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G.E.D In 3 Voices: Reconsidering What We Perceive As “Deficits”, C. Amelia Davis
G.E.D In 3 Voices: Reconsidering What We Perceive As “Deficits”, C. Amelia Davis
Adult Education Research Conference
In this research, I experiment re-presenting particular stories through poetic texts that contextualize and capture rich detail while honoring difference in experience between GED students and instructors. Drawing upon the evocative and consequential nature of performative writing I attempt to weave images through meaning, inviting readers to fill in the gaps, noting places where they are pushed to spaces that are difficult to fully understand or interpret.
Examining The Indian Farmer Suicides Through The Social And Environmental Justice Lens, Yogita Abichandani, Juanita Johnson-Bailey
Examining The Indian Farmer Suicides Through The Social And Environmental Justice Lens, Yogita Abichandani, Juanita Johnson-Bailey
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Approximately 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India over the last decade. A majority of them are the ones who have been failed by the non- yield of genetically modified cotton per hectare and are dependent on these crops for their daily livelihood. The GM cottonseeds represent the hegemony and oppression of the farmers propelled by the globalization movement. This paper provides an understanding that the social movements against the GM seeds are in fact movements pointing towards the social and environmental injustices and seeks to understand the role adult education can play in addressing the social and environmental injustice.
Media Literacy As An Inquiry-Based Framework For Exploring Desocialization, Iris Metzgen-Ohlswager
Media Literacy As An Inquiry-Based Framework For Exploring Desocialization, Iris Metzgen-Ohlswager
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Our educational landscape is dramatically changing; youth and adults have access to more information than ever before in history. As a world we have embraced technology with open arms, but rarely have reflected on its implications or actively educated people on how to deconstruct the endless stream of messages. Media literacy or the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media, and can be used as an inquiry-based framework for exploring desocialization in the classroom, community, or workplace.
“It’S The Physical Versus The Emotional”: Using Poetics To Re-Present The Power Of Art In The Nursing Clinical Experience, Carrie Bailey, C. Amelia Davis
“It’S The Physical Versus The Emotional”: Using Poetics To Re-Present The Power Of Art In The Nursing Clinical Experience, Carrie Bailey, C. Amelia Davis
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The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study was to consider how the use of art in the post-clinical experience could broaden nursing students’ perceptions of holistic care, utilizing reflective practice and arts-based resources to increase their awareness of comprehensive patient care. Arts-based education research served as a useful curriculum tool for deep reflection in clinical nursing students’ experiences. Keeping with the tenor of arts-based research, we used poetic re-presentations as a means of maintaining students’ voices in this work. Reflections not only spanned the care provided but looked closely at patient relationships through analysis of their own clinical practice.
Dueling Clocks: How Academic Women Balance Childcare With The Road To Tenure, Erin Careless
Dueling Clocks: How Academic Women Balance Childcare With The Road To Tenure, Erin Careless
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This proposed study looks at the experience of academic women as they combine the demanding roles of motherhood and academic seeking tenure. Literature has identified several themes related to role-balancing: social and gender roles/expectations, time limitations of tenure and childrearing years, available support, ambiguous policies, and personal expectations (Armenti, 2004; Ward & Wolf-Wendel, 2004; Young & Wright, 2001). Data will be obtained using narrative inquiry, and examined through a critical feminist perspective. Individuals representing both academics and those employed in the policy sector will be interviewed, with the aim of assisting in the adaptation of university-based policy for academics. Introduction
Roundtable: Exposing Shadow Culture For Transformative Learning, Christian Avalon
Roundtable: Exposing Shadow Culture For Transformative Learning, Christian Avalon
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Discussion will be based from the proposed transformative learning framework lesson materials to determine 1) whether a critical event can be expected from material exposure; 2) how long disorientation is likely to ensue based on previous knowledge; and 3) best classroom techniques to manage individuals’ transformative learning needs within group instruction. Instruction materials include historical timelines, extent of exposure around the world, and sketches of prime examples for comparison and are structured as an observation inquiry project for learners to determine the prevalence of astrology as a socially constructed shadow culture influence.
Laughter Doeth Learning Good Like A Medicine, Celia Farr
Laughter Doeth Learning Good Like A Medicine, Celia Farr
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Laughter and its significant benefits lower the affective filter in any learning environment. The release of laughter reduces perceived learning difficulties and lowers learning anxieties which are commonly found in the adult-learner classroom. With the introduction of appropriately-sensitive humor to the classroom, students forge a solid and personal foundation– upon which they can better build the scaffolding for present and future learning experiences. The role of humor and laughter in the adult-learner’s classroom not only enhances the overall learning experience, it also aids in retention of knowledge.
Fostering A Literate U.S. Workforce: Perspectives Of Adult Educators In Human Resource Development, Merlissa C. Alfred
Fostering A Literate U.S. Workforce: Perspectives Of Adult Educators In Human Resource Development, Merlissa C. Alfred
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Organizations are faced with increasing demands for a highly literate and skilled workforce. Investments in basic literacy and skills training are required to effectively address these organizational needs. The purpose of this study was to investigate Human Resource Development’s role in investing in and developing the segment of the US workforce that lacks the basic literacy and skills needed to participate in the employment arena.
Adult Learning Models For Translational Health Research: Bench, Bedside, And Communities, Linda Ziegahn
Adult Learning Models For Translational Health Research: Bench, Bedside, And Communities, Linda Ziegahn
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The intent of translational health research is to bridge the longstanding gaps between laboratory research and the people who are the intended beneficiaries of the resulting discoveries. Models from the field of adult education, particularly experiential and transformative learning approaches, can be useful in developing theory for the learning processes that occur when scientists, health practitioners, and community members collaborate around the identification, implementation, and evaluation of research projects aimed at improving health for everyone.
The Power Of Cliques, Friendships, And Social Networks In Strengthening Adult Basic Education Student Persistence And Retention, Jeff Zacharakis
The Power Of Cliques, Friendships, And Social Networks In Strengthening Adult Basic Education Student Persistence And Retention, Jeff Zacharakis
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This issue of student persistence and retention continues to plague most adult learning centers. This paper develops a theoretical perspective that uses social capital and network theory to explain why some students succeed in an ABE/GED program and go on to pursue post-secondary education and why some do not.
Class, Popular Culture, And The Academy: Critical Comments Of Scholars From The Working-Class, Robin Redmon Wright
Class, Popular Culture, And The Academy: Critical Comments Of Scholars From The Working-Class, Robin Redmon Wright
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Twenty-five self-identified working-class scholars were interviewed about their life histories in an effort to understand their career choice. Participants credited the incidental and informal learning they received from consuming film, television shows, popular music, comic books and novels as expanding their world view and instilling a desire to succeed academically.
Math Teachers Come From The Darnedest Places: Adult Learners Becoming Adult Teachers, Gary L. Wright
Math Teachers Come From The Darnedest Places: Adult Learners Becoming Adult Teachers, Gary L. Wright
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In this qualitative study I sought a better understanding of the experiences of mathematics educators who, prior to engaging with their chosen profession, participated in a developmental mathematics course or program. The purpose was to learn more about (i) the impact of faculty (or institutional) attitudes and behaviors on these individuals and (ii) the factors, inside or outside the classroom, that supported their decisions to pursue careers in academia.
Community Service Learning: Perspectives From Adult Education, Pierre Walter
Community Service Learning: Perspectives From Adult Education, Pierre Walter
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This paper positions Community Service Learning (CSL) within traditions of adult education, examines related work on international CSL, transformative learning and social justice in higher education, and briefly considers a CSL initiative at a major research university. It concludes with suggestions for further research on CSL in adult education.
Adult Learning In Community-Based Ecotourism, Pierre Walter
Adult Learning In Community-Based Ecotourism, Pierre Walter
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This paper examines the sites, processes and curriculum of adult learning in community-based ecotourism (CBE). It compares different forms of CBE; elaborates on community learning for capacity building, on the ecotourism curriculum, and on learning processes; and identifies areas in need of further research.
Educational And Mothering Discourses And Learner Goals: Mexican Immigrant Women Enacting Agency In A Family Literacy Program, Blaire Willson Toso, Esther Prins
Educational And Mothering Discourses And Learner Goals: Mexican Immigrant Women Enacting Agency In A Family Literacy Program, Blaire Willson Toso, Esther Prins
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This paper, using data from a qualitative study, examines how Mexican immigrant women in a family literacy program appropriated mainstream discourses of mothering and parent involvement to pursue their personal and academic goals. The paper examines notions of human agency, prevailing parenting and literacy discourses, and learner goals and subjectivities.
Spiritual Development, Paradox, And Wisdom In Adult Educators’ Reflections Ageing, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Spiritual Development, Paradox, And Wisdom In Adult Educators’ Reflections Ageing, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
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This paper discusses some of the longitudinal findings of a narrative study of spiritual development and emerging wisdom of women adult educators over a 10 year period.
Communities Of Lifelong Learning [2]: Social Dialogue: Exchanges Shaping Learning Experiences, James E. Thornton, Shauna Butterwick, Thomas Sork
Communities Of Lifelong Learning [2]: Social Dialogue: Exchanges Shaping Learning Experiences, James E. Thornton, Shauna Butterwick, Thomas Sork
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Social Dialogues discussed in this paper are the learning exchanges that develop in structured adult learning activities and essential communities of lifelong learning. Social dialogues, Social Justice and Social Territories and Borders (Session 1) are topics essential to the development of communities of lifelong learning. They provide the scaffolding critical to the professional and policy discourses shaping lifelong learning and educational opportunities over the adult life course in diverse social communities of practice.
Hinduism And Adult Learning: Fostering A Mind-Body Connection, Swathi Nath Thaker
Hinduism And Adult Learning: Fostering A Mind-Body Connection, Swathi Nath Thaker
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The Western notions of learning have, and still, dominate the field of adult education, with non-cognitive forms of learning such as somatic learning and spirituality only recently emerging. While much of the Western literature on learning and knowing suggest that the mind and body are split, a number of cultures around the world do not believe in this dichotomy, and Hinduism is no exception. Hinduism, which is said to be over four thousand years old, defines itself according to the Vedas, the most ancient body of religious literature. While much of this content has long been unknown to most Hindus, …
Financial Literacy For Adult Learners In Community-Based Settings: A Mixed Methods Study, Edward W. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Karin Sprow
Financial Literacy For Adult Learners In Community-Based Settings: A Mixed Methods Study, Edward W. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Karin Sprow
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This paper discusses the findings of a mixed method study (282 surveys and 15 interviews) of pedagogical techniques and strategies of financial literacy educators in community based settings.
Cognitive Enrichment Advantage: Applications For An Interdisciplinary Approach To Adult Learning, Jonathan E. Taylor
Cognitive Enrichment Advantage: Applications For An Interdisciplinary Approach To Adult Learning, Jonathan E. Taylor
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The author proposes that Cognitive Enrichment Advantage (CEA), an approach to mediated learning, may be a strongly beneficial approach in many adult education endeavors and can be successfully adapted to adult learning contexts. Three specific areas in which CEA may be particularly helpful are adult basic education (ABE), Emancipatory education, and workforce development/training. There is some overlap in the ways in which each of these three areas could benefit from the CEA approach but all three domains within adult education could benefit from a closer examination of the overlapping concepts and relevant applications.
Is Complexity Science Embedded In Transformative Learning?, Ann L. Swartz, Karin Sprow
Is Complexity Science Embedded In Transformative Learning?, Ann L. Swartz, Karin Sprow
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This paper discusses evidence that Jack Mezirow’s (1991) seminal work on transformative learning drew heavily from the precursors of complexity science without making the connection explicit, a trend still present in the transformative learning literature. The use of concepts from complexity theory and its interdisciplinary contributors can improve our understanding of transformative learning and its development.
Embodied Learning And Trauma In The Classroom And In Practice, Ann L. Swartz
Embodied Learning And Trauma In The Classroom And In Practice, Ann L. Swartz
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This study sought to understand how RN-BS clinical students learn through their bodies and how these patterns relate to trauma. Use of an experiential, embodied pedagogy led to emergence of embodied connection with self and new patterns of self-care, professional knowledge and action.
Social Innovation: Creating New Business Models For Adult And Continuing Higher Education, Sandria S. Stephenson
Social Innovation: Creating New Business Models For Adult And Continuing Higher Education, Sandria S. Stephenson
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Using a qualitative approach to inquiry this paper highlights results of a study, which focuses on (1) the current challenges facing continuing higher education (CHE) divisions; (2) how these divisions engage in social and systematic innovation in an effort to foster social responsibility. It demonstrates a model strategy for mitigating the challenges using Drucker’s (1985) eight sources of systematic innovation. CHE divisions will be better prepared to respond to societies’ needs and pursue their mission and that of their parent institutions.
Csi Literacy: The Forensic Application Of Basic Skills Testing, Ralf St. Clair
Csi Literacy: The Forensic Application Of Basic Skills Testing, Ralf St. Clair
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This presentation is a reflection on the application of literacy testing in a criminal case in the UK. A woman of retirement age was charged with fraud on the basis of a repeated false statement on a benefit form. The author was asked by defense lawyers to provide an expert opinion on whether the defendant’s claim to have misunderstood the question due to limited literacy skills was credible. The presentation reviews the procedures developed by the author to come to an informed opinion, and discusses some of the limits of literacy testing the process revealed.
Developing Engaged Scholars: The Graduate Advisor-Advisee Relationship, Lorilee R. Sandmann, Audrey J. Jaeger, Jihyun Kim
Developing Engaged Scholars: The Graduate Advisor-Advisee Relationship, Lorilee R. Sandmann, Audrey J. Jaeger, Jihyun Kim
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A critical dimension in the development of emerging engaged scholars is the advisor-advisee relationship. A multiyear, multiuniversity study of doctoral students interested in community-engaged scholarship and their advisors found that advisors influenced their advisees’ specific approach to community engagement; advisees built extensively on their own community-based experiences and even pushed their advisors in co-learning about communityengaged scholarship; and advisors and advisees shared recognition of lack of support for community engagement but pursued it anyway.
Reflecting On The Screen: Documentary Film Festivals And Citizenship Education, Carole Roy, Susan Young
Reflecting On The Screen: Documentary Film Festivals And Citizenship Education, Carole Roy, Susan Young
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Collaboration between adult educators and the media have played a significant role in adult education in Canada, leading to the creation of innovative programs in the past. Today, many stories of community struggles and victories do not make the news. Community-based documentary film festivals offer an alternative source of information and provide a community/ solidarity building event that contributes to rebuilding a meaningful public space.
Digital Storytelling In Adult Education: Toward A Conceptual Framework, Marsha Rossiter, Penny A. Garcia
Digital Storytelling In Adult Education: Toward A Conceptual Framework, Marsha Rossiter, Penny A. Garcia
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Interest in digital storytelling in a multitude of settings has burgeoned in recent years. Although digital storytelling is not new in the world of educational technology, so far it has received little attention in the literature of adult learning. Our aim in this paper is to explore elements of a conceptual framework for the use of digital storytelling in adult education.
Toward A Learning Society Revisited: The Rise And Fall Of An Educational Ideal?, Amy D. Rose
Toward A Learning Society Revisited: The Rise And Fall Of An Educational Ideal?, Amy D. Rose
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This study begins a broad historical dialogue on the movement for lifelong learning and the “learning society” and the ways that many of the innovations were adopted, while the adult students continued to be marginalized both institutionally and conceptually within adult higher education.
From Grassroots Adult Literacy To Navigating Academia: An Autoethnography, Madevi Ramdeholl
From Grassroots Adult Literacy To Navigating Academia: An Autoethnography, Madevi Ramdeholl
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This study chronicled the first year of a grassroots adult literacy practitioner into the world of academia. This scholar practitioner reflects on her transition into this culture and the implications for other new scholars of color.
Critical Philosophical Concept Analysis A Search For Meaning Of The Concept Criticality In Adult Education, Bernadine W. Raiskums
Critical Philosophical Concept Analysis A Search For Meaning Of The Concept Criticality In Adult Education, Bernadine W. Raiskums
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This study applied philosophical concept analysis as a qualitative research method to study meanings of the concept “criticality” in adult education. The research design combined elements of two previously applied approaches emphasizing comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the literature. Results of this study provide a clear conceptual foundation and working definition for the concept “criticality” that will serve as a heuristic for further research, theory building, and practice.