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Radical Questioning On The Long Walk To Freedom: Nelson Mandela And The Practice Of Critical Reflection, Stephen Brookfield
Radical Questioning On The Long Walk To Freedom: Nelson Mandela And The Practice Of Critical Reflection, Stephen Brookfield
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines the autobiography of Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom. Using a formulation of critical reflection as the deliberate uncovering and challenging of assumptions concerning power and hegemony, Long Walk to Freedom is subjected to a thematic content analysis using the analytical heuristic of critical reflection.
Cultural Capital And Its Impact On The Career Experiences Of African American Managers, Trammell L. Bristol
Cultural Capital And Its Impact On The Career Experiences Of African American Managers, Trammell L. Bristol
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This paper summarizes the result of a qualitative study where the purpose was to explore the factors which facilitated the career development of African American managers. Based on these findings, recommendations for practice are suggested in HRD and adult education.
“Our Hopes And Dreams Enrich Its Every Corner” : Adult Education With An Africentric Focus, Susan M. Brigham
“Our Hopes And Dreams Enrich Its Every Corner” : Adult Education With An Africentric Focus, Susan M. Brigham
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This paper addresses the ways in which Africentricity contributes to adult education’s goal of creating a socially just world and specifically to a graduate adult education/lifelong learning degree program within a Nova Scotian university context.
We’Re Here, You Just Don’T Know How To Reach Us: Conducting Research With Citizens On The Socio-Economic Margins, M. Tanya Brann-Barrett
We’Re Here, You Just Don’T Know How To Reach Us: Conducting Research With Citizens On The Socio-Economic Margins, M. Tanya Brann-Barrett
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In this paper, methodological challenges that emerged when conducting research with socially and economically disadvantaged young adults in a semi-rural community are examined. Recruitment and retention issues related to ethics protocols, trust, and economic disadvantage are addressed. Strategies governing bodies can employ to support research with difficult to reach populations are suggested.
Re-Situating Ourselves: Learning From Community Organizations’ Stories Of Conflict, Challenge And Failure, Susan J. Bracken
Re-Situating Ourselves: Learning From Community Organizations’ Stories Of Conflict, Challenge And Failure, Susan J. Bracken
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This paper presents a preliminary framework for examining a feminist community group’s day to day conflicts, challenges and practical dilemmas, labeled as doublebinds. The research identifies the most commonly experienced dilemmas within a feminist community organization. It then discusses observed coping strategies of selection, vacillation, and source splitting.
Conducting Qualitative Research On Race, Lorenzo Bowman
Conducting Qualitative Research On Race, Lorenzo Bowman
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The “race-of-interviewer” effect is well documented in the research literature. Research designs that seek to control for these effects do not eliminate other methodological issues such as the impact of social desirability on the responses of White participants, and interviewer-respondent rapport among Black participants.
The Dimensions Of Black Women’S Learning In The Environmental Justice Movement In The Southeastern U.S., Tuere A. Bowles
The Dimensions Of Black Women’S Learning In The Environmental Justice Movement In The Southeastern U.S., Tuere A. Bowles
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This qualitative research study explored black women’s learning in social action. Data analysis revealed that black women's informal learning in the environmental justice movement, specifically, is shaped by: mentoring relationships, individual and collective experiences, and intergenerational learning.
Tracing Hrd’S Rational Masculine Roots: Feminist Alternatives For A More Mindful Hrd, Laura L. Bierema, Julia Storberg-Walker
Tracing Hrd’S Rational Masculine Roots: Feminist Alternatives For A More Mindful Hrd, Laura L. Bierema, Julia Storberg-Walker
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A classic management text was deconstructed using postmodern methods to illuminate the connections between knowledge and gender. A similar analysis was performed on a selected contemporary HRD course text in order to examine how issues related to performance and gender were being addressed.
Gay Men At Midlife And Adult Learning: An Uneasy Truce With Heteronormativity, Thomas V. Bettinger
Gay Men At Midlife And Adult Learning: An Uneasy Truce With Heteronormativity, Thomas V. Bettinger
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Thirteen gay men between the ages of 40 and 60 relate stories of their lived experiences, demonstrating both adherence and resistance to heteronormative societal expectations regarding aging gay men. Their stories have implications for adult development and adult education, two fields in which this group has largely been ignored.
Cultural Components Of Technology And Its Implications For Adult Education, Jim Berger
Cultural Components Of Technology And Its Implications For Adult Education, Jim Berger
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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.
How An Intranet Provides Opportunities For Learning Organizational Culture, Elisabeth E. Bennett
How An Intranet Provides Opportunities For Learning Organizational Culture, Elisabeth E. Bennett
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This paper discusses a qualitative case study that addressed how an intranet can provide opportunities for learning about an organization’s culture. Four primary findings are discussed with the study concluding that cultural knowledge is conveyed and renewed through intranet in the learning process.
Discovery And Change: Themes Of Mental Model Development Among Successful New Farmers, Sandy Bell
Discovery And Change: Themes Of Mental Model Development Among Successful New Farmers, Sandy Bell
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This study explored how a group of farmers developed their mental models of farming. Two themes emerged from the data: (a) Discovery learning plays an important role in model development; (b) When a mental model serves as a barrier to learning an activating event may be necessary for model transformation.
Observing Silence, Paul Armstrong
Observing Silence, Paul Armstrong
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The interpretation of silence depends on meanings that are negotiated in a particular social and cultural location, or place and space. Silence is an under-theorized and under-researched aspect of adult learning. The complexities and salience of silence in teaching and learning, methodological issues around observing and researching silence are explored.
“I Don’T Know The Secret Handshake”: Making Social Class Visible In A Learning Context, Michelle Anderson, Jackie Taylor, Mary Ziegler
“I Don’T Know The Secret Handshake”: Making Social Class Visible In A Learning Context, Michelle Anderson, Jackie Taylor, Mary Ziegler
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This phenomenological study focused on the lived experience of being a mature adult pursuing a doctoral degree and having a working class background. Findings illuminate the persistent influence of social class on educational experience and the implications for adult education.
Outside The Circle: A Case Study Ofvolunteer Activities Of Adultswith Low Literacy Skills, Donna Anderson, Allan Quigley
Outside The Circle: A Case Study Ofvolunteer Activities Of Adultswith Low Literacy Skills, Donna Anderson, Allan Quigley
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This study of volunteer activities among 21 adults with low literacy skills in a social assistance program in Nova Scotia revealed attitudes and motivations relating to volunteerism among program recipients, as well as the six employment support workers who counselled them. Findings indicated that the definitions and understandings of “volunteerism” do not include “informal” volunteerism and client’s non-traditional volunteerism was ultimately discouraged by the counsellors, leading clients to slowly disengage from their community over time.
Neoliberal Welfare Reform, Poverty And Adult Education: Identifying The Problem And Engaging In Resistance, Mary Alfred, Shauna Butterwick, Catherine Hansman, Jenny Sandlin
Neoliberal Welfare Reform, Poverty And Adult Education: Identifying The Problem And Engaging In Resistance, Mary Alfred, Shauna Butterwick, Catherine Hansman, Jenny Sandlin
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This symposium explores the foundation of neoliberal ideology which has been central to the reform of welfare and adult education policies programs and the increase in poverty and oppression. We outline of an alternative vision, informed by a feminist social justice orientation
Globalization And The Internationalization Of Adult And Higher Education: Challenges And Opportunities For Canada And The United States, Mary V. Alfred, Shibao Guo
Globalization And The Internationalization Of Adult And Higher Education: Challenges And Opportunities For Canada And The United States, Mary V. Alfred, Shibao Guo
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The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which adult higher education in Canada and the US was responding to the impact of globalization through the internationalization of research, curricular, and practice. Adult educators must be more deliberate in planning for a global civil society.