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A Researcher And Activist In The Mexican Borderlands., Deborah W. Kilgore

Adult Education Research Conference

Dual roles of activist and researcher in a collective social movement highlight conflicting research needs for objectivity and subjectivity that may be reconciled through self-conscious critique. This was demonstrated during a study of a collective workers' rights movement on the U.S.-Mexico border in 1996.

Radical Pedagogy In Action: A Case Study Of A Chicano/A Autobiography Class., Jodi Jan Kaufmann

Adult Education Research Conference

This ethnographic case study explored, from the perspective of the participants, the instructional experience in an adult higher education ethnic literature course taught through the lens of radical pedagogy.

Participation And Retention Factors Relating To Black Reentry Graduate And Undergraduate Women In The College Of Education., Juantia Johnson-Bailey, Angela Humphrey Brown

Adult Education Research Conference

This qualitative study, which focused on participation and retention factors, examined the educational experiences of nine reentry Black women who were students at a predominately White research university. The research centered on extracting common themes and on identifying factors that influenced or hindered their educational tenure.

Antecedents Of Intercultural Adjustment Of American Expatriates In The People's Republic Of China., Hallet Hullinger, Robert Nolan

Adult Education Research Conference

A greater understanding of the antecedents of intercultural adjustment of Americans working in China can assist organizations in selecting, training and supporting employees who work in this country. Interviews with forty Americans and seven Chinese living in Beijing yielded seven categories of adjustment factors labeled as personality, expectations, prior overseas experience, motivation, language skills, intra- and intercultural relationships, preparation and training. Four categories could be classified as endogenous, that is originating within the person, and three could be considered exogenous, that is originating within the environment.

Identification Of The Workplace Basic Skills Necessary For Effective Job Performance By Entry-Level Workers In Small Businesses In Oklahoma., Gerald W. Harris

Adult Education Research Conference

A modified Delphi technique was used to identify the workplace basic skills needed by employees in small businesses employing 50 or fewer workers. Employers rated a list of 36 skills from the SCANS Report, in importance, on a scale from 1-little importance to 10-extreme importance. The ratings along with written comments and verbal responses to preplanned questions in phone interviews were used to determine if the SCANS skills could be validated for small businesses in Oklahoma.

The Mirror Within The Mirror: Reflections On Multiculturalism, Theory And Practice., Catherine A. Hansman, Sherwood E. Smith

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which adult education graduate students' perceptions of race, class, gender and sexual orientation were transformed by the end of graduate adult education courses which included readings, reflection, discussions and other activities designed to foster self-awareness, critical reflection and cultural sensitivity.

An Exploratory Study Of The Social And Personal Dynamics That Deter Underserved Women From Participating In Adult Education Activities., Abby G. Hall, Joe F. Donaldson

Adult Education Research Conference

This study explored the social and personal dynamics that deter underserved women from participating in formal adult education. From a grounded theory perspective, an inductive analysis revealed four integrated categories of deterrents that describe factors leading to nonparticipation (a) preadulthood factors; (b) patterns of nonsupport in adulthood; (c) conventional deterrents; and, (d) lack of "voice" in adulthood.

Taking It To Practice: Building A Critical Postmodern Theory Of Adult Learning Community., Andre P. Grace

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper considers research themes important to contemporary Canadian federal HRD (human resource development) policy, research, and experimentation. It takes up security, work, and learning concerns affecting today's citizen workers and learners and develops aspects of a critical postmodern theory of adult learning community.

Participant Perceptions Of Residential Learning., Jean Anderson Fleming

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper reviews findings from a study of participant perceptions of residential adult learning. Residential learning programs were defined as programs in which participants live and learn together, full-time, in the same location, for the full duration of their program.

Critical Thinking, Developmental Learning And Adaptive Flexibility In Organizational Leaders., Robert Duchesne

Adult Education Research Conference

Organizational leaders in today's global marketplace must continually make decisions, solve problems, and chart effective courses of action to ensure that their companies survive and flourish. The ability to think critically is essential for today's leaders, yet leaders are often unable to do so. This study examined how developmental learning and adaptive flexibility related to the level of critical thinking in a sample of organizational leaders. Results showed years of education to be the only significant predictor of critical thinking in the leaders studied. Adaptive flexibility scores indicate minimal levels of reflective observation suggesting automatization of decision-making. The factor analysis …

Researching Professional Practice: The Integrated Practice Perspectives Model And Continuing Education., Joe F. Donaldson, Gary W. Kuhne

Adult Education Research Conference

The "Integrated Practice Perspectives" model reframes previous efforts to link education with professional practice by using theories of situated cognition and learning. Reframing allows other variables in professional performance to be identified, performance to be more thoroughly linked to social and cultural contexts, and a more integrative and deeper conceptualization of professional practice and context to be developed.

Orchestration Of Learning Style Differences And Other Variables In An Action Learning Experience., Robert L. Dilworth

Adult Education Research Conference

Research centered on 31 students who participated in a two-week International Action Learning Seminar in Salford, England. International participants were assigned to action learning sets on the basis of several variables. Composition of sets (six to seven individuals) was purposely mixed to enhance diversity and promote learning.

Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania's Ged Graduates Progress., Gary J. Dean

Adult Education Research Conference

A follow-up study of 3,099 GED graduates in Pennsylvania from 1974 through 1994 was conducted to identify changes in employment characteristics, living arrangements, and income, as well as preparation for the GED, further education, and outcomes of passing the GED. All findings indicated that GED graduates perceived obtaining the GED as extremely beneficial.

Creating Mosaics: The Interrelationships Between Knowledge And Context., Barbara J. Daley

Adult Education Research Conference

This qualitative study analyzed the interrelationships between knowledge gained in continuing education programs and the context in which professionals practice. Findings indicate that the process of constructing a knowledge base was affected by the structural, human resources, political and symbolic frames of the context of practice.

Learning Within A Social Movement: The Chicago African-American Experience., Phyllis Cunningham, Regina Curry

Adult Education Research Conference

A study of the Empowerment Zone in which over one thousand poor residents mobilized to learn, create knowledge, and formulate a plan to reinvent government and alleviate poverty.

Learning Strategies In The Corporate Setting., Gary J. Conti, Rita C. Kolody, Bobby Schneider

Adult Education Research Conference

The learning strategies of financial planners with American Express were assessed with SKILLS. Results with this group of professionals confirm the distinct learning strategy groups uncovered in previous learning strategy research.

The Measurement Of Participation In Adult Education., Mary A. Collins, J. Michael Brick, Kwang Kim

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper examines the disparate rates of participation in adult education that have been reported by the Current Population Survey and the National Household Education Survey. The authors examine issues including population coverage and sampling, survey nonresponse, the use of proxy respondents, and survey context effects.

Women's Experience Of Academic Collaboration., Carolyn M. Clark, Denise B. Watson

Adult Education Research Conference

This study examines the experience of collaboration for women academics in adult education. While the women describe a range of collaborative experiences, they place the greatest value on more complex forms of collaboration in which the self, the partner(s), and the work exist in a highly dynamic and interactive relationship. This study suggests that collaboration provides one way in which women are creating life-giving spaces for themselves within the masculinist culture of the academy.

The Myth Of The Universal Adult Educator: A Literature Review., Angela Humphrey Brown

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper critically evaluates the adult education literature with respect to how it deals with the race and the gender of the teachers as a factor in the teaching-learning environment. The mainstream literature perpetuates the myth of the universal teacher while the narratives of African American women transcend the myth.

Narratives Of Women's Sexual Identity Development: A Collaborative Inquiry With Implications For Rewriting Transformative Learning Theory., Ann K. Brooks, Kathleen Edwards

Adult Education Research Conference

Transformative learning theory has attended primarily to cognition and our capacity to understand experience in terms of increasingly inclusive, discriminating, permeable, and integrative perspectives (Mezirow, 1991). However, it does not allow for an understanding of the intersubjective nature of meaning-making, nor does it address the workings of oppression or how learning occurs in relation to oppression. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to rewrite transformative learning to allow us to theorize the integration of the individual with the socio-historical and to enable the understanding of the relationship between individuals and social change.

Theoretical Perspectives On Preventing Fishing Vessel Accidents., Roger Boshier

Adult Education Research Conference

Despite the availability of new technologies, fishing vessels come to grief far too often. Prevention education is excessively functionalist and not sufficiently focused on human factors. The author interrogates the problem from contrasting theoretical perspectives and claims prevention educators should embrace subjective as well as objectivist ontologies and place power relations at the centre, not on the margins, of their efforts.

Executive Businesswomen's Learning In The Context Of Organizational Culture., Laura L. Bierema

Adult Education Research Conference

Case study analysis was used to investigate executive women's learning and development in corporate culture. Eleven executives were interviewed. A model of their development is proposed, detailing their learning tactics, negotiation strategies and transition characteristics over the course of their career development.

Developing White Consciousness Through A Transformative Learning Process., Carole Barlas

Adult Education Research Conference

This qualitative case study sought to examine a process of group learning in which individuals and group experienced a transformative change in consciousness about white privilege. This study resulted in understanding one process for expanding capacities for continued transformational learning.

Imprisoned Bodies - Free Minds: Incarcerated Women And Liberatory Learning., Irene C. Baird

Adult Education Research Conference

Using women's literature as a medium for self-exploration for self-awareness, incarcerated women learn to free their minds from their limiting situation. Examining the model through prison, Freirian, feminist methodologies affirms its significance/effectiveness as the essential first step for saying things differently, for liberation from oppression.

Towards Fin De Siecle: A Time To Revision Durkheim's Sociology Of Education?, Paul Armstrong

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper builds on earlier work on values and ethics that argued the need to re-vision the ideas of Emile Durkheim, by suggesting that the argument is supported by the notion of fin de siecle, which implies that the challenges of post-modernity are by no means new, and that there is evidence of a patter or even a cycle that would seem to re-appear at the end of each century. Approaching the 21st century and the millennium, the notion of fin de siecle has additional significance. But is it merely a matter of history repeating itself? And is this important …

The Politics Of Planning Culturally Relevant Aids Education For African-American Women., Elaine Archie-Booker

Adult Education Research Conference

AIDS cases are growing faster among African-American women than for any other ethnicity-gender group. Until a vaccine or cure is available, education offers the primary means to control education. In this paper, I examine a community-based AIDS education provider to determine to what extent were their programs culturally relevant for African-American women.

Perceptions Of African-American Males Regarding Factors Supporting Doctoral Completion In Colleges Of Education, William Respress

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The primary purpose of the study was to examine what institutional factors most influenced the decision of African-American male doctoral scholars to persist unto graduation. The literature review showed mentoring, institutional climate, race relations, and social adjustment as key factors in persistence of minorities in graduate studies. An objective specific to the study was to explore the cumulative outcomes that mentoring, social adjustment, institutional climate, and race relations have upon persistence. The population included scholars at both Predominantly White Colleges (PWIs) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) throughout the United States in Colleges of Education. One hundred sixty-four scholars …

Differential Effects Of Single-Sex Versus Coed Education On The Mathematical Reasoning Ability, Verbal Reasoning Ability, And Self-Concept Of Highschool Girls, Kevin E. Conway

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study explored the differential effects of single-sex versus coed education on the cognitive and affective development of young women in senior year of high school. The basic research question was: What are the differential effects of single-sex versus coed education on the development of mathematical reasoning ability, verbal reasoning ability, or self-concept of high school girls?

This study was composed of two parts. In the first part, the SAT verbal and mathematical ability scores were recorded for those subjects in the two schools from which the sample populations were drawn. The second part of the study required the application …

The Effect Of Group Counseling On The Self-Esteem, Attendance, And Counselor Utilization Of Inmigrant Hispanic Limited English Proficient Secondary Students, Ivette Armand Covert

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As the population of the United States becomes more diverse and the immigrant Hispanic, limited English proficient (LEP) school age population continues to grow, understanding and addressing the needs of these students becomes a pressing question. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of group counseling, by a bilingual counselor, on the self- esteem, attendance and counselor utilization of Hispanic LEP high school students. The design for this study was a quasi-experimental design. The experimental and control groups consisted of one class from each of the four levels of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), I-IV. …

A Comparative Analysis Of Scientific Research Administrators Leadership Practices In Public And Private Universities, Amin Muhammad

Dissertations (Pre-2016)

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