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Academic Sisterhood: A Collaborative Autoethnography Of Two Asian Mothers, Adult Educators, And Scholars, Maria Liu Wong, Aimee Tiu-Wu
Academic Sisterhood: A Collaborative Autoethnography Of Two Asian Mothers, Adult Educators, And Scholars, Maria Liu Wong, Aimee Tiu-Wu
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In a global context where Western models and theories continue to dominate and influence adult educational research, multi-vocal perspectives of meaning making and learning from educators raised and educated in the East and West can contribute to more nuanced dialogue and exchange. Utilizing collaborative autoethnography, a qualitative research method that explores society through the lens of self in relation to other (Chang, Ngunjiri & Hernandez, 2013), we provide a window and a mirror into the complexity of East-West learning dynamics as two multicultural Asian immigrant academics educated and raising our children in the West. Together, as mothers, adult educators and …
Meaning And Pedagogical Impact Of Class Notes Translated Into Mandarin Chinese For Scholars From China Enrolled In Research Techniques Traning, Tiffany L. Whitcomb, Jiafen Hu
Meaning And Pedagogical Impact Of Class Notes Translated Into Mandarin Chinese For Scholars From China Enrolled In Research Techniques Traning, Tiffany L. Whitcomb, Jiafen Hu
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We conducted a qualitative study to understand the meaning of translating class notes into Mandarin Chinese for Chinese students enrolled in our hands-on training program for biomedical techniques. To date, no studies have reported interventions to support researchers from China as they learn animal care and use techniques, particularly whether translating class materials into Mandarin Chinese fulfills a specific pedagogical need. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in order to collect rich, descriptive data. Interviews were transcribed and open coding was conducted by each researcher independently. Axial coding was performed in unison until a consensus for categories was reached. Several themes emerged …
Making Meaning Of The Retirement Portfolio And Its Impact On Learning In The Third Age, Darcia L. Simpson, Elice E. Rogers, Catherine A. Hansman, Johnathan E. Messemer
Making Meaning Of The Retirement Portfolio And Its Impact On Learning In The Third Age, Darcia L. Simpson, Elice E. Rogers, Catherine A. Hansman, Johnathan E. Messemer
Adult Education Research Conference
This roundtable examines relevant literature concerning the impact of one’s retirement portfolio and the economic self-sufficiency essential for learning and living in the Third Age of life. Third Agers are conceptualized as active retirement aged individuals, in good health with possibly 20+ years of life ahead of them.
Teaching Diversity And Social Justice In Adult And Higher Education Contexts, Delores Rice, Petra A. Robinson
Teaching Diversity And Social Justice In Adult And Higher Education Contexts, Delores Rice, Petra A. Robinson
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This presentation provides a synthesis of research that sought to identify best practices in teaching issues of diversity and social justice. The interactive discussion provides opportunities to share best practices on instructional techniques/ strategies to enhance equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice in higher education and other adult education settings.
The Use Of Debates In Higher Education Classrooms, Michele Mont
The Use Of Debates In Higher Education Classrooms, Michele Mont
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Debating is a well-known pedagogical technique used to encourage discussion, motivate students, and it leads to more meaningful understanding of content. Yet, the only learners who typically participate in debates are those on debate teams (Kennedy, 2007). The challenge for educators is to determine how to use well-known principles of debating to facilitate discussions leading to mutual understanding. Mutual understanding is typically achieved when participants are willing to acknowledge different viewpoints or even adjust their views. This paper will explore some basic principles of debating and examine the benefits of including meaningful, interactive discussions in higher education classrooms.
Examination Of Physical Therapists Understanding Of Geriatric Patient Advocacy, Kristen Karnish
Examination Of Physical Therapists Understanding Of Geriatric Patient Advocacy, Kristen Karnish
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The goal of this study is to examine the attitudes, beliefs and actions of physical therapists regarding advocacy for geriatric patients. Patient advocacy is a multifaceted component of health care embedded in the role of health care practitioners. Mixed methods research will utilize a critical gerontology perspective to explore the complexity of factors involved in geriatric patient advocacy.
Preparing Students And Faculty To Engage In Interdisciplinary Research: Are We Up To The Challenge?, Tamera Keiter Humbert, Charla Lorenzen
Preparing Students And Faculty To Engage In Interdisciplinary Research: Are We Up To The Challenge?, Tamera Keiter Humbert, Charla Lorenzen
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The purpose of this paper is to highlight the strengths and challenges of a small, interdisciplinary research project between a foreign language department and an allied health professional program.
Phenomenology Of Adult Education As An Interdisciplinary Field: Revisiting Sherman Stanage, Jeff Zacharakis
Phenomenology Of Adult Education As An Interdisciplinary Field: Revisiting Sherman Stanage, Jeff Zacharakis
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The purpose of this paper’s theoretical analysis is to reintroduce and explore Stanage’s phenomenological analysis of adult education, and offers insight to how this field of study can expand its intellectual boundaries to become an interdisciplinary force of learning that permeates all other academic disciplines.
Engaging Learners In Critical Analysis Through Concept Maps: From Theory To Practice, Susan M. Yelich-Biniecki
Engaging Learners In Critical Analysis Through Concept Maps: From Theory To Practice, Susan M. Yelich-Biniecki
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper addresses the use of concept maps to engage adult learners in critical analysis. The discussion is situated within four adult learning theories. Examples from different contexts using concept maps and connections between theories, learning process, locus of learning, teacher’s role, manifestation in adult education, and activities are presented.
Situated Learning And The Development Of Relationships: Bridging The Gap Between Veterinarians And Researchers, Tiffany Whitcomb, Edward Taylor
Situated Learning And The Development Of Relationships: Bridging The Gap Between Veterinarians And Researchers, Tiffany Whitcomb, Edward Taylor
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The development of the student teacher relationship has been largely ignored within the tenets of situated learning. Here we report the results of a mixed method study that explored relationships between researchers and veterinarians in a biomedical techniques training program designed theoretically and practically from the lens of situated learning.
Creating A Caring Culture: Exploring The Implications Of Gratitude In Adult Education, Kellee R. Vess, Jeffrey A. Russell
Creating A Caring Culture: Exploring The Implications Of Gratitude In Adult Education, Kellee R. Vess, Jeffrey A. Russell
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Viewing classrooms as a culture, we sought to determine if gratitude could be a meaningful resource for creating a “caring” culture within the classroom setting. Findings suggest that gratitude promotes prosocial behaviors, builds stronger relationships, and helps to develop a greater sense of well-being (McCullough, Emmons, & Tsang, 2002; Emmons, 2008).
“You Have To Be Proactive With Your Child’S Health”: Learning And Health Literacy Among Caregivers Of Children With Adhd, Blaire W. Toso, Esther Prins, Kimeka Campbell, Barbara Schaefer, Dawn Witherspoon, Susan Woodhouse
“You Have To Be Proactive With Your Child’S Health”: Learning And Health Literacy Among Caregivers Of Children With Adhd, Blaire W. Toso, Esther Prins, Kimeka Campbell, Barbara Schaefer, Dawn Witherspoon, Susan Woodhouse
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper uses focus group data to examine health literacy among 26 low-socioeconomic status, minority caregivers of school-age children with ADHD. To cope with their child’s ADHD symptoms or diagnosis, caregivers used observation, gathered information from multiple sources, and discerned how to obtain services within confusing system healthcare and education systems.
“I Know Down To My Ribs”: A Study Of The Embodied Adult Learning Of Creative Writers, Jennifer Tobin, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
“I Know Down To My Ribs”: A Study Of The Embodied Adult Learning Of Creative Writers, Jennifer Tobin, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
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This paper reports a narrative analysis on the embodied learning of creative writers, by providing an extended narrative on the embodied learning of one participant. It is theoretically grounded in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of the body, Gendlin’s notion of the “felt sense, and Jordi’s analysis of reflection for integrating mind and body.
Becoming Systems Thinkers: Increasing Social Capital Through Network Weak Links, Ann L. Swartz
Becoming Systems Thinkers: Increasing Social Capital Through Network Weak Links, Ann L. Swartz
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this study was to describe the emerging patterns of connection between students and complexity science concepts as learning occurred.
Reconnecting With Your Passion: Story And Professional Nursing, Melissa J. Snyder
Reconnecting With Your Passion: Story And Professional Nursing, Melissa J. Snyder
Adult Education Research Conference
This action research study examines how nurses engage in a professional development program that draws on reading and creative narrative writing strategies focused upon professional values and ideals.
Making Meaning Of The Retirement Portfolio And Its Impact On Learning In The Third Age, Darcia L. Simpson, Elice E. Rogers, Catherine A. Hansman, Jonathan E. Messemer
Making Meaning Of The Retirement Portfolio And Its Impact On Learning In The Third Age, Darcia L. Simpson, Elice E. Rogers, Catherine A. Hansman, Jonathan E. Messemer
Adult Education Research Conference
This roundtable examines relevant literature concerning the impact of one’s retirement portfolio and the economic self-sufficiency essential for learning and living in the Third Age of life. Third Agers are conceptualized as active retirement aged individuals, in good health with possibly 20+ years of life ahead of them.
Critical Pedagogy, Discourse Tensions, And The Basic Writing Classroom: A Critical Action Research Study, Alfred A.Z. Siha
Critical Pedagogy, Discourse Tensions, And The Basic Writing Classroom: A Critical Action Research Study, Alfred A.Z. Siha
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper discusses a critical action research study in a basic writing classroom, which made use of critical pedagogy as its theoretical framework, as it relates to one of the findings in relation to fostering writing competency and critical consciousness.
Transactional Distance In Moocs: A Critical Analysis Of Dialogue, Structure, And Learner Autonomy, Rick Shearer, Andrea Gregg, K. P. Joo, Kimberly Graham
Transactional Distance In Moocs: A Critical Analysis Of Dialogue, Structure, And Learner Autonomy, Rick Shearer, Andrea Gregg, K. P. Joo, Kimberly Graham
Adult Education Research Conference
Drawing upon a content analysis of students’ postings on CourseTalk.org, this study presents preliminary findings of analyzing transactional distance in xMOOCs in order to elucidate the educational exchange facilitated or restricted with reference to the three variables of transactional distance theory.
Adults Learning About Shale Gas Development: Information Sharing, Community Engagement, And Critical Science Literacy, Colleen Shaughnessy, Esther Prins, Margaret Hopkins
Adults Learning About Shale Gas Development: Information Sharing, Community Engagement, And Critical Science Literacy, Colleen Shaughnessy, Esther Prins, Margaret Hopkins
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines how rural adults in a non-formal education class on Marcellus Shale gas development developed and applied critical science literacy. Through expanding their scientific knowledge, adults shifted how they learned about and shared information with others, their relationship with science, and their self-perceptions as scientifically knowledgeable citizens.
Development Of Peer Educators Within Paraprofessional Community-Based Adult Education Models: An Experiential Learning Perspective, Megan M. Seibel, Rick D. Rudd
Development Of Peer Educators Within Paraprofessional Community-Based Adult Education Models: An Experiential Learning Perspective, Megan M. Seibel, Rick D. Rudd
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Research project of community-based nutrition education explored the conceptual and practical role of experience in paraprofessional educator models and focused on the situated, contextual experiences of paraprofessionals in the communities where they work and live as unique, challenging, and potentially positive for learning outcomes.
Understanding A Dialectical Materialist Chat Perspective On Social Movement Learning, Peter H. Sawchuk
Understanding A Dialectical Materialist Chat Perspective On Social Movement Learning, Peter H. Sawchuk
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper addresses adult social movement learning (SML) dynamics. Drawing on a specific dialectical materialist variation of a socio-cultural learning theory called Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) I explore findings from a large-scale research project in Toronto (Canada) called the Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning (APCOL). I offer some preliminary evidence for the importance of something referred to as “object-work/skill” for discerning differences in anti-poverty activist learning lives.
C.A.R.I.N.G: A Conceptual Model For Promoting Student Well-Being, Jeffrey A. Russell, Kellee R. Vess
C.A.R.I.N.G: A Conceptual Model For Promoting Student Well-Being, Jeffrey A. Russell, Kellee R. Vess
Adult Education Research Conference
From our own experiences as educators, we found that many college students seemed overwhelmed and stressed from a myriad of academic and personal responsibilities. The C.A.R.I.N.G. model provides a new lens for promoting student well-being through the utilization of adult learning principles.
Patients’ Mental Models And Adherence To Outpatient Physical Therapy Home Exercise Programs, Jon J. Rizzo, Alexandra Bell
Patients’ Mental Models And Adherence To Outpatient Physical Therapy Home Exercise Programs, Jon J. Rizzo, Alexandra Bell
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative study identified aspects of patients’ mental models that relate to adherence to physical therapy home exercise programs. The findings may guide clinicians in designing interventions that effectively promote adherence to home exercise programs, improving patient outcomes and reducing personal and societal costs of musculoskeletal disease.
Indonesian Pesantren And Community Social Change: Moderate Islam’S Use Of Media And Technology For Nonformal, Community-Based Education, Jeffrey A. Ritchey, Nurhaya Muchtar
Indonesian Pesantren And Community Social Change: Moderate Islam’S Use Of Media And Technology For Nonformal, Community-Based Education, Jeffrey A. Ritchey, Nurhaya Muchtar
Adult Education Research Conference
This study extends previous research, attempting to better understand pesantren (Indonesian, Islamic boarding schools) by examining factors facilitating the adoption and application of new media and technology in their broader, community-based educational initiatives.
Personal Skills And Personality Development In Project Management Training: As They Apply To Germany, Beatrix Palt
Personal Skills And Personality Development In Project Management Training: As They Apply To Germany, Beatrix Palt
Adult Education Research Conference
The discourse on the requirements for project managers is analyzed from the perspective of personality research and some implications for evolving a theory for developing project managers’ personality and for project management training are discussed.
Utilisation Of Media Technologies For Distance And Lifelong Education In Africa, Chris Olusola Omoregie
Utilisation Of Media Technologies For Distance And Lifelong Education In Africa, Chris Olusola Omoregie
Adult Education Research Conference
Media technologies of television, radio, computer and internet offer flexible and formidable facilities for open distance education and lifelong education for Africa. Yet benefits of these media in attaining goals of distance and lifelong education face challenges of policy issues and organisation.
The Academic Language Development Program: A Capacity-Building Approach To Supporting Secondary Teachers Of English Learners, Susan O'Hara, Robert Pritchard, Jeff Zwiers
The Academic Language Development Program: A Capacity-Building Approach To Supporting Secondary Teachers Of English Learners, Susan O'Hara, Robert Pritchard, Jeff Zwiers
Adult Education Research Conference
This study reports the results of the first phase of a multiyear project designed to develop a capacity-building, professional development model for teachers of English learners. Preliminary analyses show that teacher knowledge and use of appropriate instructional approaches improved, but challenges that still need to be addressed were identified.
Learning By Adoption: The International Adoption Experience Of Canadian And Dutch Adoptive Parents Of Children From The United States, Dana Naughton
Learning By Adoption: The International Adoption Experience Of Canadian And Dutch Adoptive Parents Of Children From The United States, Dana Naughton
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explores the international adoption experience of Dutch and Canadian adopters of U.S. born children through the lens of adult learning, adult education and lifelong learning.
Autoethnography As A Way To Foster Critical Thinking Skills For Academicians In Adult And Higher Education: A Queer (Asian) Crit Perspective And Example, Mitsunori Misawa
Autoethnography As A Way To Foster Critical Thinking Skills For Academicians In Adult And Higher Education: A Queer (Asian) Crit Perspective And Example, Mitsunori Misawa
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper will focus on how autoethnography helps adult educator foster critical thinking skills in adult and higher education and will address the following areas: autoethnography, critical thinking, and examples of the autoethnographic teaching methodology. This paper will conclude with some discussion and implications for implementing autoethnography in teaching adults.
Identifying And Understanding Cultural Differences In The Online Classroom, Karen L. Milheim, Christy B. Fraenza
Identifying And Understanding Cultural Differences In The Online Classroom, Karen L. Milheim, Christy B. Fraenza
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this study is to examine how online course instructors identify cultural differences among students in the classroom. In addition, the study explores how knowing students' cultural backgrounds and cultural norms can prepare instructors to facilitate among varied learning styles, values, and perceptions within a course. The findings lead to a better understanding of how instructors in online course settings can better identify and attend to the learning styles and needs of students in light of cultural differences.