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Creating A Centre For University Faculty Learning And Teaching: Adult Education In The Academy Of The Second Millennium, Marilyn E. Laiken Sep 2000

Creating A Centre For University Faculty Learning And Teaching: Adult Education In The Academy Of The Second Millennium, Marilyn E. Laiken

Adult Education Research Conference

Although numerous attempts have been made to establish a centre for excellence in teaching and learning at the University of Toronto, none have been sustained. The author suggests that a more systemically-focused approach which uses wide consultation and collaborative planning with key stakeholders may help achieve the goal.


Problems Of Mapping The Field Of Education For Adults Through The Literature, Peter Jarvis, John Holford, Colin Griffin Sep 2000

Problems Of Mapping The Field Of Education For Adults Through The Literature, Peter Jarvis, John Holford, Colin Griffin

Adult Education Research Conference

The education of adults is a modernity project and as we come to the end of the era, adult education, as we knew it, has been transformed into lifelong learning. We are producing a 5 volume set of books reflecting significant contributions to the field in the English language throughout the era. In this discussion paper we highlight and illustrate some of the problems of this on-going project.


Learning Theory And Adult Education, Knud Illeris Sep 2000

Learning Theory And Adult Education, Knud Illeris

Adult Education Research Conference

Today a majority of the participants in adult education are unskilled or unemployed adults who must combine acquiring a professional qualification with a change of identity and way of life. As a foundation of such education, staff and planners need a comprehensive learning theory that includes the cognitive, psychodynamic and social-societal dimensions of learning.


Bill 00-2-F Campus Clean Up, Wku Student Government Association Sep 2000

Bill 00-2-F Campus Clean Up, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to hold campus clean up on October 17, 2000.


Bill 00-3-S Newspapers, Wku Student Government Association Sep 2000

Bill 00-3-S Newspapers, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to create newspaper delivery pilot project.


Bill 00-3-F Suggestion Box Collection, Wku Student Government Association Sep 2000

Bill 00-3-F Suggestion Box Collection, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to assign suggestion boxes to residence hall representatives.


Bill 00-3-F Allocation Of Funds To Parking, Wku Student Government Association Sep 2000

Bill 00-3-F Allocation Of Funds To Parking, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to allocate funds for parking improvements.


Collaboration Anxiety: What Do We Do About It?, Mike Healy Sep 2000

Collaboration Anxiety: What Do We Do About It?, Mike Healy

Adult Education Research Conference

This roundtable will discuss a recent study of the transformational learning process within Insight Meditation and compare this process with Mezirow’s and Boyd’s views.


Collaboration Anxiety: What Do We Do About It?, Lynette Harper, Marina Niks, Allison Tom Sep 2000

Collaboration Anxiety: What Do We Do About It?, Lynette Harper, Marina Niks, Allison Tom

Adult Education Research Conference

The growing momentum of collaborative and participatory research initiatives is raising new issues in social science research. Collaborative research projects differ dramatically in their theoretical and methodological approaches, but they all involve personal risk-taking by the researchers as well as the researched. We believe that the most critical topic in collaboration is the commitment to changing the power dynamics in a research relationship.


Measuring Outcomes Of Continuing Professional Education, Jenny Gough, Peteris Darzinsm, David Beckett Sep 2000

Measuring Outcomes Of Continuing Professional Education, Jenny Gough, Peteris Darzinsm, David Beckett

Adult Education Research Conference

Continuing professional education (CPE) should improve performance, yet ways of establishing evidence of improvement are hard to identify. We propose a systematic review of the outcomes of various CPE strategies. To do this we need to establish how the effectiveness of CPE can be measured and explore this in the health-care professions.


Learning Under Fire: Adult Education In The Heat Of Conflict, R. Michael Fisher Sep 2000

Learning Under Fire: Adult Education In The Heat Of Conflict, R. Michael Fisher

Adult Education Research Conference

A critical review of the discourses on ‘conflict’ in conflict management education literature revealed an ideological bias and "hidden curriculum" of propaganda, which is heavily influencing social conflict conceptualizations and practices. Workers with adults have an emerging 'conflict' pedagogy to develop and draw upon as counterhegemonic. Conflict is re-examined as a critical site of learning.


Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate Sep 2000

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting to discuss health insurance, committee appointments, athletics, elections, website, salaries and morale.


Are We Walking The Talk? Questions Of Structure And Agency In The Research On Teaching In Adult Education, John M. Dirkx, Jennifer Kushner, Susan B. Slusarski Sep 2000

Are We Walking The Talk? Questions Of Structure And Agency In The Research On Teaching In Adult Education, John M. Dirkx, Jennifer Kushner, Susan B. Slusarski

Adult Education Research Conference

Despite current prevalence of constructivist epistemologies, the practice of teaching adults continues to reflect representational approaches to meaning. In this roundtable discussion, we explore the use of Giddens’ theory of structuration as a framework for deepening our understanding of the lack of change in teaching.


The Use Of Oral History Methodology As A Means Of Researching The Shifting Meanings Of Worker Education In South Africa, Linda Cooper Sep 2000

The Use Of Oral History Methodology As A Means Of Researching The Shifting Meanings Of Worker Education In South Africa, Linda Cooper

Adult Education Research Conference

No abstract available.


Towards An Holistic Approach To Professional Learning And Development, Geoff Chivers, Graham Cheetham Sep 2000

Towards An Holistic Approach To Professional Learning And Development, Geoff Chivers, Graham Cheetham

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper outlines research conducted by the authors between 1994 and 1999 into the nature of professional competence and how it is acquired. It discusses some of the key results which appear to suggest partiality both in existing models of professional competence and approaches to professional development.


A Bourdieuian Perspective On Differences In Adult Learning Styles: Deconstructing Asian Learners, Marie-France Champagne, Pierre Walter Sep 2000

A Bourdieuian Perspective On Differences In Adult Learning Styles: Deconstructing Asian Learners, Marie-France Champagne, Pierre Walter

Adult Education Research Conference

No abstract available.


Linking Theory To Practice In The Workplace, Ronald K. Browne, Ainslie Lamb Sep 2000

Linking Theory To Practice In The Workplace, Ronald K. Browne, Ainslie Lamb

Adult Education Research Conference

No abstract available.


Is It Time To Move On? Reflections On A Research Agenda For Self-Directed Learning In The 21st Century, Ralph G. Brockett Sep 2000

Is It Time To Move On? Reflections On A Research Agenda For Self-Directed Learning In The 21st Century, Ralph G. Brockett

Adult Education Research Conference

Self-directed learning has been one of the most studied areas of adult education over the past three decades. Instead of abandoning this line of inquiry, more research is needed that explores the topic from new perspectives


Assessing Student Progress Toward The Equipped For The Future Standards: Issues And Lessons To Date, Brenda Bell, Peggy Mcguire Sep 2000

Assessing Student Progress Toward The Equipped For The Future Standards: Issues And Lessons To Date, Brenda Bell, Peggy Mcguire

Adult Education Research Conference

Equipped for the Future (EFF), the national standards-based system reform initiative for adult education, has developed sixteen content standards that define the core knowledge and skills adults need to effectively carry out their primary roles. The current stage of EFF research is focused on development of performance standards for these content standards. This roundtable will discuss issues and findings from this field-based research.


Narrative Analysis: Uncovering The Truth Of Stories, Lisa M. Baumgartner Sep 2000

Narrative Analysis: Uncovering The Truth Of Stories, Lisa M. Baumgartner

Adult Education Research Conference

The use of narratives as a data source has come under scrutiny (Phillips,1994, 1997). The purpose of this session will be to discuss "truth" as it relates to narratives and to demonstrate methods of narrative analysis using data from a study concerning identity formation in HIV-positive adults.


Experiential Subsistence Learning: Researching The Transformative Moments In Motherwork, Rose Barg Sep 2000

Experiential Subsistence Learning: Researching The Transformative Moments In Motherwork, Rose Barg

Adult Education Research Conference

In this paper I explore the learning and knowledge creation that takes place within the lived experience of motherwork through artful inquiry that includes storytelling, narrative and poesis.


Oral Tradition - A Literacy For Lifelong Learning: Native American Approaches To Justice And Wellness Education., Marlene R. Atleo, Achaessa James Sep 2000

Oral Tradition - A Literacy For Lifelong Learning: Native American Approaches To Justice And Wellness Education., Marlene R. Atleo, Achaessa James

Adult Education Research Conference

Native American oral tradition provides a literacy for lifelong learning that promotes perspective transformations. This approach is particularly suited to justice and wellness education because participants engage multiple ways of being and knowing: sensory, philosophical, serious, humorous, etc. Oral traditions can be understood in the context of transformative learning that has implications for adult education.


Creating Private Spaces To Learn Public Participation, Joanna Ashworth Sep 2000

Creating Private Spaces To Learn Public Participation, Joanna Ashworth

Adult Education Research Conference

Conceptions of private and public inform educational research and planning for labour market transitions in a small resource-based town in British Columbia. Laid-off forestry workers, women on social-assistance and underemployed youth seek inclusion in a community dialogue on educational planning, yet require support to participate.


Adult Education For A Civil Society: Starting Over, Pramila Aggarwal, Bill Fallis, Bob Luker Sep 2000

Adult Education For A Civil Society: Starting Over, Pramila Aggarwal, Bill Fallis, Bob Luker

Adult Education Research Conference

To "start over" adult educators need to reexamine the present practice of adult education and community development in Canada, as compared to our earlier ideals for the field that included the promotion of greater democracy, social equality and equitable economic opportunities for all Canadians. In this reassessment, we need to consider the broader potential of our community agencies, as sites for revitalizing our civil society.


Mapping Use Of A Self-Directed On-Line Heart Disease Education Program Onto Health Learning Outcomes: A Study Of Post-Heart Attack Learners, Meg Wise, Gi Woong Yun, Bret Shaw Sep 2000

Mapping Use Of A Self-Directed On-Line Heart Disease Education Program Onto Health Learning Outcomes: A Study Of Post-Heart Attack Learners, Meg Wise, Gi Woong Yun, Bret Shaw

Adult Education Research Conference

We correlated 25 heart patients’ changes in four behaviors to usage of behavior themes and three on-line learning activities. Information correlated negatively; communications correlated positively; and interactive planning showed a positive trend with changing behaviors. These findings challenge on-line educators to transcend information provision and offer more opportunities that integrate social interaction and planning.


Place Matters: Producing Power And Identity, Arthur L. Wilson Sep 2000

Place Matters: Producing Power And Identity, Arthur L. Wilson

Adult Education Research Conference

"Place" plays a significant role in producing power relations in continuing professional education. Where we "locate" our CPE programs influences not only their purposes and processes but also produces the identities of the participating professionals and professions as well as the power professionals and professions exercise in society.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Sep 2000

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the September 7, 2000 meeting.


A Gendered Edge: Auto/Biographical Research Into Doctors And Lifelong Learning In The Inner-City, Linden West Sep 2000

A Gendered Edge: Auto/Biographical Research Into Doctors And Lifelong Learning In The Inner-City, Linden West

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper considers "lifelong learning" among a group of doctors within the "male" medical profession. It explores their struggle to be effective and reflective practitioners, in a world where subjective knowledge and cultural understanding are often derided, and yet "success" may depend on the integration of medical with cultural and emotional literacy.


Beyond Coady: Adult Education And The End Of Utopian Modernism, Michael R. Welton Sep 2000

Beyond Coady: Adult Education And The End Of Utopian Modernism, Michael R. Welton

Adult Education Research Conference

No abstract available.


Questions For The Adult Educator On A Virtual Odyssey: An Analysis Of Internet And Web-Based Learning, Sue Webb Sep 2000

Questions For The Adult Educator On A Virtual Odyssey: An Analysis Of Internet And Web-Based Learning, Sue Webb

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper examines the argument that lifelong learning should become increasingly dependent on education technology because this will alleviate many of the barriers to learning adults face. Lifelong learning is diverse, and so caution is needed when generalising from case specific research. The premise that new learning technologies promote social inclusion is still relatively untested.