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Eating Fire While Walking On Broken Glass: An Auto-Ethnography Of One Adult Educator's Tenure Process, Dianne Ramdeholl Jun 2016

Eating Fire While Walking On Broken Glass: An Auto-Ethnography Of One Adult Educator's Tenure Process, Dianne Ramdeholl

Adult Education Research Conference

This autoethnography documents the journey of one female academic of color through her tenure process, outlining the landmines embedded within the tenure process for women of color. It offers recommendations for new faculty of color.


Adult Entrances And Exits: What Does Retention Literature Inform Us About Urban Adult Higher Educational Participants And Student Success?, Debra Fenty, Jonathan Messemer, Elice Rogers Jun 2016

Adult Entrances And Exits: What Does Retention Literature Inform Us About Urban Adult Higher Educational Participants And Student Success?, Debra Fenty, Jonathan Messemer, Elice Rogers

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This research purpose, derived from a larger study shares findings which help explain retention and, success outcomes associated with Urban adult learners in a 4 year higher educational setting. A critical analysis of the literature reveals in retention, understanding barriers is a key indicator of an institution's effectiveness.


We Shall Not Be Moved: Adult Learners’ Intransigent Attitudes About Group Projects, Judy K. Favor, Mark Harvey Jan 2016

We Shall Not Be Moved: Adult Learners’ Intransigent Attitudes About Group Projects, Judy K. Favor, Mark Harvey

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This study explored the effectiveness of a structured group project planning process designed to improve accountability, communication, satisfaction, and attitudes about group projects with adult learners.


Ghost And The Machine: Bringing Untold Personal Spiritual And Cultural Experiences To Life Through The Medium Of Digital Storytelling., Ingrid Andersen, Elizabeth J. Tisdell Jan 2016

Ghost And The Machine: Bringing Untold Personal Spiritual And Cultural Experiences To Life Through The Medium Of Digital Storytelling., Ingrid Andersen, Elizabeth J. Tisdell

Adult Education Research Conference

This study examines learners’ perceptions of the experiences of transformation from the storytelling experience of digital stories within a graduate class on spirituality and culture, by means of the lenses of both transformative learning theory and storytelling theory.


Adult Learner Perceptions And Experiences In A Community College Engaged In Intensive Student Success Reforms, Susan J. Barcinas, Tracy A. Kachur, Duane Akroyd, Heidi N. Mccann, Yaxin Zheng Jan 2016

Adult Learner Perceptions And Experiences In A Community College Engaged In Intensive Student Success Reforms, Susan J. Barcinas, Tracy A. Kachur, Duane Akroyd, Heidi N. Mccann, Yaxin Zheng

Adult Education Research Conference

This qualitative study is based upon 200 hours of observation and 30 participant interviews aiming to deeply describe and analyze adult learner perceptions of community college intensive student success reform initiatives.


Using Spiral Dynamic Theory For Adult Civic Engagement Research And Social Justice Education, Lisa R. Brown Jan 2016

Using Spiral Dynamic Theory For Adult Civic Engagement Research And Social Justice Education, Lisa R. Brown

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Empirical civic engagement research based in a South American context. Participants included adult learner populations engaged in revolutionary protests that opposed private for-profit education in Chile. Findings were higher order Spiral Dynamic Theory thinking at the for-profits and lower civic engagement.


Adult Learning And Pragmatic Identity Theory, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Joseph Levitan Jan 2016

Adult Learning And Pragmatic Identity Theory, Davin J. Carr-Chellman, Joseph Levitan

Adult Education Research Conference

The interaction between identity and learning has been under theorized. American Pragmatism offers important insights into identity and learning. With new educational experiences, adults take on new identities. Pragmatic Identity Theory will be an analytical lens allowing us to better understand the identity negotiation within learning experiences.


Conscientization Through The Context Of A Book Club: Adults’ Experiences Of Consciousness-Raising, Rachel M. Cassity Jan 2016

Conscientization Through The Context Of A Book Club: Adults’ Experiences Of Consciousness-Raising, Rachel M. Cassity

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The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand the lived experiences of consciousness-raising for adults through the context of book clubs. Research about adult participation in book clubs remains scarce. Therefore, this study seeks to highlight how these contexts might promote adult learning and Conscientization.


The Career Advancement Experiences Of Female Faculty Of Color In Athletic Training Education Programs, Carrie Graham, Alexandra Bell Jan 2016

The Career Advancement Experiences Of Female Faculty Of Color In Athletic Training Education Programs, Carrie Graham, Alexandra Bell

Adult Education Research Conference

Healthcare professions are currently experiencing increased professional member diversity, necessitating an investigation of employee workplace experiences and career advancement. Yet, the rate of female faculty of color in athletic training education programs is inconsistent with athletic training membership diversity rates. This study explores their career advancement and mentoring experiences.


Millennial-Aged Adults Learning Online: Factors Impacting Academic Success, Sarah J. Herchel Jan 2016

Millennial-Aged Adults Learning Online: Factors Impacting Academic Success, Sarah J. Herchel

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This quantitative study of 118 Millennial-aged learners enrolled in online courses administers a pre and post survey to measure self-directed learning readiness, academic achievement, and other factors related to these variables.


Beyond Ngoization: Challenging Neoliberalism In A Chilean Trade Union School, John Holst, Maria Alicia Vetter Jan 2016

Beyond Ngoization: Challenging Neoliberalism In A Chilean Trade Union School, John Holst, Maria Alicia Vetter

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper presents the results of a descriptive case study of an NGO-based trade union school in Chile. The NGO is called the Alejandro Lipschutz Institute of Science (ICAL-Spanish acronym).


It's The Right Thing To Do: The Voices Of Seven White Culturally Responsive Professors Of Education, China M. Jenkins Jan 2016

It's The Right Thing To Do: The Voices Of Seven White Culturally Responsive Professors Of Education, China M. Jenkins

Adult Education Research Conference

This study explored the motivation of White educators to become culturally responsive, their processes of transformation and how they transformed self and pedagogy as a result.


“We’Re All On The Same Journey, But [Are Taking] Different Paths:” Relational Connection, Critical Consciousness And Visions Of Possibility Among Female Adult Literacy Learners, Jaye Jones Jan 2016

“We’Re All On The Same Journey, But [Are Taking] Different Paths:” Relational Connection, Critical Consciousness And Visions Of Possibility Among Female Adult Literacy Learners, Jaye Jones

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Women Reading for Education, Affinity & Development (WREAD) is a literacy-focused reading and discussion group for African American women with self-defined histories of trauma. The following paper focuses on the links between relational connections in the group and the development of a collective critical consciousness.


How Can We Know Each Other When We Are So Different? Untangling The Complexity Of Diverse Life Experience And Interconnection—A Model For Navigating The Paradox Of Diversity To Create Empathic Learning Space, Elizabeth S. Kasl, Lyle Yorks Jan 2016

How Can We Know Each Other When We Are So Different? Untangling The Complexity Of Diverse Life Experience And Interconnection—A Model For Navigating The Paradox Of Diversity To Create Empathic Learning Space, Elizabeth S. Kasl, Lyle Yorks

Adult Education Research Conference

We propose a model that describes how diversity, dialogue, emotion, and empathy interact in learning environments. The model provides guidance for addressing emotionally charged topics in highly diverse groups.


Everyday Workplace Learning For Immigrant Justice: Workers’ Collaboration In A Nonprofit Organization, Junghwan Kim, Sunyoung Park, Jieun You Jan 2016

Everyday Workplace Learning For Immigrant Justice: Workers’ Collaboration In A Nonprofit Organization, Junghwan Kim, Sunyoung Park, Jieun You

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this case study is to examine learning in the daily workplace of workers (staff members) at a leading community-based Korean-American nonprofit organization (KANPO) in a major city in the US. The study focused on the relationship among workers as a critical dimension for encouraging informal learning in the workplace. Third generation culturalhistorical activity theory, including activity system analysis, was used as a theoretical framework. Based on a theory-driven and grounded theoretical approach to data analysis, an activity named “collaboration” and its inner contradictions were identified. While the contradictions have the potential to inhibit workers’ everyday workplace learning, …


Applying The Intercultural Competency Learning Model To The Experiences Of Adult Educators Living And Working Abroad, Naomi Garcia Jan 2016

Applying The Intercultural Competency Learning Model To The Experiences Of Adult Educators Living And Working Abroad, Naomi Garcia

Adult Education Research Conference

This qualitative study examined the intercultural experiences of three adult educators who taught English in Istanbul, Turkey. Taylor’s (1994) learning model of becoming interculturally competent helped make sense of the learning processes of the intercultural experiences the participants shared and reflected on in this study.


Community Science Education: Critical Science Literacy And Community Engagement Related To Shale Gas Development, Esther Prins, Shannon Frey Jan 2016

Community Science Education: Critical Science Literacy And Community Engagement Related To Shale Gas Development, Esther Prins, Shannon Frey

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper examines how 48 adults in a non-formal education class on shale gas development in two rural counties expanded their scientific knowledge, developed critical science literacy, and applied what they learned in the course. The findings elucidate adults’ relationships with science and their self-perceptions as scientifically knowledgeable citizens.


Validation Of The Culturally Responsive Teaching Survey, Christy M. Rhodes Jan 2016

Validation Of The Culturally Responsive Teaching Survey, Christy M. Rhodes

Adult Education Research Conference

This investigation examined the psychometric properties of the Culturally Responsive Teaching Survey (CRTS), a newly-developed assessment that measures the cultural responsiveness of adult English language educators’ teaching practices. Findings from two studies revealed a uni-dimensional scale of appropriate internal consistency which yielded positive correlations with multi-cultural knowledge and teaching skills.


Online Faculty Development: What Works?, Anita Samuel Jan 2016

Online Faculty Development: What Works?, Anita Samuel

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study conducted with online faculty. Faculty talked about the training and support services they utilized and found most effective when teaching online.


Color-Conscious Paradigms Of Adult And Educational Leadership Development Through Culturally Relevant Mentoring: Africentricity, And Critical Spirituality Explored., Phillip A. Smith Jan 2016

Color-Conscious Paradigms Of Adult And Educational Leadership Development Through Culturally Relevant Mentoring: Africentricity, And Critical Spirituality Explored., Phillip A. Smith

Adult Education Research Conference

This conceptual paper draws on the indigenous wisdoms of the African Diaspora, and critical spirituality. It strives to formulate a new definition of culturally relevant mentoring for educational leadership development as applicable to the leadership development of Black male secondary school principals and other senior educational leaders.


Learning Through Uncertainty: A Phenomenological Study Of Older, Professional Men Coping With Involuntary Job Loss, Brian Hentz Jan 2016

Learning Through Uncertainty: A Phenomenological Study Of Older, Professional Men Coping With Involuntary Job Loss, Brian Hentz

Adult Education Research Conference

This phenomenological study explores how older, professional men coped adaptively with involuntary job loss, following the global financial crisis of 2008. Participants demonstrated skillful engagement, Stoic wisdom, narrative openness, and rugged interdependence to learn through the uncertainties that accompanied this unanticipated life transition.


"I Saw A Wrong And I Wanted To Stand Up For What I Thought Was Right:" A Narrative Study On Becoming A Breastfeeding Activist, Jennifer Pemberton Jan 2016

"I Saw A Wrong And I Wanted To Stand Up For What I Thought Was Right:" A Narrative Study On Becoming A Breastfeeding Activist, Jennifer Pemberton

Adult Education Research Conference

Breastfeeding women experience marginalization in a number of ways, such as sexualization of the body and systemic influences that make it difficult for mothers to successfully breastfeed. This narrative study investigates how breastfeeding women come to recognize this marginalization and the emancipatory learning process through which they become breastfeeding activists.


Uncovering Disney’S Pedagogy Of Classism In Their “Reality” Programming, Robin Redmon Wright Jan 2016

Uncovering Disney’S Pedagogy Of Classism In Their “Reality” Programming, Robin Redmon Wright

Adult Education Research Conference

Disney now saturates cable television with programs like Duck Dynasty, Swamp People, Lady Hoggers, and Appalachian Outlaws. These shows are actively promoting cultural myths that reinforce the neoliberal agenda that oppressed many adults with which we work. Our responsibility, then, is to expose those messages for what they are.


A Case Study Of Choices Of The Host University And Decisions To Stay Or Leave The U.S. Upon Graduation Of Chinese Adult And Traditional Students, Xi Lin, Hong Shi, Mingyu Huang Jan 2016

A Case Study Of Choices Of The Host University And Decisions To Stay Or Leave The U.S. Upon Graduation Of Chinese Adult And Traditional Students, Xi Lin, Hong Shi, Mingyu Huang

Adult Education Research Conference

Chinese students are the largest group among all the international students. Many factors motivate them to study in the U.S. and their decision to stay or leave the U.S. after graduation. However, limited research investigates these aspects by differentiating students into non-traditional students and traditional student groups. As a result, this study conducted individual interviews to examine: 1) factors that influence Chinese students’ (non-traditional students vs. traditional students) choices of the host college or university in the U.S.; and 2) their decisions to stay or leave the U.S. after graduation. Eleven Chinese students participated in this study, including seven female …


Paving The Way Toward Faculty Careers In Higher Education: Student Mentoring Relationship Experiences While Completing Doctoral Degrees Online, Norina Columbaro, Catherine A. Hansman Jan 2016

Paving The Way Toward Faculty Careers In Higher Education: Student Mentoring Relationship Experiences While Completing Doctoral Degrees Online, Norina Columbaro, Catherine A. Hansman

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this study was to explore the existence and nature of mentoring relationships within online doctoral degree programs. Further, it sought to determine how these relationships prepared online doctoral degree graduates for full-time, tenure-track employment in four-year, land-based higher education institutions.


Using Radical Adult Education To Map Change In A Globalized World, Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Amy Ward, Stephen Whikehart, Cathy Mullett, Jennifer Warrner, Heidi Burkett, Antonette Payne, Mary E. Borst Jan 2016

Using Radical Adult Education To Map Change In A Globalized World, Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Amy Ward, Stephen Whikehart, Cathy Mullett, Jennifer Warrner, Heidi Burkett, Antonette Payne, Mary E. Borst

Adult Education Research Conference

Radical adult education using a sociological frame can support adult educators to see their roles as change agents within their spheres of influence. Using cultural mapping, adult educators define these spheres, stake claims, set benchmarks, grow networks, or develop participatory action research within the identified community.


A Field In Search Of Theory And Respect: Ae In The Mid-20th Century, Catherine A. Hansman, Amy D. Rose Jan 2016

A Field In Search Of Theory And Respect: Ae In The Mid-20th Century, Catherine A. Hansman, Amy D. Rose

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the development of an adult education professoriate and adult education programs in higher education in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as to examine the development of AERC as a means to advance and enhance theoretical knowledge related to the field.


I'Ll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me: A Cyberethnography Of Pearl Jam Fan Communities, Peter Hornberger Jan 2016

I'Ll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me: A Cyberethnography Of Pearl Jam Fan Communities, Peter Hornberger

Adult Education Research Conference

This roundtable explores the learning processes of adult fans of the music group Pearl Jam and their potential development of critical consciousness. The confluence of popular culture, music, fan culture, and digital media that occurs within these fan spaces is rich for exploration of contemporary forms of critical public pedagogy.


The Role Of Transformative Learning In Fostering Identity Development Among Learners In Professional Education Programs Of Study, Elizabeth P. Marlowe, Teresa J. Carter Jan 2016

The Role Of Transformative Learning In Fostering Identity Development Among Learners In Professional Education Programs Of Study, Elizabeth P. Marlowe, Teresa J. Carter

Adult Education Research Conference

This roundtable discussion engages participants in exploring how professional identity develops for learners engaged in advanced professional education and how they experience the meaning of what it is to become a professional.


Discovering The Discourse Of Internet Political Memes, Brian Mcclure Jan 2016

Discovering The Discourse Of Internet Political Memes, Brian Mcclure

Adult Education Research Conference

With more adults engaging in political activity on social media sites such as Facebook, one popular form of communicating ideas--memes--has emerged. This form contributes to a particular discourse that has yet to be identified, examined, and clarified, the purpose of this paper.