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Examining The Indian Farmer Suicides Through The Social And Environmental Justice Lens, Yogita Abichandani, Juanita Johnson-Bailey
Examining The Indian Farmer Suicides Through The Social And Environmental Justice Lens, Yogita Abichandani, Juanita Johnson-Bailey
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Approximately 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India over the last decade. A majority of them are the ones who have been failed by the non- yield of genetically modified cotton per hectare and are dependent on these crops for their daily livelihood. The GM cottonseeds represent the hegemony and oppression of the farmers propelled by the globalization movement. This paper provides an understanding that the social movements against the GM seeds are in fact movements pointing towards the social and environmental injustices and seeks to understand the role adult education can play in addressing the social and environmental injustice.
“It’S The Physical Versus The Emotional”: Using Poetics To Re-Present The Power Of Art In The Nursing Clinical Experience, Carrie Bailey, C. Amelia Davis
“It’S The Physical Versus The Emotional”: Using Poetics To Re-Present The Power Of Art In The Nursing Clinical Experience, Carrie Bailey, C. Amelia Davis
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The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study was to consider how the use of art in the post-clinical experience could broaden nursing students’ perceptions of holistic care, utilizing reflective practice and arts-based resources to increase their awareness of comprehensive patient care. Arts-based education research served as a useful curriculum tool for deep reflection in clinical nursing students’ experiences. Keeping with the tenor of arts-based research, we used poetic re-presentations as a means of maintaining students’ voices in this work. Reflections not only spanned the care provided but looked closely at patient relationships through analysis of their own clinical practice.
Laughter Doeth Learning Good Like A Medicine, Celia Farr
Laughter Doeth Learning Good Like A Medicine, Celia Farr
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Laughter and its significant benefits lower the affective filter in any learning environment. The release of laughter reduces perceived learning difficulties and lowers learning anxieties which are commonly found in the adult-learner classroom. With the introduction of appropriately-sensitive humor to the classroom, students forge a solid and personal foundation– upon which they can better build the scaffolding for present and future learning experiences. The role of humor and laughter in the adult-learner’s classroom not only enhances the overall learning experience, it also aids in retention of knowledge.
Adult Learning Models For Translational Health Research: Bench, Bedside, And Communities, Linda Ziegahn
Adult Learning Models For Translational Health Research: Bench, Bedside, And Communities, Linda Ziegahn
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The intent of translational health research is to bridge the longstanding gaps between laboratory research and the people who are the intended beneficiaries of the resulting discoveries. Models from the field of adult education, particularly experiential and transformative learning approaches, can be useful in developing theory for the learning processes that occur when scientists, health practitioners, and community members collaborate around the identification, implementation, and evaluation of research projects aimed at improving health for everyone.
Class, Popular Culture, And The Academy: Critical Comments Of Scholars From The Working-Class, Robin Redmon Wright
Class, Popular Culture, And The Academy: Critical Comments Of Scholars From The Working-Class, Robin Redmon Wright
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Twenty-five self-identified working-class scholars were interviewed about their life histories in an effort to understand their career choice. Participants credited the incidental and informal learning they received from consuming film, television shows, popular music, comic books and novels as expanding their world view and instilling a desire to succeed academically.
Math Teachers Come From The Darnedest Places: Adult Learners Becoming Adult Teachers, Gary L. Wright
Math Teachers Come From The Darnedest Places: Adult Learners Becoming Adult Teachers, Gary L. Wright
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In this qualitative study I sought a better understanding of the experiences of mathematics educators who, prior to engaging with their chosen profession, participated in a developmental mathematics course or program. The purpose was to learn more about (i) the impact of faculty (or institutional) attitudes and behaviors on these individuals and (ii) the factors, inside or outside the classroom, that supported their decisions to pursue careers in academia.
Educational And Mothering Discourses And Learner Goals: Mexican Immigrant Women Enacting Agency In A Family Literacy Program, Blaire Willson Toso, Esther Prins
Educational And Mothering Discourses And Learner Goals: Mexican Immigrant Women Enacting Agency In A Family Literacy Program, Blaire Willson Toso, Esther Prins
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This paper, using data from a qualitative study, examines how Mexican immigrant women in a family literacy program appropriated mainstream discourses of mothering and parent involvement to pursue their personal and academic goals. The paper examines notions of human agency, prevailing parenting and literacy discourses, and learner goals and subjectivities.
Hinduism And Adult Learning: Fostering A Mind-Body Connection, Swathi Nath Thaker
Hinduism And Adult Learning: Fostering A Mind-Body Connection, Swathi Nath Thaker
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The Western notions of learning have, and still, dominate the field of adult education, with non-cognitive forms of learning such as somatic learning and spirituality only recently emerging. While much of the Western literature on learning and knowing suggest that the mind and body are split, a number of cultures around the world do not believe in this dichotomy, and Hinduism is no exception. Hinduism, which is said to be over four thousand years old, defines itself according to the Vedas, the most ancient body of religious literature. While much of this content has long been unknown to most Hindus, …
Is Complexity Science Embedded In Transformative Learning?, Ann L. Swartz, Karin Sprow
Is Complexity Science Embedded In Transformative Learning?, Ann L. Swartz, Karin Sprow
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This paper discusses evidence that Jack Mezirow’s (1991) seminal work on transformative learning drew heavily from the precursors of complexity science without making the connection explicit, a trend still present in the transformative learning literature. The use of concepts from complexity theory and its interdisciplinary contributors can improve our understanding of transformative learning and its development.
Embodied Learning And Trauma In The Classroom And In Practice, Ann L. Swartz
Embodied Learning And Trauma In The Classroom And In Practice, Ann L. Swartz
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This study sought to understand how RN-BS clinical students learn through their bodies and how these patterns relate to trauma. Use of an experiential, embodied pedagogy led to emergence of embodied connection with self and new patterns of self-care, professional knowledge and action.
Social Innovation: Creating New Business Models For Adult And Continuing Higher Education, Sandria S. Stephenson
Social Innovation: Creating New Business Models For Adult And Continuing Higher Education, Sandria S. Stephenson
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Using a qualitative approach to inquiry this paper highlights results of a study, which focuses on (1) the current challenges facing continuing higher education (CHE) divisions; (2) how these divisions engage in social and systematic innovation in an effort to foster social responsibility. It demonstrates a model strategy for mitigating the challenges using Drucker’s (1985) eight sources of systematic innovation. CHE divisions will be better prepared to respond to societies’ needs and pursue their mission and that of their parent institutions.
Developing Engaged Scholars: The Graduate Advisor-Advisee Relationship, Lorilee R. Sandmann, Audrey J. Jaeger, Jihyun Kim
Developing Engaged Scholars: The Graduate Advisor-Advisee Relationship, Lorilee R. Sandmann, Audrey J. Jaeger, Jihyun Kim
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A critical dimension in the development of emerging engaged scholars is the advisor-advisee relationship. A multiyear, multiuniversity study of doctoral students interested in community-engaged scholarship and their advisors found that advisors influenced their advisees’ specific approach to community engagement; advisees built extensively on their own community-based experiences and even pushed their advisors in co-learning about communityengaged scholarship; and advisors and advisees shared recognition of lack of support for community engagement but pursued it anyway.
Critical Philosophical Concept Analysis A Search For Meaning Of The Concept Criticality In Adult Education, Bernadine W. Raiskums
Critical Philosophical Concept Analysis A Search For Meaning Of The Concept Criticality In Adult Education, Bernadine W. Raiskums
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This study applied philosophical concept analysis as a qualitative research method to study meanings of the concept “criticality” in adult education. The research design combined elements of two previously applied approaches emphasizing comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the literature. Results of this study provide a clear conceptual foundation and working definition for the concept “criticality” that will serve as a heuristic for further research, theory building, and practice.
Approaches To Assessing Context And Culture In International Nutrition Education Programs, Keriann H. Paul, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Rosemary S. Caffarella
Approaches To Assessing Context And Culture In International Nutrition Education Programs, Keriann H. Paul, Rebecca J. Stoltzfus, Rosemary S. Caffarella
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The purpose of this paper is to explore how context and culture affected the nutrient intakes and complementary feeding (process of feeding solid foods in addition to breast milk) practices of 6 to 12 month old infants in sub-Saharan Africa to generate appropriate nutrition education approaches.
Transformative Learning Intervention: Effect On Functional Health Literacy And Diabetes Knowledge In Older African Americans, Daphne W. Ntiri, Merry Stewart
Transformative Learning Intervention: Effect On Functional Health Literacy And Diabetes Knowledge In Older African Americans, Daphne W. Ntiri, Merry Stewart
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This study evaluated the effect of a transformative learning intervention on functional health literacy and diabetes knowledge in older African Americans. Twenty participants from senior community centers completed a six session intervention and three health literacy tests. Participants’ verbal responses affirmed the positive influence of the TL principles.
Learning About/For Sustainability As Contested Space: Contemporary Characterizations Of Adult Education In The Sustainable Agriculture Movement, Kim L. Niewolny, Nancy Grudens-Schuck, Arthur L. Wilson
Learning About/For Sustainability As Contested Space: Contemporary Characterizations Of Adult Education In The Sustainable Agriculture Movement, Kim L. Niewolny, Nancy Grudens-Schuck, Arthur L. Wilson
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We illustrate how various forms of adult education, and the interests they serve, help create spaces for learning in the sustainable agriculture movement as a neglected dimension of adult education research. Implications for further exploring the learning dimensions of social movements are discussed.
Performance Inquiry As Political Participation: A Storied And Embodied Model For Community Based Research, Yolanda Nieves, Randee Lipson Lawrence
Performance Inquiry As Political Participation: A Storied And Embodied Model For Community Based Research, Yolanda Nieves, Randee Lipson Lawrence
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This paper introduces a model of arts-based research using performance to center a sub-altern perspective utilizing a feminist process of data analysis and representation. Stories are collected from narrative interviews and then analyzed and expressed as performance text in the communities where they originated. Research becomes accessible beyond the academy while purposely centering previously marginalized voices.
Cultural Border Crossing: An Exploration Of Power, Positionality, And Pedagogy In Context, Kathryn Nielson-Dube, Diane Mceachern
Cultural Border Crossing: An Exploration Of Power, Positionality, And Pedagogy In Context, Kathryn Nielson-Dube, Diane Mceachern
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This paper explores literature drawn from interdisciplinary scholarship that speaks to positionality as it applies to the complex dynamics of intercultural border crossing through the lens of two distinctly different institutional contexts – an adult service learning partnership at a private, Northeastern college and an indigenous adult cohort university program.
Disturbing Outcomes: The Dark Side Of Transformative Learning, Dana Naughton, Fred Schied
Disturbing Outcomes: The Dark Side Of Transformative Learning, Dana Naughton, Fred Schied
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This paper argues for a need to expand investigation of transformative learning theory to include consideration of transformative learning processes, practices and outcomes that do not follow a ‘positive’ direction but traverse a wide band of possibilities.
Developing Anti-Racist Adult Education Scholars: The Role Of Adult Education Faculty, Barbara A. Metelsky, Thomas R. Easley
Developing Anti-Racist Adult Education Scholars: The Role Of Adult Education Faculty, Barbara A. Metelsky, Thomas R. Easley
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of adult education faculty in the preparation of anti-racist adult education scholars. We examine this issue through a brief discussion of adult education literature and relevant literature from other disciplines. We recommend a call to action which promotes the deliberate and strategic development of anti-racist adult education scholars and prepares faculty for their roles toward this end.
Against All Odds: Migrant And Seasonal Agricultural Workers Seek To Improve Their Lives Through The Ged And It’S Impact On Parent Involvement, Maria Mejorado, Raquel Gonzales
Against All Odds: Migrant And Seasonal Agricultural Workers Seek To Improve Their Lives Through The Ged And It’S Impact On Parent Involvement, Maria Mejorado, Raquel Gonzales
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Our presentation will focus upon a group of seasonal agricultural workers, enrolled in GED classes. To what extent are Latino parents currently involved in the schooling of their children? Does studying for the GED impact the depth and scope of their involvement? What implications does this have for increasing parent involvement in schools? In particular, how can more fathers become engaged in schools?
Interracial Marriage And Black Women’S Racial Identity: Polyrhythmic Voices And Realities In Adult Education, Joyce Mcnickles
Interracial Marriage And Black Women’S Racial Identity: Polyrhythmic Voices And Realities In Adult Education, Joyce Mcnickles
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This research study explored how Black women who are married to White men understood, experienced, and described their Black identity. Applications of womanism, Black women’s epistemology, racial identity theory, and constructivist grounded theory revealed Exogamous Black Identity as a dimension of racial identity.
Lifelong Learning Or Lifelong Listening? Transforming The Learning Experiences Of Older Adults In Higher Education In Scotland Through Dialogue, Chris Mcallister, Grace D. Poulter
Lifelong Learning Or Lifelong Listening? Transforming The Learning Experiences Of Older Adults In Higher Education In Scotland Through Dialogue, Chris Mcallister, Grace D. Poulter
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This paper proposes that theorising about widening participation pedagogic practice in relation to older adults can be significantly developed by integrating insights from critical educational gerontology and academic literacies perspectives. We examine the possibilities of this theoretical development by drawing on two exploratory research projects with 20 older students in a Scottish university, proposing dialogue can act as a catalyst for making the opaque, transparent and learning experiences, transformative.
Adult Education To Become Citizen. An Experience From Southern Europe, Emilio Lucio-Villegas, Antonio Fragoso
Adult Education To Become Citizen. An Experience From Southern Europe, Emilio Lucio-Villegas, Antonio Fragoso
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In this paper, we present a reflection on experiences with adult education and participation. We consider citizenship as something connected to social justice and to social inclusion.
Implementation Of Lifelong Learning Policies In South Korea: A World Society Perspective4, Jung Eun Lee
Implementation Of Lifelong Learning Policies In South Korea: A World Society Perspective4, Jung Eun Lee
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This study examines the process of the implementation of lifelong learning policies in South Korea, and builds on a world society perspective, which views international organizations as major agents that diffuse the norm of lifelong learning across nations. Analysis of literature reveals that UNESCO through international conference on adult education (CONFINTEA) played a decisive role in South Korea’s adaptation of lifelong learning as a national agenda.
Professional Learning Leading To Perspective And Practice Changes: An Integrated Model For Math Education Professional Development, Kathleen P. King, Judit Kerekes
Professional Learning Leading To Perspective And Practice Changes: An Integrated Model For Math Education Professional Development, Kathleen P. King, Judit Kerekes
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The purpose of the action research was to guide the teachers’ practice and development and explore professional results of the approach. This paper presents and analyzes findings from the five teacher participants' interviews, their reflections, and their artifacts/assignments to reveal the scope and nature of the changes using transformative learning as a framework.
Towards A Critical Framework Of Learning In Retirement, Sean Joo Kim
Towards A Critical Framework Of Learning In Retirement, Sean Joo Kim
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This paper reviews two retirement models and describes their lack of attention to retirement as an outdated social institution, limiting our understanding of retirement’s features. The need for awareness of retirement insecurity as being embedded in traditional career paths is addressed, and implications for adult education are presented.
Advancing Cultural Knowledge: Experiential Learning International Graduate Study Training Programs In The Health And Stem Disciplines, Janelle Jung, Rosemary S. Caffarella
Advancing Cultural Knowledge: Experiential Learning International Graduate Study Training Programs In The Health And Stem Disciplines, Janelle Jung, Rosemary S. Caffarella
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This paper, based on a review of the case studies of international experiential learning programs in the sciences and health sciences, discusses key characteristics of current programs in increasing cultural knowledge among graduate students in those fields, and proposes a set of guidelines for future program development.
Critical Policy Analysis: Investigating ‘Missing’ Values In The Lifelong Education System Of South Korea, K.P. Joo, In Tak Kwon
Critical Policy Analysis: Investigating ‘Missing’ Values In The Lifelong Education System Of South Korea, K.P. Joo, In Tak Kwon
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This paper illustrates that ‘critical policy analysis’ (CPA) can uncover meaningful ‘missing’ values within the highly structured, centralized South Korean lifelong education policies and institutions.
Lucy Wilcox Adams: Early Advocate Of Discussion-Based Adult Education, Susan Imel
Lucy Wilcox Adams: Early Advocate Of Discussion-Based Adult Education, Susan Imel
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The writings of Lucy Wilcox Adams as well as both historical and contemporary adult education literature were analyzed for the purposes of (1) examining the role of women in the development of the field; (2) discerning the development of Adams’ ideas regarding discussion-based adult education; and (3) comparing and contrasting her ideas with other literature.