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Graduate Students Of Color: A Storied Path To The Professoriate, Kathy D. Lohr, Audrey J. Jaeger
Graduate Students Of Color: A Storied Path To The Professoriate, Kathy D. Lohr, Audrey J. Jaeger
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This article shares the knowledge we gained from the stories of graduate students of color as they discussed their career choices. It provides an emerging understanding of how a graduate student’s background and cultural values influence his or her decision to pursue a faculty career.
Probing The Icebergs Of Workplace Learning: Findings Of The 1998, 2004 And 2010 Surveys Of Work And Lifelong Learning1, D.W. Livingstone
Probing The Icebergs Of Workplace Learning: Findings Of The 1998, 2004 And 2010 Surveys Of Work And Lifelong Learning1, D.W. Livingstone
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This paper draws on the findings of recent national surveys of paid and unpaid work as well as formal and informal learning to assess the extent of correspondence between work and learning activities in Canada. The main conclusion is that workers’ learning efforts increasingly exceed the requirements of their paid jobs. We live in a knowledge-rich society but with relatively diminishing opportunities to apply this knowledge in our jobs.
Older Adults’ Motivation To Learn In Higher Education, Lin Yi-Yin
Older Adults’ Motivation To Learn In Higher Education, Lin Yi-Yin
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A limited amount of literature has discussed older adults in formal education, especially their motivations to learn in higher education. This study aims to understand older adults’ learning in the context of higher education. Specifically, this study argues that higher education can function as a stimulating learning environment that helps older adults meet their late-life development needs and can lead them toward a meaningful and positive aging experience.
The Meaning Of ‘Being Literate’ In The Case Of Adult Literacy Learners In Korea, Jihye Lee
The Meaning Of ‘Being Literate’ In The Case Of Adult Literacy Learners In Korea, Jihye Lee
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This study examines the meaning of ‘being literate’ along with focusing on the relationship with formal education in Korea. For the purpose of this study, adult literacy learners wrote 1,673 articles and they were also analyzed. As a result, the demand for having formal education experience limits and influences the motivation, educational process, and meaning of being literate for adult literacy learners in Korea.
A Transformative Dance Through “Language Mountains” And “Blind Spots”: Park Educators Learn Responsiveness To Immigrant Newcomers, Elizabeth Lange, Peter Vogels, Zenobia Jamal
A Transformative Dance Through “Language Mountains” And “Blind Spots”: Park Educators Learn Responsiveness To Immigrant Newcomers, Elizabeth Lange, Peter Vogels, Zenobia Jamal
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This paper describes a project Learning Language, Learning the Land, created to enhance park accessibility and social belonging for immigrant newcomers by combining language learning and environmental literacy in a city park and provincial park setting. This paper reports on the dialectics of transformative learning for parks staff as they discovered the inappropriateness of didactic methods and how effective adult learning emerges from rapport, educational responsiveness and ethnocultural knowledge. Second, through informal learning, staff became allies in these traditionally white, middle class spaces, helping build a sense of place and social belonging.
Failing To Read Well: The Role Of Public Libraries In Adult Literacy, Immigrant Community Building, And Free Access To Learning, Luis Kong
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This study explores the impact library literacy programs have in the development of immigrant community engagement. Public libraries services are essential to the social, cultural, and economic development of rapidly expanding ethnic communities. A library’s adult literacy programs play an important role in reaching new Americans and expanding their participation in society. Through learner-centered instruction, these programs provide opportunities for advancement and integration. The dialogic exchange among learners promotes reciprocal teaching, and enriches their voices as they link what they learn to what is relevant in their lives. This study concludes with strategies to successfully bridge immigrant transition to become …
Basis Of Learning In Urban Communities: Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (Chat) And The Limits Of Contemporary Adult Learning Theories, Junghwan Kim, Intak Kwon
Basis Of Learning In Urban Communities: Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (Chat) And The Limits Of Contemporary Adult Learning Theories, Junghwan Kim, Intak Kwon
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The purpose of this paper is to examine CHAT as an alternative approach to understanding learning in urban communities as a means to overcome the challenges of existing adult learning theories. The authors argue that CHAT provides a comprehensive theoretical view to understand learning in urban communities driven from activities within socio-cultural contexts.
Methodological Challenges In Studying Transformative Learning, Seon Joo Kim, Sharan B. Merriam
Methodological Challenges In Studying Transformative Learning, Seon Joo Kim, Sharan B. Merriam
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First discussed are philosophical perspectives in relation to the research design and methodology for studying transformative learning. Second, several promising research designs for studying this phenomenon are reviewed including narrative analysis, arts-based research, critical approaches, and action research. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of methodological challenges at this point in the evolution of the knowledge base of transformative learning.
Transformative Professional Development In Unlikely Places: Twitter As A Virtual Learning Community, Kathleen P. King
Transformative Professional Development In Unlikely Places: Twitter As A Virtual Learning Community, Kathleen P. King
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This case study reveals new dimensions of transformative learning occurring through informal learning opportunities. The research results demonstrate that the individual’s learning spans understanding, networking, professional identity development, and transformative learning. Specifically, virtual online communities facilitated through social media provide professional networks and social relationships beyond the scope of the individual’s usual interactions and experience. Discussion and recommendations include using social media and virtual communities as instructional strategies for graduate studies and continued learning beyond formal education. The educational significance includes facilitating transformative learning in informal learning contexts, and using social media and online communities for professional learning.
‘Unexpected’ Mentoring Moments Experienced Through Dialogue With Elder Colleagues1, Colleen Kawalilak
‘Unexpected’ Mentoring Moments Experienced Through Dialogue With Elder Colleagues1, Colleen Kawalilak
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This autoethnography focuses on the author’s experience of being unexpectedly mentored by senior/Elder faculty members throughout her learning journey as an undergraduate and graduate student, and as a developing academic and researcher. Now, an associate professor, conducting research on tacit knowledge acquired, over an extended period of time by Elder faculty members in university settings, the author reflects on the significance of unexpected mentoring moments experienced along her own circuitous adult learning pathway.
Convergence Or Divergence Of Continuing Vocational Training In Europe? Empirical Findings And Theoretical Conclusions For Adult Education, Bernd Kapplinger
Convergence Or Divergence Of Continuing Vocational Training In Europe? Empirical Findings And Theoretical Conclusions For Adult Education, Bernd Kapplinger
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The paper describes trends of convergence and divergence in enterprise-provided continuing vocational training in Europe between 1999 and 2005. Based on the survey CVTS, the indicators for courses incidence, access, intensity, direct costs and the indicator learning at the workplace will be analyzed. The paper concludes with an outlook with references to sketches of an educational theory to be written for this field of adult education.
Learning Lives With/In Digital Media: Emergence Of Online Economy Disputants In The Midst Of Economic Crisis In South Korea, Dae Joong Kang, Seon Joo Choi, Seunghyeop Lee
Learning Lives With/In Digital Media: Emergence Of Online Economy Disputants In The Midst Of Economic Crisis In South Korea, Dae Joong Kang, Seon Joo Choi, Seunghyeop Lee
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This study aims to understand adult online informal learning illuminating a way of becoming an influential social figure. We interviewed five famous online economy disputants whose postings were very popular in Korea during the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. We explored how they learned and found that their self-directedness interplayed with the context of other- directedness, a sense of being stimulated and indebted enhanced their learning process, and dynamics of anonymity and social recognition were keys to their emergence.
Watch, Learn And Become: How Undergraduate Nursing And Medical Students Make Sense Of Cultural Representations Of Their Professions, Kaela Jubas, Patricia Knutson, Kerry Mcarthur
Watch, Learn And Become: How Undergraduate Nursing And Medical Students Make Sense Of Cultural Representations Of Their Professions, Kaela Jubas, Patricia Knutson, Kerry Mcarthur
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This paper discusses preliminary findings of a study exploring the pedagogical functions of pop culture. We use Grey’s Anatomy and Scrubs to explore cultural portrayals of and messages about work-related learning with undergraduate medical and nursing students. Thematically, our analysis emphasizes learning about identity, ethics and pedagogy.
Banned From The Discourse: Race To The Top And The State Of Texas’ Exclusion Of Welfare Recipients From Educational Policy Discourse, Michelle Johnson
Banned From The Discourse: Race To The Top And The State Of Texas’ Exclusion Of Welfare Recipients From Educational Policy Discourse, Michelle Johnson
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This paper explores the tensions that exist between the espoused purpose of Race to the Top education reform and the state of Texas educational plans to enhance the state’s economy through increased education. We use Fairclough’s (1995) critical discourse analysis (CDA) as the basis of our analytical framework.
Peripheral Vision: Exploring Newcomers’ Perceptions Of Their Teacher- Learner Relationships In A Medical Community Of Practice, Jodi Jarecke
Peripheral Vision: Exploring Newcomers’ Perceptions Of Their Teacher- Learner Relationships In A Medical Community Of Practice, Jodi Jarecke
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The purpose of this study was to explore third-year medical students’ perceptions of their teacher-learner relationships with their clinical educators.
Transformative Learning With Women: A Critical Review Proposing Linkages For The Personal And Political Spheres*, Catherine J. Irving, Leona M. English
Transformative Learning With Women: A Critical Review Proposing Linkages For The Personal And Political Spheres*, Catherine J. Irving, Leona M. English
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Theoretical developments in the field of transformative learning have progressed significantly over the past two decades, yet little attention has been paid to women’s experiences of transformative learning and to the issues of race, class and gender in this learning. We explore the apparent hesitation at both the personal and political ends of the transformative learning spectrum, and help to create alliances and strengthen the theory.
Characteristics Beyond In/Formality Of Ways Of Learning For Work: A Case Of Knowledge-Intense, Geographically-Distributed Learning, Carrie P. Hunter
Characteristics Beyond In/Formality Of Ways Of Learning For Work: A Case Of Knowledge-Intense, Geographically-Distributed Learning, Carrie P. Hunter
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Pharmaceutical-sales is a knowledge-intense, highly competitive and rapidly changing industry employing a geographically distributed workforce. The varied ways in which agents in this industry continue to learn for work are presented and examined. A framework is developed and employed for exploring and reporting fundamental characteristics of ways of learning beyond designation of in/formality. Findings include the importance of peer-learning for non-co-located peers, the identification of intentional incidental learning, and a non-traditional role for workplace learning in a knowledge-intense and competitive environment.
Adult Education, Globalisation And Inequality In South Africa. Searching For New Analytical Frameworks, Zelda Groener
Adult Education, Globalisation And Inequality In South Africa. Searching For New Analytical Frameworks, Zelda Groener
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Researchers have reported recently that inequalities emerging under conditions of globalisation are creating barriers to participation in adult learning. According to some studies, South Africa has become the most unequal society in the world. Structural inequalities in South African present an opportunity to develop a socio-political perspective to explain how structural inequalities create structural institutional barriers which prohibit black people from participating in adult learning, and to analyse the extent to which these barriers have been addressed. The South African state faces the challenge of creating more fundamental change to address persisting inequalities and barriers to participation in adult learning.
Resisting Dominant Narratives Of Gender Roles: Lesbian Leaders In Organizational Contexts And Implications For Adult Education, Julie Gedro
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The purpose of this qualitative research project is to learn about the experiences of lesbians who are in top level leadership positions in corporate and organizational America, in order to acquire insights about how lesbians learn to resist the dominant narrative of heterosexuality and male role stereotypes. The theoretical framework of this study is a multi-disciplinary, including psychology, sociology, leadership, and queer theory.
The Social Realities Of Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Women And The Broader Implications For Adult Educators, San Juanita Garcia
The Social Realities Of Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Women And The Broader Implications For Adult Educators, San Juanita Garcia
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This study highlights the critical realities Mexican undocumented immigrant women face in an anti-immigrant environment. Based on thirty face- to-face interviews with unauthorized Mexican immigrant women in Houston, Texas, a traditional gateway city, this study aims to explore the significance and reality that undocumented Mexican immigrant women endure in their everyday lives in an anti-immigrant climate and how this impacts depression symptomatology. I describe detailed narratives of three factors and their association to symptoms of depression among my participants. The findings provide recommendations for future research and implications for adult educators who teach vulnerable populations.
Temporary Foreign Workers In Nursing: Disposable Workers?, Jason Foster, Alison Taylor
Temporary Foreign Workers In Nursing: Disposable Workers?, Jason Foster, Alison Taylor
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This paper explores the experiences of Temporary Foreign Workers in health care in Alberta by examining a cohort of internationally-educated nurses hired to alleviate shortages. In particular it evaluates the assessment of foreign credentials and processes that followed. Drawing on social closure theories, we look at the experiences of foreign workers whose employment and residency status are extremely precarious. We suggest the use of temporary workers to address ‘short term’ labour demand has implications for the workers themselves as well as for larger political, social and economic contexts.
Inclusion And Effectiveness In Adult Education And Orientation In Less Developed Countries: Case Study Of Cameroon, Tandgyie Evani, Edmond Biloa, Sonny Roland Balinga
Inclusion And Effectiveness In Adult Education And Orientation In Less Developed Countries: Case Study Of Cameroon, Tandgyie Evani, Edmond Biloa, Sonny Roland Balinga
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Concepts of Adult education and orientation remain conspicuously absent in the curriculum at all levels of education in Cameroon. This situation has obscured the understanding of complex efforts on connecting adult education to the increasing adoption of a widening range of educational services and mechanisms that would lead to more effective and adequate results .This paper sets to redefine adult education through the lens of Less Developed Countries (LDCs) in general and the Cameroon context in particular. The paper equally underscores the pertinence of the implementation of a twin-track scholarly and community approaches to speed up development in LDCs.
The State, The People, And The Colony: Towards A Critical History Of Early Newfoundland Literacy, Leona M. English
The State, The People, And The Colony: Towards A Critical History Of Early Newfoundland Literacy, Leona M. English
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Adult literacy in nineteenth century Newfoundland was greatly influenced by the island’s positioning, first as a colony of Britain, and later as a struggling country dependent on experts, pedagogical methods and philanthropy from the home country and its religious institutions. Literacy efforts contributed to the general “civilizing” of the outpost and enabled it to become increasingly self reliant, at least for select periods of time. This study analyses some of these early literacy efforts, asking critical questions of colonialism, organization, gender, and religion.
Consuming My Way Gay An Autoethnographic Account Of Coming Out As Consumptive Pedagogy, Matthew A. Eichler
Consuming My Way Gay An Autoethnographic Account Of Coming Out As Consumptive Pedagogy, Matthew A. Eichler
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As LGBTQ people “come out”, one of the critical ways they learn about what it means to develop an LGBTQ identity is through consumptive acculturation. This autoethnographic account of a white, middle-class, gay man learning to consume gay is presented in three vignettes: the gay bar as marketplace, the use of material goods as signifier of sexual orientation, and the online marketplace of gay relationships.
Looking Within: An Examination Of African American Mental Models Of Museums, Dana Dudzinska-Przesmitzki, Robin S. Grenier
Looking Within: An Examination Of African American Mental Models Of Museums, Dana Dudzinska-Przesmitzki, Robin S. Grenier
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Little is known about African Americans’ mental of museums. This dearth of knowledge limits adult education scholars’ understanding of the educational needs and wants of African Americans in museum contexts. To address this gap, we conducted an interpretive qualitative study examining eight African Americans’ mental models of museums. Three themes emerged from the data. Implications and recommendations for scholars and museums are discussed.
‘Log’ Kyakahengey?! (What Will ‘People’ Say?!): Complicating Sexuality And Empowerment With Community Development Workers In Pakistan, Shama Dossa
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Situated in the postcolonial modernizing discourse of development, empowerment narratives tend to present sexuality as a secondary issue and a private affair one in which ‘development should keep an appropriate distance’ with the exception of helping to reduce unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. This work is presented as a series of journal entries. Through the use of prose and creative writing my participants and I begin to complicate our own understandings of sexuality and empowerment in context. I conclude that the insistence to complicate and situate such messy understandings in specific contexts is important for adult educators to move …
A Transformative Learning Perspective On Workplace Safety, R. Bruce Dodge
A Transformative Learning Perspective On Workplace Safety, R. Bruce Dodge
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Workplace injuries and illness are a problem of epidemic proportion yet safe workplaces can be created. Using the lens of transformative learning this case study, informed by ethnography, examined the experience of a long term seniors’ living facility which had dramatically reduced injury rates and costs. The study sought to understand the apparent perspective transformation of senior leaders and how that change impacted the organization. Disorienting dilemmas, discourse and critical reflection were seen as contributing to a new frame of reference which guided the actions of leaders.
Unfolding The Adult Literacy Regime, Richard Darville
Unfolding The Adult Literacy Regime, Richard Darville
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A quarter-century’s development of a regime that promotes and regulates adult literacy has diminished the space for responsive and relational literacy work. Many institutional processes – in media, transnational policy- making, survey-based knowledge, and governmental regulation – are tied together in this development. Mapping their connections allows a better understanding of this development than does ideological critique.
Participatory Action Research And Anti-Poverty Community Organizing: Methodological Considerations And Preliminary Findings, Ashleigh Dalton, Israt Ahmed, Joseph E. Sawan
Participatory Action Research And Anti-Poverty Community Organizing: Methodological Considerations And Preliminary Findings, Ashleigh Dalton, Israt Ahmed, Joseph E. Sawan
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The Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning project is working toward building and integrating city-wide anti-poverty efforts. This paper examines the use of a Participatory Action Research framework for undertaking a quantitative survey and qualitative case study. It presents and analyzes the role of community/university collaboration, the nature of participation, and the outcomes in terms of actions and learning. Through the findings and reflections emerging from this project, the paper discusses key questions about participatory approaches in the studies of community organizing and implications to adult learning and education practices.
“It’S Our Voices” Cancer-Related Digital Stories By Alaska’S Community Health Workers, Melany Cueva, Regina Kuhnley, Laura J. Revels, Anne P. Lanier, Mark Digman
“It’S Our Voices” Cancer-Related Digital Stories By Alaska’S Community Health Workers, Melany Cueva, Regina Kuhnley, Laura J. Revels, Anne P. Lanier, Mark Digman
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Between May 2009 and October 2010, four week-long cancer education courses were provided for 35 community health workers (CHWs) from throughout Alaska. This project explored how cancer-related, digital stories created by CHWs supported their learning journey and provided a tool to share cancer health messages with people in their communities. Digital storytelling combines storytelling with computer-based technology to bring the power of the media to community members. End-of-course written evaluations and qualitative interviews revealed that combining digital storytelling with cancer education was feasible, culturally relevant, and enhanced participant learning.