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Beyond The Inquiring Mind: Cyril Houle’S Connection To Self-Directed Learning, Ralph G. Brockett, Robert C. Donaghy
Beyond The Inquiring Mind: Cyril Houle’S Connection To Self-Directed Learning, Ralph G. Brockett, Robert C. Donaghy
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines the early development of self-directed learning as an area of study and practice using Cyril Houle as the point of departure. Through a variety of sources, a perspective is offered on how self-directed learning gained a foothold as a viable area of inquiry in adult education.
Learning At Highlander: A Template For Transformative Adult Education, Donna J. G Brian Ed.D., Olga Elbert Ph.D.
Learning At Highlander: A Template For Transformative Adult Education, Donna J. G Brian Ed.D., Olga Elbert Ph.D.
Adult Education Research Conference
This study takes a retrospective look at Highlander Research and Education Center through the eyes of several adult educators who participated, over the years, in Highlander workshops and events. Their collective experiences are summarized and analyzed and form the basis for a comparison to modern day transformative adult education.
Teaching For Empowerment Liberatory Pedagogy, Social Change And Gender Dynamics, Jennifer Ferrigno, David Hemphill, Ming-Yeh Lee
Teaching For Empowerment Liberatory Pedagogy, Social Change And Gender Dynamics, Jennifer Ferrigno, David Hemphill, Ming-Yeh Lee
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper offers a critical perspective on popular education with a focus on inequities of gender and culture in the classroom. Using classroom observation, analysis of multiple social change curricula, and interviews with practitioners in El Salvador and the San Francisco Bay Area, we examine potential pitfalls and strengths of a pedagogy from the point of view of transformational theory, concluding that with judicious intention the pedagogy may still lead to inspired learning, transformation in the classroom, and change in the participant communities.
“Corporate Social Responsibility”: A Site For Critical Learning In Workplaces?, Tara Fenwick, Laura Bierema
“Corporate Social Responsibility”: A Site For Critical Learning In Workplaces?, Tara Fenwick, Laura Bierema
Adult Education Research Conference
Notions of social responsibility have become fashionable in businesses. While clearly a marketing ploy for some, for other firms CSR appears to represent a genuine commitment to new practices and organization-wide learning. Encouraged by these positive cases, we explored the extent to which CSR might create a site for critical learning in workplaces.
Learning Our Way Out: A Model Of Program Planning For Changing Times, Dent C. Davis, Mary F. Ziegler
Learning Our Way Out: A Model Of Program Planning For Changing Times, Dent C. Davis, Mary F. Ziegler
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper describes a community based planning project that led to the identification of a learning model of adult education program planning. The paper identifies the model, locates it within the program planning literature, and suggests implications and limitations for practice.
Principles Of Adult Education At Work In An Early Women’S Prison: The Case Of The Massachusetts Reformatory, 1930-1960, Dominique T. Chlup
Principles Of Adult Education At Work In An Early Women’S Prison: The Case Of The Massachusetts Reformatory, 1930-1960, Dominique T. Chlup
Adult Education Research Conference
Abstract: This paper discusses the role and significance of adult education principles as espoused by an early corrections official Austin MacCormick and how his philosophy and aim of adult education for prisoners relates to the educational programs and practices implemented at the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.
Border Crossings: Baha’I Women And Narratives Of Learning To Be Global Citizens, Siew Sim Chin
Border Crossings: Baha’I Women And Narratives Of Learning To Be Global Citizens, Siew Sim Chin
Adult Education Research Conference
This is an empirical study of how ten Baha’i women learn to cultivate a sense of global belonging through mapping and entering the world from a spiritual paradigm. Emerging from the (re)constitution of their identities across place, nations, and religion is a widening of loyalties and expanded belonging.
Social Learning For Fugitive Learners: The Out Is In Arts-Informed Queer Community Education Project In Alberta, André P. Grace, Kristopher Wells
Social Learning For Fugitive Learners: The Out Is In Arts-Informed Queer Community Education Project In Alberta, André P. Grace, Kristopher Wells
Adult Education Research Conference
In this paper we explore Alberta’s Out Is In project, which is an arts-informed community education project that we developed to focus on the individual development, social learning, socialization, and inclusion of queer young adults. We discuss activities including a summer 2004 leadership and learning camp that used informal and nonformal learning approaches to achieve the project’s goals.
Lifelong Learning In A Global Context: Towards A Reconceptualization Of Adult Education, Fred M. Schied, Derek Mulenga, Ian Baptiste
Lifelong Learning In A Global Context: Towards A Reconceptualization Of Adult Education, Fred M. Schied, Derek Mulenga, Ian Baptiste
Adult Education Research Conference
The paper argues that a reconceptualization of adult education around lifelong learning and globalization requires a rethinking of curricular and research issues. The paper highlights curricular issues involved in creating in such a reconceptualization. It does this by juxtapositioning the objectives and goals of this “new " focus with the CPAE’s Standards for Graduate Programs. Objectives and goals are suggested that revolve around integrated notions of learning that account for the impact of globalization on learning as inseparable from political and social processes.
Immigrant Civic Participation And Leadership Development In Citizenship Schools: A Research Study Using Appreciative Inquiry, Luis Kong
Adult Education Research Conference
This study investigates the experiences of immigrant participants and staff of citizenship schools who are developing civic participation and leadership programs in immigrant communities. This action research study provides a look at what works within community-based citizenship schools through the lens of democratic social change, social constructivism and Appreciative Inquiry.
Training Critically Conscious Educators: Bolivian Women In Popular Education, Judith Kollins, Catherine A. Hansman
Training Critically Conscious Educators: Bolivian Women In Popular Education, Judith Kollins, Catherine A. Hansman
Adult Education Research Conference
This study examines how the Education Office of the Oficina Jurídica Para la Mujer [Women’s Legal Office] (OJM), a community-based popular education organization in Cochabamba, Bolivia, works with women to address personal, legal and policy issues through local leadership training and popular education methodology, demonstrating a powerful model for achieving individual, family, community and societal change.
Contextualizing Professional Development In Adult Learning With Urban Alternative High Schools, Kathleen P. King, Barbara P. Heuer, Maa't O. Jakuta
Contextualizing Professional Development In Adult Learning With Urban Alternative High Schools, Kathleen P. King, Barbara P. Heuer, Maa't O. Jakuta
Adult Education Research Conference
This case study presents the design, delivery and evaluation of a professional development curriculum developed in response to educators’ and departmental needs in urban alternative high schools and based on a model of adult learning.
Black Women’S Leadership Development: Implications For Their Representation In The Political Arena, Dionne Rosser-Mims
Black Women’S Leadership Development: Implications For Their Representation In The Political Arena, Dionne Rosser-Mims
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper traces Black women’s leadership development experiences overtime and the relevant socio-political linkages that help to explain why Black women continue to remain largely underrepresented in political leadership at the state and national levels. Attending to Black women’s leadership development needs is critical to increasing their representation in politics.
Theorizing Blue-Collar Response To Imposed Technological Change, Robert F. Reardon, Thomas Valentine
Theorizing Blue-Collar Response To Imposed Technological Change, Robert F. Reardon, Thomas Valentine
Adult Education Research Conference
A study was conducted at twelve manufacturing facilities. The data from this study indicated the response of blue-collar workers to imposed technological change can be conceptualized as having seven factors: Disgruntlement, Job-security concerns, Accommodation, Informal learning, Resistance, Discussion, and Formal learning. Cluster analysis of the data identified three types of blue collar workers: Complainers, Team players, and Loners. In this study, membership in the Team players cluster increased as a function of age.
Hegemony, Hope, And The Harlem Renaissance: Taking Hip Hop Culture Seriously, Robert J. Price Jr.
Hegemony, Hope, And The Harlem Renaissance: Taking Hip Hop Culture Seriously, Robert J. Price Jr.
Adult Education Research Conference
Adult education instructors and administrators, who typically are not members of the hip hop generation, often have little knowledge and understanding of rap music (a.k.a. gansta rap) and hip hop culture, and consequently do not take the black popular cultural phenomenon seriously as it relates to adult education. Adult educators, especially those that serve in urban contexts, must listen to, take seriously, and understand adults in order to bridge the “culture gap” between mainstream and hip hop cultures. Talmadge Guy (2004) theorizes that the impact of hip hop culture and gangsta rap music on adult education is becoming more evident …
The Problem Of Power, Arthur L. Wilson, Tom Nesbith
The Problem Of Power, Arthur L. Wilson, Tom Nesbith
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this paper is to examine various critical theoretical traditions for what power is and how it works.
Communities Of Practice And Situated Learning: A Theoretical Examination Of A Shift In Individual Power, Julia Storberg-Walker
Communities Of Practice And Situated Learning: A Theoretical Examination Of A Shift In Individual Power, Julia Storberg-Walker
Adult Education Research Conference
This manuscript describes a new theory of empowerment in the workplace. Unlike typical management literature dealing with empowerment, this theory uses a critical perspective to explain how communities of practice generate authentic empowerment at work. Authentic empowerment leads to higher performance, innovation, creativity, and success.
Foreword, Teresa Northern Miller
Foreword, Teresa Northern Miller
Educational Considerations
This special issue of Educational Considerations continues the theme of the preparation of educational leaders introduced in the Spring 2005 issue, which was guest-edited by Michelle D. Young, Meredith Mountford, and Gary M. Crow.
Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol.33, No. 1, Fall 2005, Teresa Northern Miller
Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol.33, No. 1, Fall 2005, Teresa Northern Miller
Educational Considerations
Table of contents and editorial information for Vol.33, no. 1, Fall 2005
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions For The Simultaneous Renewal Of A School District And Its Partner University, Meredith Mountford
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions For The Simultaneous Renewal Of A School District And Its Partner University, Meredith Mountford
Educational Considerations
Organizational self-renewal is the process in which existing structural and cognitive order within an organization is dissolved and new order is created.
Training Principals To Ensure Access To Equitable Learning Opportunities In A High-Need Rural School District, Tricia Browne-Ferrigno, Robert C. Knoeppel
Training Principals To Ensure Access To Equitable Learning Opportunities In A High-Need Rural School District, Tricia Browne-Ferrigno, Robert C. Knoeppel
Educational Considerations
During the mid-1980s in Kentucky, a grassroots advocacy group composed of 66 property-poor school districts, seven local school boards, and 22 public school students formed, calling itself the Council for Better Education, Inc.
"The Earth Is Not Flat Anymore": Reflections On The Impact Of A Rural/Urban Educational Leadership Exchange On Place-Based Instruction, Cynthia J. Norris
"The Earth Is Not Flat Anymore": Reflections On The Impact Of A Rural/Urban Educational Leadership Exchange On Place-Based Instruction, Cynthia J. Norris
Educational Considerations
In May of 2004, an educational administration doctoral cohort of ten East Tennessee K-12 teachers and administrators visited a sample of Cincinnati public schools.
Online Learning In Secondary Education: A New Frontier, Simone Conceição, Sarah B. Drummond
Online Learning In Secondary Education: A New Frontier, Simone Conceição, Sarah B. Drummond
Educational Considerations
Distance education is not a new concept in the educational arena. In 1892, it was established in the United States with correspondence study at the University of Chicago through the home study department of the Division of Extension.
Portfolio Analysis: Documenting The Progress And Performance Of Educational Administration Students.., Teresa Northern Miller, Trudy Salsberry
Portfolio Analysis: Documenting The Progress And Performance Of Educational Administration Students.., Teresa Northern Miller, Trudy Salsberry
Educational Considerations
The field of educational administration continues to evolve as practitioners and researchers face the challenges of preparing leaders for schools.
Educational Considerations, Vol. 33(1) Full Issue, Teresa Northern Miller
Educational Considerations, Vol. 33(1) Full Issue, Teresa Northern Miller
Educational Considerations
Educational Considerations, vol. 33(1)-Fall 2005-Full issue
Connections Between Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management, Elisabeth E. Bennett
Connections Between Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management, Elisabeth E. Bennett
Adult Education Research Conference
In the present knowledge economy, Adult Education (AE) plays an important role in creating, distributing, and applying knowledge through research and practice. AE programs are considered to be political and ethical activities (Cervero & Wilson, 1995; Wlodkowski & Ginsberg, 1995) that often occur in organizational contexts, including academic, for-profit, and non-profit groups. Organizations tend to have a predominant outlook on knowledge that is part of organizational culture (OC) (Wikstrom & Normann, 1994). A new line of inquiry, Knowledge Management (KM), focuses on how knowledge is acquired, created, and distributed (Alvesson & Karreman, 2001; Lengnick-Hall & Lengnick-Hall, 2003) within organizations. Alavi …
Gender Difference In Online Discussions: What’S Happening In That Space, Jusung Jun
Gender Difference In Online Discussions: What’S Happening In That Space, Jusung Jun
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this paper was to examine the nature of the online discussion that male and female adult learners created in a specific online learning setting. This purpose was guided by the following research question: To what extent can manifestations of power be explained by personal characteristics of students?
Equitable, Not Equal: Perspectives Of Community-University Partnerships Through The Voices Of Community Stakeholders, Lorilee R. Sandmann Ph.D.
Equitable, Not Equal: Perspectives Of Community-University Partnerships Through The Voices Of Community Stakeholders, Lorilee R. Sandmann Ph.D.
Adult Education Research Conference
Adult and community development practitioners and scholars are frequently involved in community-university partnerships. A core premise of these partnerships is that university engagement in communities is best done via collaborative, mutually respectful, mutually beneficial partnerships (HUD, 2002). Effective partnerships take time and effort and they require mobilizing resources from diverse parties with overlapping and sometimes conflicting interests. Sustaining them requires that the parties strike a balance between the interest of communities and of higher education institutions.
Connections Between Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management, Elisabeth E. Bennett
Connections Between Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management, Elisabeth E. Bennett
Adult Education Research Conference
In the present knowledge economy, Adult Education (AE) plays an important role in creating, distributing, and applying knowledge through research and practice. AE programs are considered to be political and ethical activities (Cervero & Wilson, 1995; Wlodkowski & Ginsberg, 1995) that often occur in organizational contexts, including academic, for-profit, and non-profit groups. Organizations tend to have a predominant outlook on knowledge that is part of organizational culture (OC) (Wikstrom & Normann, 1994). A new line of inquiry, Knowledge Management (KM), focuses on how knowledge is acquired, created, and distributed (Alvesson & Karreman, 2001; Lengnick-Hall & Lengnick-Hall, 2003) within organizations. Alavi …
Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 32, No. 2, Spring 2005, Michelle D. Young, Meredith Mountford, Gary M. Crow
Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 32, No. 2, Spring 2005, Michelle D. Young, Meredith Mountford, Gary M. Crow
Educational Considerations
Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 32, no. 2, Spring 2005 - a special issue on "Preparing Educational Leaders."