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Twenty-First Century Community Education: Using Web-Based Tools To Build On Horton’S Legacy, Joyce S. Mcknight May 2009

Twenty-First Century Community Education: Using Web-Based Tools To Build On Horton’S Legacy, Joyce S. Mcknight

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This qualitative, participatory paper focuses on the use of participatory research to facilitate the teaching/learning experience in a formal online academic environment while enabling positive social action in two very real target communities.

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White Racial Identity Development Model For Adult Educators, Carole L. Lund May 2009

White Racial Identity Development Model For Adult Educators, Carole L. Lund

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The white racial identity development model has implications for educators wishing to address racism. There are six pathways an adult educator might explore to understand where they are in the white racial identity development process—status quo to ally.

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Teaching For Transformation: Structured Cross-Cultural Experience In Transnational Contexts, Ming-Yeh Lee, David Hemphill, Jacob Perea May 2009

Teaching For Transformation: Structured Cross-Cultural Experience In Transnational Contexts, Ming-Yeh Lee, David Hemphill, Jacob Perea

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The purpose of the study was to explore transformational learning in the context of cross-cultural, transnational study. In particular, it explored the ways in which a short-term study abroad program facilitated transformational learning opportunities for its adult participants. Data were collected through narrative surveys, students’ research projects, and researchers’ field notes to investigate promising program components and strategies.

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Critical Reflection In Workplace: Using Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (Chat) To Theorize Factory Workers’ Continuous Learning, Kyoung Hwa Lee May 2009

Critical Reflection In Workplace: Using Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (Chat) To Theorize Factory Workers’ Continuous Learning, Kyoung Hwa Lee

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This study investigated workers’ critical reflection on the shop floor through analyzing The Toyota Way (Liker, 2004) from the perspective of adult education using Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) as a theoretical framework.

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Building Communities Into Lifelong Learning Cities: The Case Of The Republic Of Korea, In Tak Kwon, Fred M. Schied May 2009

Building Communities Into Lifelong Learning Cities: The Case Of The Republic Of Korea, In Tak Kwon, Fred M. Schied

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The purpose of this paper was to explore the implications and strategies for building Lifelong Learning Cities in Korea by 1) examining the rationale behind the movement; 2) reviewing the results and accomplishments; and 3) drawing lessons for constructing Lifelong Learning Cities in other parts of the globe.

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Wangari Maathai: Righteous Leader Of Environmental And Social Change, Jennifer L. Kushner May 2009

Wangari Maathai: Righteous Leader Of Environmental And Social Change, Jennifer L. Kushner

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This Africentric historical inquiry introduces Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, as a visionary adult educator and leader of the liberatory environmental movement known as The Green Belt Movement. The study describes Maathai’s philosophy and how it informed her leadership of adult education for environmental, political, and social change.

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Moving Without Moving: An Exploration Of Somatic Learning As A Transformative Process In Adult Education, Luis Kong May 2009

Moving Without Moving: An Exploration Of Somatic Learning As A Transformative Process In Adult Education, Luis Kong

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This study explores the impact of body movement and vocalization as a transformative and creative somatic learning process. It investigates the ways Shintaido, an expressive combination of martial arts and moving meditation, is transferred by adult martial arts practitioners into their everyday life experiences.

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Learning And Adaptation Of Contingent Workers In South Korea Corporations: A Study Of Developmental Relationships, Jung-Hwan Kim May 2009

Learning And Adaptation Of Contingent Workers In South Korea Corporations: A Study Of Developmental Relationships, Jung-Hwan Kim

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Developmental relationships have been considered an important factor for leaning and adaptation of workers. This paper aims to discover how the learning and adaptation of contingent workers differ from those of regular workers and focuses on developmental relationships in South Korea corporations.

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The Critical Incident Questionnaire (Ciq): From Research To Practice And Back Again, Jeffrey M. Keefer May 2009

The Critical Incident Questionnaire (Ciq): From Research To Practice And Back Again, Jeffrey M. Keefer

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This paper reviews ways the Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ) has been used, adapted, and developed over four years of near continual organizational and academic use. It explores how the tool is implemented, the issues that led to its adaptation, and the current working version. Future research areas are also suggested.

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Academic Classrooms And Careers Defined By Race And Gender, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Ronald M. Cervero May 2009

Academic Classrooms And Careers Defined By Race And Gender, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Ronald M. Cervero

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The collective classroom and career experiences of a Black woman and White male professor are examined of the last twenty years are examined. It is revealed, that despite the presence of diversity classes and increases in diversity, as regards student and faculty presence, the circumstances of the faculty in this critical examination were defined by the student, faculty, and institutional reactions to their postionalities. Predictably, the White male faculty member had the more positive experiences, while the Black woman’s circumstances were more negative.

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A Case Study Of National Financial Literacy Programs For Women, Jodi Jarecke, Edward W. Taylor, Tahira Hira May 2009

A Case Study Of National Financial Literacy Programs For Women, Jodi Jarecke, Edward W. Taylor, Tahira Hira

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The purpose of this research study is to explore (case study) in-depth the pedagogy of financial literacy programs for women and how these programs address their educational needs.

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Creating A Comprehensive Broad Based Curriculum Model For Adult And Alternative High School Education Based In The African Centered Paradigm, Nancy E. Jackson May 2009

Creating A Comprehensive Broad Based Curriculum Model For Adult And Alternative High School Education Based In The African Centered Paradigm, Nancy E. Jackson

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In this session we will explore the history of challenges to the African centered paradigm, and how to design a comprehensive curriculum model and lens for use with African American adult student’s ages 17 years old and up.

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Seeking Integration: Spirituality In The Context Of Lifelong Learning And Professional Reflective Practice, Cheryl Hunt May 2009

Seeking Integration: Spirituality In The Context Of Lifelong Learning And Professional Reflective Practice, Cheryl Hunt

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This paper links two models - one of orientations to reflective practice, the other of an holistic epistemology - with empirical evidence from seminars exploring spirituality as a dimension of lifelong learning. It highlights a need for better integration within adult education and other professions of spiritual knowledge and understanding.

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Conflict And Collaboration: Providers And Planners Implementing The Workforce Investment Act (Wia), John L. Hopkins, Catherine A. Hansman, Catherine H. Monaghan May 2009

Conflict And Collaboration: Providers And Planners Implementing The Workforce Investment Act (Wia), John L. Hopkins, Catherine A. Hansman, Catherine H. Monaghan

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This qualitative case study investigated the impact of WIA funding on the providers and planners of programs for incumbent workers in one Midwest WIA region, examining the collaboration and power conflicts that are part of planning and implementing this legislation. The study applied Matland’s (1995) ambiguity/conflict framework to WIA implementation.

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Program Planning Principles, Goals, And Evaluation Criteria In The Radical Adult Education Tradition, John D. Holst, Stephen D. Brookfield May 2009

Program Planning Principles, Goals, And Evaluation Criteria In The Radical Adult Education Tradition, John D. Holst, Stephen D. Brookfield

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The purpose of this paper is to present what we consider to be essential principles, goals, and evaluation criteria, for program planning in the radical adult education tradition. The paper is based on historical and philosophical inquiry into the pedagogical practices of numerous social movements and social movement organizations.

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Adult Education As Social Education Revisited: The Contribution Of John Ohliger, Andre P. Grace, Tonette S. Rocco May 2009

Adult Education As Social Education Revisited: The Contribution Of John Ohliger, Andre P. Grace, Tonette S. Rocco

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In this paperwe turn to the scholarship and grassroots educational, social, and cultural work of John Ohliger to suggest that his politics of adult education provide useful insights for revitalizing adult education in neoliberal times when lifelong learning is advanced as the more desirable commodity.

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Adult Learning For Active Citizenship: Exploring Learning Pathways Around Citizenship And Participation In Community Organizations And Governance, Patricia A. Gouthro May 2009

Adult Learning For Active Citizenship: Exploring Learning Pathways Around Citizenship And Participation In Community Organizations And Governance, Patricia A. Gouthro

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Understanding what motivates adult to engage in various learning endeavours across the lifespan often involves tracing multiple complicated and interconnected factors. Both formal and informal educational contexts determine how individuals will be politically involved through different stages in their lives. In a current study on lifelong learning, citizenship, and participation in community-based organizations in Canada, the possibilities and challenges of developing a more networked approach towards governance to support an active and engaged citizenry is explored. This study is funded by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) and builds on previously completed research around women’s lifelong learning trajectories in adult …

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Diversity And Ressentiment In Educating For Lgbtq-Friendly Changes In A University, Rod P. Githens May 2009

Diversity And Ressentiment In Educating For Lgbtq-Friendly Changes In A University, Rod P. Githens

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Within universities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals have used education to seek equitable policies and improve campus climates. In this project, I examine the approaches to diversity education by LGBTQ activists seeking domestic partner benefits within a major state university system.

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Liberatory Education: Unmasking Apartheids Pedagogical Plunder The South African Liberation Struggle (1912 – 1990), Mohammed A. Essack May 2009

Liberatory Education: Unmasking Apartheids Pedagogical Plunder The South African Liberation Struggle (1912 – 1990), Mohammed A. Essack

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This study creates the possibility of providing a template for an interactive and participatory resource where activists, scholars and the general populous can converge into a dialogue highlighting the role of ordinary citizens in the formulation and conception of their own history and how this historicity has informed the development and trajectory of the South African (and other) National Liberation Struggle/s.

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The Enactment Of Hegemony Through Identity Construction: Insights From Thepresentation Of Self In Everyday Life, Brendaly Drayton, Esther Prins May 2009

The Enactment Of Hegemony Through Identity Construction: Insights From Thepresentation Of Self In Everyday Life, Brendaly Drayton, Esther Prins

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This paper uses Goffman’s dramaturgical analysis to examine how hegemony maintains its power and influence in the life of the individual. The analysis reveals that the power of hegemony lies in the construction of particular identities that shape our interactions and limit our imagined futures.

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From Laborer To Learner: The Experiences Of Former Factory Workers In A Developmental Education Program, John M. Dirkx, Ngoc Lan Thi Dang May 2009

From Laborer To Learner: The Experiences Of Former Factory Workers In A Developmental Education Program, John M. Dirkx, Ngoc Lan Thi Dang

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This study reports on a qualitative, case study of a learning community approach to developmental education for dislocated workers. The findings suggest that participants rework a sense of themselves as learners, mediated by their experience of liminality and the emergence of communitas within the group.

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From Careers Adviser To Personal Adviser: Emotion, Ethics, Politics And Learning In A Disrupted Community Of Practice, Helen Colley May 2009

From Careers Adviser To Personal Adviser: Emotion, Ethics, Politics And Learning In A Disrupted Community Of Practice, Helen Colley

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This paper discusses recent policy reforms in career guidance for young people in England. It offers a case study of disruption to an established community of practice; presents evidence of its emotional, ethical and political effects; considers the implications for workplace learning and reconsiders theoretical conceptualisations of ‘communities of practice’.

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“You Realize That It’S Not Always As It Seems”: What Adults Learn About Management When Writing Their Own Management Cases, Rosemary B. Closson, Carmeda Stokes May 2009

“You Realize That It’S Not Always As It Seems”: What Adults Learn About Management When Writing Their Own Management Cases, Rosemary B. Closson, Carmeda Stokes

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The purpose of this study was to understand student’s perceived learning outcomes in a program management course employing the seldom used process of “learner case writing” as a teaching-learning technique.

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Patterns Of Knowledge Construction, Bo Chang May 2009

Patterns Of Knowledge Construction, Bo Chang

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Based on Berger & Luckmann’s (1967) social constructionism framework, the purpose of this study is to identify the knowledge construction patterns and the conditions for these patterns to occur in a learning community in Shanghai, China.

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The Higher Education Opportunity Act Of 2008: What Does It Mean To Learners Of Nontraditional Age Who Experience Intellectual Disability?, Kara Thrasher-Livingston May 2009

The Higher Education Opportunity Act Of 2008: What Does It Mean To Learners Of Nontraditional Age Who Experience Intellectual Disability?, Kara Thrasher-Livingston

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Analysis of discourse between the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 and related public commentary reveals assumptions about learners who experience intellectual disability who potentially engage with postsecondary education. What does it mean for the nontraditional age adult learner?

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“What Do Future Educational Leaders Know About Gender?”: A Feminist Content Analysis, Debora Nelli May 2009

“What Do Future Educational Leaders Know About Gender?”: A Feminist Content Analysis, Debora Nelli

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The educational access, opportunity and experience of students and educators in U.S. educational institutions is influenced and often limited by their gender. Gender discrimination impacts the academic, emotional, vocational and economic lives of both students and educators. The Glass Ceiling Commission sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor determined key factors in the amelioration of institutional gender discrimination were the beliefs, values and commitments of the institution’s leaders (U.S. Dept of Labor, 1995). The pivotal role educational leaders play in either reproducing or disrupting institutional gender inequity makes it essential to examine cultural artifacts for insights into the expressed and …

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Dewey And Habermas: Re-Reading Ethics For Adult Education, Davin Carr-Chellman May 2009

Dewey And Habermas: Re-Reading Ethics For Adult Education, Davin Carr-Chellman

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The relevance of Dewey and Habermas's ethics for adult education is grounded in epistemology and learning, in particular delineating the centrality of ethics -- normative conceptions of right and wrong -- to how we come to know and understand the world, generate meaning, and hence, learn.

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Experience, Learning, & Consciousness: Advancing A Feminist-Materialist Theory Of Adult Learning, Sara Carpenter May 2009

Experience, Learning, & Consciousness: Advancing A Feminist-Materialist Theory Of Adult Learning, Sara Carpenter

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This paper theorizes from the literature of feminism, sociology, historical materialism, and adult education to advance a feminist-materialist approach to the long-standing debates regarding individual and social dimensions of learning and the relationships between experience, learning, and consciousness.

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What I Do Matters, Too: Transformation And Success Of First-Generation Adult Women In Undergraduate Education, Sally J. Neal, Alexandra A. Bell May 2009

What I Do Matters, Too: Transformation And Success Of First-Generation Adult Women In Undergraduate Education, Sally J. Neal, Alexandra A. Bell

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Researchers qualitatively examined the experiences of first-generation adult women in a 4-year university, and found that participants (a) experienced enhanced academic self-efficacy through positive instructor feedback, (b) resolved the “dilemma of choice” regarding role expectations, and (c) developed a sense of responsibility for the academic status of the next generation.

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Global Corporate Executives’ Social Capital Formation Experiences, Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura May 2009

Global Corporate Executives’ Social Capital Formation Experiences, Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura

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There is growing interest in examining social capital and how it influences communities, organizations, and individuals. This research seeks to determine how social capital is developed among senior executives in a global organization.

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