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Thinking Inside The Box: Graduate Students’ Perspectives On Hindered Creativity, Michelle N. Anderson May 2009

Thinking Inside The Box: Graduate Students’ Perspectives On Hindered Creativity, Michelle N. Anderson

Adult Education Research Conference

This phenomenological study focused on the lived experiences of adult graduate students in relation to creativity. Findings illuminate the influence of professors on educational experiences of hindered creativity.


New Territories In Adult Education: Game-Based Learning For Adult Learners, Bryce O. Anderson, Michelle N. Anderson, Thomas A. Taylor May 2009

New Territories In Adult Education: Game-Based Learning For Adult Learners, Bryce O. Anderson, Michelle N. Anderson, Thomas A. Taylor

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this paper is to address the different approaches to game-based learning by focusing on applied examples and implications for adult education.


A Phenomenological Study Of The Educational Experiences Of Black Women: Learning As You Go, Eva Young, Mary Ziegler, Kathy Greenberg Nov 2008

A Phenomenological Study Of The Educational Experiences Of Black Women: Learning As You Go, Eva Young, Mary Ziegler, Kathy Greenberg

Adult Education Research Conference

This research study provided a descriptive picture of educational experiences of three sets of Black sisters who grew up in the inner-city. A qualitative existential-phenomenological research study design was used to derive common themes that represented the universal essence of the participants’ experiences. This study illuminated the formal and informal learning experiences of Black women and the profound role cultural experiences of family and community play in shaping their learning experiences through adulthood. Findings suggest that the educational experiences of Black women influenced their development, voice, self-esteem, and self-defined achievement and success. These findings dispute adult development theories that suggest …


“I Learned More Than I Wanted”: A Phenomenological Investigation Of The Experience Of Having One’S Beliefs Challenged In An Undergraduate Religion Course, Steven B. Frye Sep 2008

“I Learned More Than I Wanted”: A Phenomenological Investigation Of The Experience Of Having One’S Beliefs Challenged In An Undergraduate Religion Course, Steven B. Frye

Adult Education Research Conference

This phenomenological study explored the experience of having pre-existing beliefs challenged in learning. Themes of an environment of challenge, the powerful role of the teacher, and choice stood out against the ground of the learners’ expectations of being challenged in the undergraduate religion class.


Oh, East Is East, And West Is West, And Never The Two Shall Meet: A Critical Review Of Museum Studies And Adult Education Literature, Dana Dudzinska-Prezesmitzki, Robin S. Grenier Sep 2008

Oh, East Is East, And West Is West, And Never The Two Shall Meet: A Critical Review Of Museum Studies And Adult Education Literature, Dana Dudzinska-Prezesmitzki, Robin S. Grenier

Adult Education Research Conference

Both museum and adult learning researchers seek to understand how to best educate adults. Despite a plethora of common areas where the two fields intersect this review found limited evidence of shared epistemological, theoretical and empirical research or “roots”. Given the mutual interests of these fields it is argued that sharing of epistemological, theoretical and empirical research would benefit both. Implications and future research opportunities are discussed.


Cultural Components Of Technology And Its Implications For Adult Education, Jim Berger Sep 2008

Cultural Components Of Technology And Its Implications For Adult Education, Jim Berger

Adult Education Research Conference

This article seeks to describe technology and how its design and use embodies values embedded in the dominant culture and is meant to support the hegemonic goals of the dominant culture while suppressing the growth and development of marginalized groups and propose a means of researching between technology and adult learners.


A Holistic Conceptualization Of Adult Learning And Its Critiques Of Selected Concepts And Theories, Baiyin Yang Sep 2006

A Holistic Conceptualization Of Adult Learning And Its Critiques Of Selected Concepts And Theories, Baiyin Yang

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper critically evaluates several contemporary concepts and theories of adult learning. Most of existing adult learning theories and conceptualizations tend to narrowly define knowledge and learning. Holistic learning theory provides an integrative framework that can be used adequately explain many propositions of major contemporary theories and concepts of adult learning.


A Different Definition Of “Boob-Tube”: What Dr. Catherine Gale, Of The Avengers, Taught Women, Robin Redmon Wright Aug 2006

A Different Definition Of “Boob-Tube”: What Dr. Catherine Gale, Of The Avengers, Taught Women, Robin Redmon Wright

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper summarizes a qualitative research project exploring the impact of the first feminist television character, Cathy Gale, of the 1962-64 British television program, The Avengers. Contemporaneous British women viewers reveal how Gale’s character helped them reject traditional roles, incorporate the character’s strengths, and seek out other feminist role models.


A Critical Review Of The Empirical Research Of Transformative Learning (1999-2005), Edward W. Taylor Aug 2006

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.


The Role Of Learning Experiences In The Development Of Expertise, Robin S. Grenier Jul 2006

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.


Reorienting To Expectations Of Change, Elizabeth Grigoriu Jul 2006

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.


Thoughts And Feelings Of A Beginning Tertiary Group Of Adult Learners In A Human Resource Development Course, Bryan W. Smith Jan 2000

Thoughts And Feelings Of A Beginning Tertiary Group Of Adult Learners In A Human Resource Development Course, Bryan W. Smith

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This is a study of a case of adults entering tertiary study for the first time, and their mental life concerning their own self-performance, constructed across four instances. The purposes of the study were to identify some characteristics of the four participants’ covert behaviour during their learning in a course on Human Resource Development (1-IRD), to gain some insight into the conception of self-performance held by the participants and the attributions of this self-performance, to examine the approaches to learning held by each participant, and to contribute to closing the gap between adult education and educational psychology. Three consecutive three-hour …