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Late Transition To Technical College: Perspectives From Males Approaching Adulthood, Gary C. Lindeman

Adult Education Research Conference

This study was about the transition experiences of a sample of nine young adult males who enrolled in technical college several years after leaving high school.

University Continuing Education And Social Change: Theoretical And Methodological Points Of Departure, Scott Mclean, Bethany Beale, Silvana Romano

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper explores the relationship between university continuing education and social change. It presents an example of how historical-comparative methods and sociological theory are essential for understanding this relationship.

A Pedagogy Of Provisioning: Urban Agriculture As A Mechanism For Community Renewal, Pam Karstens Ph.D.

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper explores the significance of urban agriculture as a mechanism for teaching and learning to support the collective welfare of an inner-city neighborhood.

Theorizing Adult Learning From The Postmodern Perspective: What Questions Do We Need To Ask?, Dae Joong Kang

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this roundtable paper is to pose a critique to adult learning theory building and to propose different questions to explore learning activities from the postmodern perspective.

The Adult Learner’S Quest: W.E.B. Du Bois As Vicarious Mentor, Don Hofford

Adult Education Research Conference

The intentional adult learner is intellectually and emotionally in a perpetual “act of seeking.” The search is for purpose, meaning, humanistic dialogue, self-awareness, creative adventure, and life-affirming experiences. This act of seeking makes the on-going, existential life journey an educational commitment; a continuing involvement with both abstract ideas and concrete reality. Age dims the eyes, not visionary possibilities; slows the reflexes, not the reflective skill that helps define the person as a thinking, questioning, questing being.

The Politics Of Poverty: Higher Education And Low Income Adult Learners, Catherine A. Hansman

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this paper is to examine and discuss the growing trends in higher education in the United States that narrow educational opportunities for poor and working-class adult learners.

Working For It: The Other Work In Graduate School, Procuring Fellowship Funding & Designing The Research To Accompany The Funds, Dominique T. Chlup, Lisa Gardner Flores, Joellen Coryell

Adult Education Research Conference

Two current fellows at a state literacy center with University affiliations and a former doctoral fellow at a national center will discuss their experiences procuring a major fellowship to help pay for their graduate studies. How these fellowships allowed them to participate in the design and implementation of research are also discussed.

Towards A Gender-Sensitive Model For Distance Education Planning, Koyali Burman

Adult Education Research Conference

Development projects are vehicles for generating change. Since last century, the world has experienced unprecedented economic expansion and more interest in the development with emphasis on the capacity-building and sustainability of projects. As a result there is a considerable increase of technological progress and more intense international competition. A common refrain in many circles is that gender principles are often discussed, but seldom applied.

Overcoming Marginalization And Disengagement In Adult Education: Adult Educators’ Contributions To The Scholarship Of Engagement, Richard Kiely, Lorilee Sandmann, Susan Bracken

Adult Education Research Conference

As adult educators whose work has had an impact on shaping the discourse on scholarly engagement, service-learning and community-based education, we will describe our different approaches to this movement and share our diverse practical experiences fostering greater community engagement in the areas of teaching, research and service.

The Importance Of Learning For Changing Sexual Practices In Response To The Hiv/Aids Crisis In Ghana, Augustine M. Amenyah, Bradley C. Courtenay

Adult Education Research Conference

This study examined how adults in Ghana learned to make changes in their sexual practices in response to HIV/AIDS crisis. Findings include changes made in sexual practices and a learning process that included four components: initial awareness, catalysts for further learning, engagement in learning activities, and other influential factors.

Welfare Reform And Women’S Economic Development: Expanding The Discourse Within Adult Education, Mary V. Alfred

Adult Education Research Conference

researchers have examined adult development within the context of adult learning, but few have examined the economic development of women, particularly those caught in the cycle of welfare and low-wage employment. This paper will explore the personal and structurla barriers to economic development among former welfare recipients and broaden the discourse on women's development

The Evolution Of Education Has Not Been Televised: Educational Inequalities And The Impact Of Change, Andree Robinson-Neal

Andree Robinson-Neal

The historical evolution of education and impact of its inequalities have not been televised. The world is more often exposed to “overcomology” —society’s assertion that oppressed peoples or so-called minorities have overcome past injustices and are now able to access the same educational opportunities as so-called majority groups. This paper provides a Gil Scott-Heron-esque review of the effects of inequalities on this key social institution.

A Study Of Women Empowerment Programmes Of The Agency For, Dr. Uche J. Obidiegwu

Dr. Uche J. Obidiegwu

This paper examines the concept of empowerment. It also discusses some of the income generating activities of the Agency for Adult and Non-formal Education (AANFE), Oyo State. This was with the view to determining how income-generating activities have helped adult women to develop skills in their different vocations and how these programmes have made participants to become self-reliant and improved their standard of living. Two hypotheses were postulated and tested at 0.05 significant levels. The survey research design was adopted for the study. A total number of 1,500 women were randomly selected from those who had graduated from AANFE vocational …

Educational Levels And Political Literacy: The Case Of Adults Enrolled In The Inea Program In El Paso,Texas, Carolina Pallares

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

ABSTRACT

The political socialization process is ever-present in our daily lives. Traditional academic philosophies contend that one needs a formal education to achieve a high state of political awareness. This study challenges that traditional belief by proving that adults with little or no formal education can demonstrate a high level of political awareness.

The purpose of this study is to show that, absent a formal traditional education, individuals may be politically active and have an understanding of complex political issues. In order to test this hypoThesis, I interviewed participants enrolled in the Instituto Nacional de Educación para los Adultos, …