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Race, Gender And Networks In Portfolio Work: Difficult Knowledge, Tara Fenwick, Kiran Mirchandani
Race, Gender And Networks In Portfolio Work: Difficult Knowledge, Tara Fenwick, Kiran Mirchandani
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper reports findings of our qualitative research exploring the multiple Ways in which race, gender and class processes impact on portfolio work, with particular attention to networking processes
Safe Injections Sites: Insurgent Architecture? Drug Use And Learning As Social Practice, Jean Flynn
Safe Injections Sites: Insurgent Architecture? Drug Use And Learning As Social Practice, Jean Flynn
Adult Education Research Conference
Within the context of a safe injection site, this paper will explore a social theory of learning that supports the importance of the everyday learning processes of people within communities of practice.
“The Continuous Restart”: Case Study On Young Adults In Societies In Fast Transition, António Fragoso, Emilio Lucio-Villegas
“The Continuous Restart”: Case Study On Young Adults In Societies In Fast Transition, António Fragoso, Emilio Lucio-Villegas
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In this paper we reflect upon the role of young adults in local development processes in social contexts characterised by strong transition trends. The analysis of two sequentially different generations gives us important elements to arrive at some conclusions about social change, according to the theoretical framework we use.
Not Str8: The Construction Of Queer Male Identity In Sydney, Australia, John P. Egan
Not Str8: The Construction Of Queer Male Identity In Sydney, Australia, John P. Egan
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This study examines the experiences of 14 queer young men in Sydney Australia. Using ethnographic methods, their stories are analyzed to delineate how their experiences “coming out” and coming into a queer male identity represents the acquisition and meaning-making of genuinely local, transgressive knowledges.
Feminine/Feminist: A Poststructural Reading Of Relational Learning In Women's Social Action Organizations, Leona M. English
Feminine/Feminist: A Poststructural Reading Of Relational Learning In Women's Social Action Organizations, Leona M. English
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This paper reports on research with 8 board members and 8 directors of women’s social action organizations. A poststructural reading of the data gives voice to an under theorized aspect of humanist relational learning in women’s organizations and makes visible the power-relationships. It explores women’s learned practices of resistance, and offers a paradoxical view of relational learning on social action that attends to the ethic of care as well as to power relations.
Notes From A Cuban Diary: Forty Women Speak On Forty Years, Joanne Elvy
Notes From A Cuban Diary: Forty Women Speak On Forty Years, Joanne Elvy
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Many consider the 1961 Literacy Campaign—Campaña de Alfabetización—to be the backdrop for social, economic, cultural and ethical transformations that occurred in Cuba following 1959. The Campaña marked a definitive moment of liberation for Cuban women, as more than half of the volunteers were those who left their family homes to live and work with the illiterate in the countryside. This research features photographic portraits of women who participated as literacy teachers, together with a series of reflective testimonies as textural components.
Thrown From The Train: Experiences That Contribute To The Spiritual Growth Of Males In Mid-Life, Dent C. Davis
Thrown From The Train: Experiences That Contribute To The Spiritual Growth Of Males In Mid-Life, Dent C. Davis
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This study of the spiritual experiences of an internationally and culturally diverse sample of eleven men identified a diverse expression of masculine spiritual experience involving transformations in awareness where the self moves from the role of subject to a growing sense of inter-subjectivity intimately related to the awareness of spirit.
Adults And Learning Disabilities: Moving Beyond The Limits Of Learning, Linda Eastwick Covington
Adults And Learning Disabilities: Moving Beyond The Limits Of Learning, Linda Eastwick Covington
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The heterogeneous nature of learning disabilities has led to confusion regarding their definition and their intervention. Although the law protects adults with learning disabilities both in the workplace and classroom, it provides only a broad definition that has been subject to many interpretations. There is a paucity of longitudinal research on learning disabilities, but one study indicates that they are ameliorated by certain protective factors. Cross-sectional research suggests that a wide variety of teaching techniques is necessary for classroom success. This research serves to inform adult educators of the dynamic concept of learning disabilities as well as effective classroom interventions.
Learning And Context: Connections In Teacher Professional Development, Barbara J. Daley
Learning And Context: Connections In Teacher Professional Development, Barbara J. Daley
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This qualitative interpretivist study analyzes the interrelationships between, the knowledge gained in teacher professional development programs and the context of employment. Findings indicate that teachers construct a knowledge base by moving back and forth between continuing education programs and their professional practice. Implications for research and practice are drawn.
Learning Experiences Of Adults Mentoring Socially Excluded Young People: Issues Of Power And Gender, Helen Colley
Learning Experiences Of Adults Mentoring Socially Excluded Young People: Issues Of Power And Gender, Helen Colley
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Adult educators have not as yet investigated the vast movement of adults who mentor socially excluded youth. But these mentors are adult learners too. Their experiences suggest that mentoring – in any context – may entail the ‘toxic’ learning of emotional labour. More attention should be paid to their training from a perspective of social justice.
Feminist Popular Education And Community Arts/Crafts: The Case For New Directions, Darlene E. Clover, Joyce Stalker, Laurie Mcgauley
Feminist Popular Education And Community Arts/Crafts: The Case For New Directions, Darlene E. Clover, Joyce Stalker, Laurie Mcgauley
Adult Education Research Conference
Through the lens of a feminist cultural organisation in Sudbury, Ontario, this paper extends the notion of feminist popular education by exploring the activist and aesthetic-pedagogical dimensions of women’s community arts/crafts practices.
Spirituality In Adult Education: From The Voices Of Educators And Learners, Bradley C. Courtenay, Judy Milton
Spirituality In Adult Education: From The Voices Of Educators And Learners, Bradley C. Courtenay, Judy Milton
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Three components of spirituality were identified by adult educators and learners: sense of connectedness, search for meaning, and awareness of a transcendent force. Integrating spirituality into practice focused on the belief that spirituality is present in each of us and adult education provides an opportunity to experience it.
Learning Power From The Margins: Analyzing Action And Reflection In A Social Movement, Donna M. Chovanec
Learning Power From The Margins: Analyzing Action And Reflection In A Social Movement, Donna M. Chovanec
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In this paper, I apply the notion of praxis, the dynamic interaction of action and reflection needed for social change, to empirical analysis of a defining moment in the Chilean women’s movement.
Reviving Radical Traditions Of Democracy In Organising For The Future, Tony Brown
Reviving Radical Traditions Of Democracy In Organising For The Future, Tony Brown
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Australian unions have adopted new organising methods to rebuild and develop combative organisations. The vitality involved is tempered by a hostile legal climate that supports flexibility, fragmentation and low wage work. This paper explores the common heritage between the new organising and theories of popular education, radical history and social movement experience that can give strength to these efforts.
“What Was That All About?” Using Critical Personal Narrative For Inquiry And Critical Reflective Practice, Valerie-Lee Chapman
“What Was That All About?” Using Critical Personal Narrative For Inquiry And Critical Reflective Practice, Valerie-Lee Chapman
Adult Education Research Conference
I position Critical Personal Narrative (CPN) within the larger field of interpretive narrative inquiry, offer a framework for its use as a research tool, and conclude by suggesting ways CPN can be utilized by adult educators wanting to be critically reflective in their practice. I illustrate this with two stories of discourses at work.
A Qualitative Inquiry Into Central American Immigrant Women’S Perceptions Of Adult Learning, Ana Guisela Chupina
A Qualitative Inquiry Into Central American Immigrant Women’S Perceptions Of Adult Learning, Ana Guisela Chupina
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Five Central American immigrant women living in a metropolitan area of the Midwestern United States were interviewed. Findings revealed that adult learning was perceived as empowering and experienced as continuous, informal, experiential, and relational
Understanding The Performance: Learning Identity And Domestic Violence, Heather Nash Boxler
Understanding The Performance: Learning Identity And Domestic Violence, Heather Nash Boxler
Adult Education Research Conference
This interpretive ethnographic study examines the process of learning identity as it relates to domestic violence. An identity construct that includes a sense of self and a sense of social is described. Changes are traced in survivors’ identities over time.
Meanings And Manifestations Of The Anarchist-Utopian Ethos In Adult Education, Roger Boshier
Meanings And Manifestations Of The Anarchist-Utopian Ethos In Adult Education, Roger Boshier
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Anarchist-utopians in adult education ascribe considerable significance to learning that occurs away from the surveillance of formal education. First generation anarchist-utopianism was different to that now shaping educational practice. In adult education, leading anarchist-utopians included Ivan Illich and John Ohliger.
How To Support Faculty As They Prepare To Teach Online, Susan C. Biro
How To Support Faculty As They Prepare To Teach Online, Susan C. Biro
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A survey, an in-depth interview, and a review of the literature were used to explore the changes faculty undergo as they transition a course from traditional into online delivery. It was discovered that group trainings, ongoing individual training, mentoring, and a variety of critical reflective activities best supported this group.
Rattling The Cage: Incarcerated Men, Gender And The Construction Of Maleness, Irene C. Baird
Rattling The Cage: Incarcerated Men, Gender And The Construction Of Maleness, Irene C. Baird
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This excerpt from Vanzant speaks to the purpose of this research with incarcerated males. Succinctly, the issue—Vanzant's "harmful actions"/male criminal activity—is an age-old one with punishment as the antidote. This study, alternatively, chose to look at the issue from a learning perspective: men's learning, outside of the academy, to gain insights into themselves, their being as men, and to take ownership for "rerighting" themselves (their words), with literature serving as the medium.
Where Have We Got To? Stories Of Survival, Resistance And Retreat In Sustaining Commitment To Social Purpose In Adult Education, Paul Armstrong
Where Have We Got To? Stories Of Survival, Resistance And Retreat In Sustaining Commitment To Social Purpose In Adult Education, Paul Armstrong
Adult Education Research Conference
As part of a larger study seeking to understand the social, political and cultural values of those who began teaching adult education between 1975 and 1985, this focuses on those adult educators from North America and the UK who took part in an Exchange program between 1984 and 1988.
A Participatory Action Research Study Of The Collaborative Learning Process, Joseph L. Armstrong, Andrew Barrett, George W. Brutchen, Silvia Chamboneth, Jacqueline R. Stillisano
A Participatory Action Research Study Of The Collaborative Learning Process, Joseph L. Armstrong, Andrew Barrett, George W. Brutchen, Silvia Chamboneth, Jacqueline R. Stillisano
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this participatory action research project was to identify attributes that contribute to a successful collaborative learning experience. Data analysis revealed the following emergent themes to be important: reflection and dialogue, interpersonal relationships, and group and individual responsibilities.
Foundations For Aboriginal Adult Literacy, Eileen M. Antone, Peter Gamlin
Foundations For Aboriginal Adult Literacy, Eileen M. Antone, Peter Gamlin
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Aboriginal adult literacy must be firmly rooted in the traditions of Aboriginal people, which continue to be applicable today in the twenty first century. Aboriginal literacy facilitates the development of self determination, affirmation, achievement and sense of purpose. In terms of foundational Aboriginal literacy we found that we must first understand the meaning of Aboriginal literacy in its broadest sense. Consequently Aboriginal literacy programs must reflect a broad approach that recognizes the unique ways that Aboriginal people represent their experience and knowledge. The medicine wheel is an organizing tool used to conceptualize, reframe and revitalize Aboriginal adult education.
Women On Welfare: Expanding Citizenship, Cynthia Lee Andruske
Women On Welfare: Expanding Citizenship, Cynthia Lee Andruske
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this paper is to expand the definition of citizenship to include care work and living social policy of women on welfare created through their community social activism.
Immigration As A Context For Learning: What Do We Know About Immigrant Students In Adult Education?, Mary C. Alfred
Immigration As A Context For Learning: What Do We Know About Immigrant Students In Adult Education?, Mary C. Alfred
Adult Education Research Conference
The concept of diversity in education has received much attention in the social science literature, and since the mid-eighties, it has been receiving some attention in the literature of adult education. Diversity in adult education has focused primarily on race, class, gender, and sexual orientation and how these contexts impact teaching and learning. Little attention has been paid to culture and migration and how they influence learning among foreign-born students. This presentation will highlight the need for adult educators to give attention to the concept of immigration as a context for learning in adulthood.
Bring Only The Most Beautiful: Towards Excellence In Adult Education, Airini & Pale Sauni
Bring Only The Most Beautiful: Towards Excellence In Adult Education, Airini & Pale Sauni
Adult Education Research Conference
Adult learners deserve to be taught by excellent educators. This paper identifies information needs about excellence in adult education pedagogy, a model for excellence, case study, and possible ‘next steps’. The analysis arises from New Zealand citizens of Pacific Nation heritage, intentionally expanding mainstream adult education paradigms.
Witnessing Hope In The Long Learning Of Solidarity: The Intersection Of Hope And Learning In The Remembered Experiences Of Canadian Solidarity Activists, Janice Acton
Adult Education Research Conference
Hope, while largely invisible, is profoundly present in transformative learning in social movements. It is valuable for activists to reflect back through the lens of hope on what they witnessed in the past as being “possible” to help them affirm and augment a new sense of meaning and hope today.