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Perceived Academic Needs Of Military Veterans Within A For-Profit, Yvonne Rose Ross

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The number of recent U.S. military veterans attending college has increased due to the Veterans Education Assistance Act; however, retention and graduation rates for this population have declined. The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the experiences and academic needs of recent military veterans as they transition from the military to academic life at a for-profit, proprietary college. In addition, this study identified differences in the problems faced by male and female veterans and explored whether veterans understood the resources available to them as they enrolled in higher education. Schlossberg's transitional theory was the conceptual framework used in …

Searching For Purpose: Mezirow’S Early View Of Transformative Learning, Amy D. Rose

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper discusses the early work of Jack Mezirow in terms of his later writings on transformative learning. In particular, it examines his early interest in the ways individuals change through education and how this related to broader social change. It also posits that his earlier interest was philosophical rather than based in learning theory.

International Adult And Continuing Education Hall Of Fame Panel, Juanita Johnson Bailey, Michael Newman, James Pappas, Janet Poley

Adult Education Research Conference

There have been major “sea changes” in adult higher education in the time of my career. Significant among those include online and hybrid education, the creation of adult centric and proprietary institutions, the concomitant unbundling of degrees and credentialing, the enormous growth of adult and non-traditional students, the true globalization of American style education and the reduction of adult education departments/tracks and/or their replacement with human resource development. I suggest that we are in a golden era of self-directed adult learning; but, that it is incumbent upon us in adult education to address more directly and with greater energy the …

The Social Lives And Work Experiences Of Adults With High Functioning Autism: An Indian Scenario, Sanpalei Nylla Lyngdoh

Adult Education Research Conference

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Incarcerated Women As Facilitators: A Preliminary Review Of Motivations And Skill Development In Group Leadership Settings, Chaundra L. Whitehead

Adult Education Research Conference

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with about 500 prisoners per 100,000 residents (Tsai & Scommegna, 2012). There are currently about 7 million offenders under the supervision of the adult correctional systems in the U.S. There are numerous statistics demonstrating the growth and scope of women in prison. The rate of increase has been about twice that of their male counterparts. The number of incarcerated woman has jumped a shocking 757 percent since 1977 (Talvi, 2007, p.3). As a result of these growing inmate populations there has been an increased focus on the topic of …

Small Stage, Big World: Meaning-Making In Television Program, Bo Chang

Adult Education Research Conference

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The Roles And Strategies Of The District Government In Promoting Community Education, Lei Jiang

Adult Education Research Conference

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Study On Identification Of City Life And Adaptive Learning Of New Residents Whose Land Was Expropriated In China, Yilu Jiang

Adult Education Research Conference

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Working Together To Train Child Welfare Workers On The Impact Of Domestic Violence On Children: A Faculty-Staff Collaborative Research Project, Andrea Nikischer, Jeanette Koncikowski

Adult Education Research Conference

This presentation will discuss the “Research in Domestic Violence for Child Welfare Trainers and Case Workers" collaborative “match” project. This project featured the pairing of a SUNY Buffalo State faculty member with an education specialist from the Institute for Community Health Promotion. Research findings will be shared.

Jack Mezirow: Theorist, Researcher, Practitioner, Learner, Elizabeth Kasl

Adult Education Research Conference

Jack Mezirow’s theory of adult learning is related to his beliefs about research and actualized in his vision for practice.

Closing Session: Putting Jack Mezirow’S Ideas Into Context, Michael Newman

Adult Education Research Conference

The author argues that all adult education theory is either humanist or socialist.

He reviews some of Jack Mezirow’s ideas with this idea in mind.

It’S Been The Best Of Times: My Twenty-Year Retrospective On Adult Education, Juanita Johnson-Bailey

Adult Education Research Conference

This essay presents a personal assessment of the ways in which the field of Adult and Continuing Education has succeeded and faltered during the last two decades and discusses how the field can address future challenges.

Opening Panel: Adult Education Then And Now, Michael Newman

Adult Education Research Conference

This is not so much a paper as four quotations from the author’s previous writings, along with some annotations. The author describes his first encounter with adult education. He looks at one of the reasons why adult education was robust. He describes the onset of professionalism. He describes the effects of specialisation. And he identifies the paradoxical situation adult education finds itself in today

The Relationship Between Self-Efficacy And Employee Commitment Among Perfusionists, Gilbert F. Garcia

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Certified clinical perfusionists (CCPs) operate a variety of complex, invasive devices to provide heart-lung support. Job-related stress has been identified as having unfavorable influences on self-efficacy and commitment of employees in many domains, but this relationship has not been examined among CCPs. Guided by self-efficacy theory and organizational commitment model, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether a relationship exists between self-efficacy and commitment among CCPs and the extent to which age, gender, workload, experience, or education impacted CCPs' commitment. Data were collected from 264 respondents via 2 established survey instruments: the organizational commitment questionnaire and the work …