teacher Inquiry Group (Wtig) Lessening Structural, Cultural, Indirect And Direct Forms Of Through Cultural Competence And Transformative Teaching And Learning, Linda F. Rhone, Kimberly Johnson Burkhalter
The Advocate
Bullying at school is an international phenomenon, and as a result there is a need for teachers to understand bullying behavior at its roots and beyond direct (hitting, kicking, choking) and indirect (gossiping, cyberbullying, silencing one’s voice) forms. If we are really going to lessen bullying at school overtime, we must talk about the unmentionable: Bullying at school is larger than one child pushing, hitting or kicking another. Literature suggests it is quite disappointing that to date there has been no significant impact on bullying at school in the United States (Juvonen, Graham, & Schuster, 2003; Berger, 2007). Literature also …
Beyond Busses, Balls, And Beans: An Examination Of The Leadership Skills Of Kansas Principals, Carolyn L. Carlson
Beyond Busses, Balls, And Beans: An Examination Of The Leadership Skills Of Kansas Principals, Carolyn L. Carlson
The Advocate
Introduction: Each year in American public schools, nearly 450,000 teachers leave their jobs (Johnson, Berg, & Donaldson, 2005). This means that one-sixth of all teachers either transfer to different schools/districts or leave the teaching profession altogether.
Where Are All The Women? Gender Bias Persists In Social Studies Texts, Tim Fry, Brenna S. Hofelt
Where Are All The Women? Gender Bias Persists In Social Studies Texts, Tim Fry, Brenna S. Hofelt
The Advocate
Introduction: Creating an inclusive and a more equitable classroom is a goal that all educators should continually strive for. One area of concern is that many girls and young women do not see themselves in curriculum materials - especially in the social studies.
Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 40, No. 1, Fall 2012, David C. Thompson
Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 40, No. 1, Fall 2012, David C. Thompson
Educational Considerations
Table of contents and editorial information for Educational Considerations, vol. 40(1), Fall 2012
Editors' Note, David C. Thompson, Faith E. Crampton
Editors' Note, David C. Thompson, Faith E. Crampton
Educational Considerations
In this issue of Educational Considerations, we are pleased to offer readers extended, in-depth discussions of two critical issues for educational leaders and policymakers: Cost-effective factors that have the potential to improve student achievement and effective preparation programs for education leaders.
A Theory Of School Achievement: A Quantum View, James L. Phelps
A Theory Of School Achievement: A Quantum View, James L. Phelps
Educational Considerations
What is reality? In order to make predictions, all concepts in a scientific study and subsequent theory must be accurately represented by mathematical principles, and those concepts and principles must embody reality.
Table Of Contents And Introductory Materials For Vol. 20, No. 2, 2012, Bruce Quantic
Table Of Contents And Introductory Materials For Vol. 20, No. 2, 2012, Bruce Quantic
The Advocate
This content includes the table of contents and editorial information for vol.20, issue 2 (Fall, 2012)
Alien Education, Jennifer Cady
Alien Education, Jennifer Cady
The Advocate
Introduction: Stepping into the classroom now-a-days is like walking through Times Square. Students come equipped with vast levels of knowledge just like the diverse individuals navigating the streets in the heart of New York City.
Developing Cultural Competence Through Problem Posing And Multicultural Children's Literature, Gayla Lohfink, Laurie Curtis
Developing Cultural Competence Through Problem Posing And Multicultural Children's Literature, Gayla Lohfink, Laurie Curtis
The Advocate
Increasing diversity in Kansas elementary schools is challenging educators to teach culturally and linguistically diverse students effectively. Unfortunately, research shows teachers as lacking in necessary cultural competencies. This article shares a multicultural picture book action-research project and shows how pre-service teachers constructed pedagogy by selecting literature that drew upon their students’ funds of knowledge. Implementation of the same project in practicing teachers’ classrooms revealed their self-reflections of students’ cultural connections frequently, but more often, the teachers’ reflections focused on students’ connections to the curriculum. This observation prompted an alternative problem-posing approach for utilizing multicultural literature to be presented for teachers. …
Doctoral Programs In Educational Leadership: A Duality Framework Of Commonality And Differences, Perry A. Zirkel
Doctoral Programs In Educational Leadership: A Duality Framework Of Commonality And Differences, Perry A. Zirkel
Educational Considerations
In recent years, doctoral programs in education leadership have been subject to notable criticism and proposals for reform.
Educational Considerations, Vol. 40(1) Full Issue, David C. Thompson
Educational Considerations, Vol. 40(1) Full Issue, David C. Thompson
Educational Considerations
Educational Considerations, vol. 40(1)-Fall 2012-Full issue
Agricultural Extension And Market-Led Agrarian Reform: Findings From An Exploratory Case Study In Limpopo Province, South Africa, Daniel Tobin, Thomas Bruening, Mark Brennan, Brad Olson
Agricultural Extension And Market-Led Agrarian Reform: Findings From An Exploratory Case Study In Limpopo Province, South Africa, Daniel Tobin, Thomas Bruening, Mark Brennan, Brad Olson
Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education
n 1994, as South Africa was transitioning out of the apartheid era, the new, democratically elected government was forced to confront a largely polarized agricultural sector. Colonial rule and apartheid policies had systematically dispossessed the African majority from land. At the end of apartheid, the white minority, comprising less than 10% of the population, controlled 87% of total agricultural land. To confront the harsh realities of food insecurity and poverty, South Africa’s post-apartheid democracy implemented land and agrarian reform policies. The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences and perceptions regarding these policies of emerging black farmers and …
Value Of Education As Perceived By Mexican Immigrants And Caucasian American Citizens Employed In Agriculture In Louisiana, Richard Johnson, Joe Kotrlik
Value Of Education As Perceived By Mexican Immigrants And Caucasian American Citizens Employed In Agriculture In Louisiana, Richard Johnson, Joe Kotrlik
Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education
Agriculture operations benefit from the employment of Mexican immigrants through government programs that supply workers to the industry. Therefore, many crawfish farm operations in Louisiana employ both U.S. citizen and Mexican immigrant labor to operate efficiently. The purpose of this study was to compare selected characteristics of farm workers as well as to explore values related to education, as sorted by citizenship and ethnicity. The results of this study indicated significant differences in Mexican immigrant and Caucasian U.S. citizen crawfish farmers’ educational backgrounds and demographic characteristics, while finding that both groups held similar values about education. In general, the Mexican …
Understanding Afghan Opinion Leaders’ Viewpoints About Post-Conflict Foreign Agricultural Development: A Case Study In Herāt Province, Afghanistan, Glen C. Shinn, Richard K. Ford, Rahmat Attaie, Gary E. Briers
Understanding Afghan Opinion Leaders’ Viewpoints About Post-Conflict Foreign Agricultural Development: A Case Study In Herāt Province, Afghanistan, Glen C. Shinn, Richard K. Ford, Rahmat Attaie, Gary E. Briers
Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education
This investigation sprang from a yearlong immersion in post-conflict agricultural development environments in Herāt Province Afghanistan and from observing an array of NGO development projects. The purpose was to understand better the viewpoints of Afghan opinion leaders regarding the adoption–integration of foreign agricultural development. Objectives included (a) the identification of perceived strengths of foreign agricultural development, (b) perceived weaknesses, (c) opportunities, (d) threats, (e) anomalies, and (f)incentives and barriers. The case method fit the qualitative research design, and IRB approved the protocols. Researchers selected 15 opinion leaders (OLs) based on their knowledge, experience, and positional responsibilities. An interview guide framed …
Class Dismissed: Exploring The Semiotic Niche Of Academicians With Working Class Roots, Robin Redmon Wright
Class Dismissed: Exploring The Semiotic Niche Of Academicians With Working Class Roots, Robin Redmon Wright
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper is one part of a larger study of scholars with working-class backgrounds. The purpose was to find factors in their working-class upbringing that led to their pursuit of a doctorate and life in the academy. In this section, I use symbolic conversion theory and biosemiotics to in the analysis and discussion of two major threads running through the study: the role of parochial education and an early passion for reading. Keywords: class, social justice, biosemiotics, symbolic convergence, higher education, embodied.
Violent Transformations: Can Adult Learning Theory Help Explain Radicalization, Political Violence, And Terrorism?, Alex S. Wilner, Claire-Jehanne Dubouloz
Violent Transformations: Can Adult Learning Theory Help Explain Radicalization, Political Violence, And Terrorism?, Alex S. Wilner, Claire-Jehanne Dubouloz
Adult Education Research Conference
Learning to be Violent? Adult education is imbued with positive thinking and subjective goals. Social, economic, and political emancipation and value-based shifts in attitudes are its theoretical and practical cornerstones. This is particularly evident in Stephen Brookfield and John Holst‘s Radicalizing Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2011). ―For us,‖ they write, ―adult learning is inextricably tied to creating and extending political and economic democracy – to equalizing democratic control of and access to wealth, education, health care, and creative work, and to promoting collective … forms of decision-making and labor‖ (xii). Adult education‘s ―traditional concern‖ is to create ―critical thinkers‖ able to counter …
Authenticity In The Classroom: A Qualitative Study Of Lesbian Health Educators, Rebecca A. Weiler-Timmins
Authenticity In The Classroom: A Qualitative Study Of Lesbian Health Educators, Rebecca A. Weiler-Timmins
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper discusses the findings of a qualitative study which implemented a narrative inquiry approach to explore how lesbian health educators navigate authenticity in a heteronormative higher education setting.
Testing A Theory Of Change Model For Evaluating The Impact Of Action Learning Programs, Karen E. Watkins, Aliki Nicolaides
Testing A Theory Of Change Model For Evaluating The Impact Of Action Learning Programs, Karen E. Watkins, Aliki Nicolaides
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper reports findings from an evaluation of an executive leadership development program in a large global healthcare organization. The paper offers a rethinking of evaluation from a transfer of learning model to a more open-ended, developmental approach based on a theory of change when learning is action-oriented, emergent, informal and incidental. Included in this paper are data from the evaluation illustrating learning increases in individual, group and system capacities to effectively engage with the demands placed on leaders and organizations in a complex, global context.
Non-Western Teaching And Learning Processes: Adult Education Among Women Artists Of Kenya‟S Luo Community., Akinyi Wadende
Non-Western Teaching And Learning Processes: Adult Education Among Women Artists Of Kenya‟S Luo Community., Akinyi Wadende
Adult Education Research Conference
The world over, educators are increasingly expected to serve learners with multiple differentiating conditions, functions of among other things, cultural orientations, modern times, and trends. Additionally, there is increased information exchange in the world due to population migration and the ever increasing access to internet services for hitherto inaccessible Geographical regions and related populations. Internet access has allowed online class attendance and brought needed educational services to learners irrespective of their physical locations around the world. All the above dynamics increase college students‘ diversity when added to the current economic recession felt in the world and which has seen many …
Constructing Latino Cultural Citizenship In The Ged Classroom: Mexican Migrant Students Claim Their Right To An Education, Lucy Guevara Velez
Constructing Latino Cultural Citizenship In The Ged Classroom: Mexican Migrant Students Claim Their Right To An Education, Lucy Guevara Velez
Adult Education Research Conference
According to the GED (General Educational Development) Testing Service, 452,000 individuals earned a GED certificate in 2010 in the United States. Texas, California, Florida, and New York show the highest testing volumes. In Texas, the ethnic distribution of GED passers is the following: Hispanics (44 percent), Whites (39.5 percent), and African Americans (14 percent). Although the average age of the GED tester is 26.8, the 16-18 and 19-24 year olds are the largest age groups served in Texas. This paper examines the value of the GED credential for a group often not studied: Mexican migrants who dropped out of high …
The Role Of Digital Story Telling (About Spirituality And Cultural Identity) In Instrumental, Communicative, And Emancipatory Learning, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Gregory Carrow-Boyd, Shivaani Selvaraj, Janelle Heiseman
The Role Of Digital Story Telling (About Spirituality And Cultural Identity) In Instrumental, Communicative, And Emancipatory Learning, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Gregory Carrow-Boyd, Shivaani Selvaraj, Janelle Heiseman
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper discusses the role of instrumental, communicative, and emancipatory learning through digital storytelling in a class that deals with spirituality and culture in the health and education professions in an adult higher education setting, and explores its theoretical and practical implications. Keywords: digital storytelling, emancipatory learning, spirituality and culture
A Content Analysis Of Transformative Learning Theory, Edward W. Taylor, Patricia Cranton
A Content Analysis Of Transformative Learning Theory, Edward W. Taylor, Patricia Cranton
Adult Education Research Conference
For over a couple of years an edited handbook of transformative learning theory (TL), inclusive of an array of well-known scholars, has been under development (Taylor & Cranton, 2012). Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive and critical review of more than three decades of theory development, research, and practice in TL. In addition, it is an effort to promote the study of TL and prevent a reification of the theory, whereby its basic premises about learning have often become unquestioned in adult and higher education. The Handbook had four primary focuses: a) an historical/interdisciplinary development of the field, b) …
How Adult Esl Students Perceive Prior-Experience-Based Instruction, Fujuan Tann, Lee Nabb
How Adult Esl Students Perceive Prior-Experience-Based Instruction, Fujuan Tann, Lee Nabb
Adult Education Research Conference
Experience-based education arguably has been widely venerated by adult educators in the United States for several decades (Lindeman, 1926; Dewey, 1938; Knowles, 1970; Kolb, 1984; Mezirow, 1991). Incorporating students‘ prior experience into the learning experience is commonly practiced in this country, and evidence suggests that adult students favor such instructional strategies (Andresen, Boud, & Cohen, 2000; Wlodkowski, 1999, 2004; Vella, 2002). Moreover, globalization as well as ever increasing immigration and international student populations continue to change the composition of adult learners (Institute of International Education, 2011a, 2011b; U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). The U.S. Census Bureau (2010) reported that about 12% …
Wisdom, Complexity, And Adult Education: Emerging Theory And Meanings For Practice, Ann L. Swartz, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Wisdom, Complexity, And Adult Education: Emerging Theory And Meanings For Practice, Ann L. Swartz, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper discusses various conceptions of wisdom in order to foster theory development of what it means to access and act with wisdom, as well as to educate adults in a way that fosters wisdom in a complex world. Keywords: wisdom, complexity science, and spirituality.
The Impact Of A Ged To College Transitions Program On Student Motivation, Donald Stoddart, Mattyna L. Stephens, Michelle Johnson, Debbie Lechuga
The Impact Of A Ged To College Transitions Program On Student Motivation, Donald Stoddart, Mattyna L. Stephens, Michelle Johnson, Debbie Lechuga
Adult Education Research Conference
Student‘s motivation and persistence are common issues that educators and learners struggle with continuously. This is particularly significant in the field of adult education. According to Hardin (2008) these adult learners, or non-traditional students exhibit characteristics such as; delaying enrollment into higher education until adulthood, enrolling part time, working full time, being financially independent, has family responsibilities and academic deficiencies. Such characteristics can form severe barriers in the quest to pursue higher education. Therefore, understanding self-determination and motivation are necessary to help these learners to be successful. To help students to be successful, scholars and practitioners must engage in longitudinal …
Reconnecting With Your Passion: An Action Research Study Exploring Humanities And Professional Nursing, Melissa J. Snyder
Reconnecting With Your Passion: An Action Research Study Exploring Humanities And Professional Nursing, Melissa J. Snyder
Adult Education Research Conference
The purposes of this study are to examine the process of how nurses engage in a professional development program that draws on reading and creative narrative writing related to their professional values and ideals and to examine the nurses‘ perspectives on how their involvement in the process and program relates to changes in their professional roles.
The Disjuncture Of Learning And Recognition: Licensure-Related Credential Assessment From The Standpoint Of Chinese Immigrant Engineers In Canada, Hongxia Shan
Adult Education Research Conference
Non/recognition of foreign credentials has been criticized for obstructing skilled immigrants from succeeding in the Canadian labour market. Despite the criticisms, rarely is empirical investigation conducted to pin down the gaps and contradictions in specific assessment mechanisms. This paper is an effort to this end. Drawing on an institutional ethnographic study of the credential assessment practices in the engineering profession, the study problematizes the redundant and ad hoc assessment procedures, licensure bodies‘ narrow focus on applicants‘ undergraduate education, and their deficit approach to training from other countries.
A New Normal: Young Men Of Color, Trauma And Engagement In Learning, Joni M. Schwartz
A New Normal: Young Men Of Color, Trauma And Engagement In Learning, Joni M. Schwartz
Adult Education Research Conference
This phenomenological study examined trauma experienced by young men of color, trauma‘s effect on engagement in college, and the young men‘s willingness to access counseling. The theoretical and methodological frameworks are Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) respectively. The findings from the study presented in this paper suggest that young men have a ―lived experience‖ of trauma that they perceive as normal which impacts their engagement in learning.
Job Training And The Skills Debate: A Road To Nowhere?, Fred M. Schied, Keon Skelton
Job Training And The Skills Debate: A Road To Nowhere?, Fred M. Schied, Keon Skelton
Adult Education Research Conference
Training programs have been largely unsuccessful in providing jobs for the unemployed or those employed in low-level jobs. Yet public support for these programs has remained high. This seeming contradiction is explored by reviewing evidence suggesting that what has been created are not policies to train people for jobs, but a thriving ―training industry‖ that only marginally assists individuals in finding employment or in developing skills that allow for career advancement.
Funding Innovative Programs For Adults: Searching For Policy On The Improvement Of Higher Education, Amy D. Rose, Bridget D. Stuckey
Funding Innovative Programs For Adults: Searching For Policy On The Improvement Of Higher Education, Amy D. Rose, Bridget D. Stuckey
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines the history of funding policies and grants from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE). It examines these policies in light of the changing and ephemeral sense of purpose of adult education.