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Novice To Expert: How Do Professionals Learn?, Barbara J. Daley May 1998

Novice To Expert: How Do Professionals Learn?, Barbara J. Daley

Adult Education Research Conference

This study examined the different learning processes used by novices and experts. Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with novice and expert nurses. Results indicated that novice learning was contingent on concept formation. Expert learning was identified as a constructivist process using active concept integration.

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Development Of An Instrument For Identifying Groups Of Learners, Gary J. Conti, Rita C. Kolody May 1998

Development Of An Instrument For Identifying Groups Of Learners, Gary J. Conti, Rita C. Kolody

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ATLAS (Assessing The Learning Strategies of AdultS) has been developed to quickly identify the learning strategy group to which the respondent belongs. The validation process involved the use of past learning strategy studies and multivariate statistical procedures.

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Incarcerated Women's Identity Development: Becoming A Self At The Margins, Carolyn M. Clark, Susam M. Hill, Deborah W. Kilgore May 1998

Incarcerated Women's Identity Development: Becoming A Self At The Margins, Carolyn M. Clark, Susam M. Hill, Deborah W. Kilgore

Adult Education Research Conference

This study explores the developmental experience of women at the margins of society. Our findings suggest that the role of connection is problematic for these women and gives rise to a self that has a restricted degree of agency, but one that is paradoxically resilient and sensitive to her social context.

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Changing Relations: Power, Ethics And Responsibility In Graduate Supervision, Valerie-Lee Chapman, Thomas J. Sork May 1998

Changing Relations: Power, Ethics And Responsibility In Graduate Supervision, Valerie-Lee Chapman, Thomas J. Sork

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper continues the dialogue between a feminist graduate student and non-feminist male advisor in an adult education graduate program: they each define the power relations inherent in the relationship, and raise questions about their ethical and moral responsibilities.

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Adult Education And The Body: Changing Performances Of Teaching And Learning, Valerie-Lee Chapman May 1998

Adult Education And The Body: Changing Performances Of Teaching And Learning, Valerie-Lee Chapman

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I discuss recent scholarship on the body and present two theoretical frameworks that attempt to explain how the body might be constituted in educational institutions, discourses and practices, and suggest these analytical tools and the literature on the body can be linked to adult education practice.

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Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity And Job Satisfaction Of County Extension Agents In The Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, Bille Chambers, A.B. Moore, Douglas Bachtel May 1998

Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity And Job Satisfaction Of County Extension Agents In The Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, Bille Chambers, A.B. Moore, Douglas Bachtel

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Organizational, job related and personal correlates of role conflict, role ambiguity and job satisfaction were examined for County Extension Agents in Georgia. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for in-service training program.

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Circuit Of Culture: A Critical Look At Dilbert And Workplace Learning, Vicki K. Carter, Sharon L. Howell May 1998

Circuit Of Culture: A Critical Look At Dilbert And Workplace Learning, Vicki K. Carter, Sharon L. Howell

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As a cultural artifact, the Dilbert comic strip has generated both amusement and consternation, particularly for corporate trainers. This paper summarizes a year of research on Dilbert and its surrounding discourse in order to extend the critique of corporate education and Human Resource Development (HRD) into the cultural realm.

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A Critical Ethnography Of Adult Learning In The Context Of A Social Movement Group, Margaret L. Cain May 1998

A Critical Ethnography Of Adult Learning In The Context Of A Social Movement Group, Margaret L. Cain

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This ethnography studied the learning among members of two groups in a toxic waste struggle with the EPA. The socio-political context, along with the members’ class, race and gender, significantly affected the members’ learning of technical and emancipatory knowledge.

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Challenging The Myth Of The Universal Teacher: An Examination Of The Experiences Of African American Women Post-Secondary Mathematics Teachers, Angela Brown Humphrey May 1998

Challenging The Myth Of The Universal Teacher: An Examination Of The Experiences Of African American Women Post-Secondary Mathematics Teachers, Angela Brown Humphrey

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Abstract: This study examines the experiences of a group of African American women mathematics teachers to see what common themes emerge. The findings reveal that the race and gender of these teachers affect their teaching-learning environment.

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Cohort Communities In Higher Education: The Best Example Of Adult Education, Paula A. Brooks May 1998

Cohort Communities In Higher Education: The Best Example Of Adult Education, Paula A. Brooks

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Cohort groups facilitate relationships that encourage learning and act as a support for individuals. The underlying philosophy of a cohort is that learners become empowered and have a sense of ownership for their academic development. A sense of respect and collegiality were the most important outcomes and experiences in the cohort groups studied.

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Qualitatively Different Conceptions Of Research: Implications For Adult Education Research, Angela Brew May 1998

Qualitatively Different Conceptions Of Research: Implications For Adult Education Research, Angela Brew

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This paper reports on an investigation into academics’ qualitatively different ideas about what research is and about what they are doing when they carry it out. It presents an overview of the literature, outlines the findings of the study and then discusses the implications for adult education research.

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Mentoring Revisited: The African-American Woman’S Experience, Breda Murphy Bova May 1998

Mentoring Revisited: The African-American Woman’S Experience, Breda Murphy Bova

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The mentoring experiences of African-American women and the potential of the experience for assisting in their career development are explored. Through in-depth interviews the mentoring influence in the career development of 14 African-American women was investigated. Findings point to barriers to the relationship and the potential of group mentoring as a way to assist in the psychosocial aspect of mentoring.

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Animating Learning: New Conceptions Of The Role Of The Person Who Works With Learners, David Boud, Nod Miller May 1998

Animating Learning: New Conceptions Of The Role Of The Person Who Works With Learners, David Boud, Nod Miller

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This paper focuses on the role of the person who works with others to foster their learning and describes our struggle to make sense of this role. We identify a perspective termed animation, consider its features and discuss issues of context, identity and relationships between animators and learners.

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Panoptic Variations: Surveillance And Discipline In Web Courses, Roger Boshier, Mary Wilson May 1998

Panoptic Variations: Surveillance And Discipline In Web Courses, Roger Boshier, Mary Wilson

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Disciplinary surveillance nested in some Web courses violates principles of adult education. Using Foucault’s notion of panopticism, the authors present a model that can be used to determine levels of disciplinary surveillance.

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Human Capital Versus Market Signaling Theory: The Case With Adult Literacy, Adrain Blunt May 1998

Human Capital Versus Market Signaling Theory: The Case With Adult Literacy, Adrain Blunt

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Human capital and market signaling theory are compared using data from the Statistics Canada Survey of Literacy Skills Used in Daily Activities (1990). The results indicate that both theories explain variations in annual income and number of weeks worked. Employers use education credentials (market signaling theory) to select employees who are then rewarded with earnings based on their literacy levels (human capital theory). Implications of these findings for policy and practice are presented.

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A Feminist Critique Of Human Resource Development Research, Laura L. Bierma May 1998

A Feminist Critique Of Human Resource Development Research, Laura L. Bierma

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This paper shares the results of a critique of human resource development (HRD) research, according to a feminist research framework. The paper offers a brief description of feminist research and challenges HRD researchers to be more critical of their practice.

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The Outcomes And Impact Of Adult Literacy Education In The United States, Hal Beder May 1998

The Outcomes And Impact Of Adult Literacy Education In The United States, Hal Beder

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This study analyzed twenty-two of the most credible outcome/impact studies in adult literacy education conducted since that late 1960s to make reasoned conclusions about program effectiveness and to identify common conceptual and methodological problems.

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Teaching Scholarly Writing To Doctoral Students: Giving Novice Scholars A Running Start, Bruce Barnett, Rosemary Caffarella, Michael Gimmestad University Of Northern Colorado May 1998

Teaching Scholarly Writing To Doctoral Students: Giving Novice Scholars A Running Start, Bruce Barnett, Rosemary Caffarella, Michael Gimmestad University Of Northern Colorado

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Students entering doctoral programs in adult education and related fields often experience culture shock. Perhaps the biggest adjustment is learning how to think and write like a scholar. This paper examines how involvement by doctoral students in a formal scholarly writing project during their first semester of study influenced their subsequent doctoral experience and professional work.

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Towards A Pedagogy For Disempowering Our Enemies, Ian Baptiste May 1998

Towards A Pedagogy For Disempowering Our Enemies, Ian Baptiste

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Adult educators seem hesitant to disempower anyone, including their enemies. This is because our humanist moorings makes us believe that all forms of disempowerment is evil. Proposed are rudiments of a pedagogy of ethical disempowerment, which I contend we desperately need.

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Stories Adult Learners Tell …Recent Research On How And Why Adults Learn, Paul Paul May 1998

Stories Adult Learners Tell …Recent Research On How And Why Adults Learn, Paul Paul

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the current proliferation of research in the study of the education of adults that utilizes the biographical or life history approach.

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Learning What? Content Or Strategies?, Cynthia Lee Andruske May 1998

Learning What? Content Or Strategies?, Cynthia Lee Andruske

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The purpose of this research is to explore what women learn in "upgrading" sessions in a pre-employment program as they make a transition from welfare to work and education.

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Talking Across The Table: A Dialogue On Women, Welfare, And Adult Education, Elisabeth Hayes, Barbara Sparks, Catherine Hansman, Mechthild Hart, Vanessa Sheared May 1998

Talking Across The Table: A Dialogue On Women, Welfare, And Adult Education, Elisabeth Hayes, Barbara Sparks, Catherine Hansman, Mechthild Hart, Vanessa Sheared

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Introduction: Welfare reform is a current societal issue of tremendous significance in the United States. The popular discourses surrounding welfare reform are extremely complex and lead to frequently volatile discussions, for welfare reform itself is not a single issue, but relates to multiple underlying issues concerning the origins and solutions of poverty and unemployment, the subordination of women and women=s roles in society, competing discourses of work and family, the intersections of racism and poverty, and the role of adult education in social change. Welfare reform as a societal issue affects us all as citizens and participants in the …

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Tabooed Terrain: Reflections On Conducting Adult Education Research In Lesbian/Gay/Queer Arenas, Kathleen Edwards, Andre Grace, Brenda Henson, Wanda Henson, Robert J. Hill, Ed. Taylor May 1998

Tabooed Terrain: Reflections On Conducting Adult Education Research In Lesbian/Gay/Queer Arenas, Kathleen Edwards, Andre Grace, Brenda Henson, Wanda Henson, Robert J. Hill, Ed. Taylor

Adult Education Research Conference

Introduction: The issues to be explored in this symposium are the multiple ways that same-sex orientation is negotiated and mediated in Adult Education research. The sociology of learning and other diverse bodies of literature (e.g. gay/queer theory) show that, in the main, same-sex orientation (matter related to Lesbians, Gay men, Transgendered, Bisexuals and Transsexuals) is treated as tabooed terrain in both the academy and society (Hill, 1995), often with grave results. In this symposium, panelist Andre Grace positions his early developmental denial of queer being and acting as a form of self-mutilation. Andre has taken up a self-directed project …

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Rethinking Participation Research In Adult Education: International Perspectives, Sean Courtney, Veronica Mcgivney, John Mcintyre, Kjell Rubenson May 1998

Rethinking Participation Research In Adult Education: International Perspectives, Sean Courtney, Veronica Mcgivney, John Mcintyre, Kjell Rubenson

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The purpose of this symposium is to analyze research on participation in adult education from an international perspective. Panelists will discuss findings from their respective parts of the world and consider how research and theory on this important phenomenon can be advanced.

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The Educational Needs Of Welfare Recipients And The Role Of The Community College As An Agent Of Social Change, Carolyn L. Browning Jan 1998

The Educational Needs Of Welfare Recipients And The Role Of The Community College As An Agent Of Social Change, Carolyn L. Browning

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The purpose of this study was to investigate two underlying questions related to welfare reform and its impact on participants in the Cumberland Plateau Region: (1) What are the training and other noneducational needs of the participants in the VIEW program? and (2) What is the projected success of the impact of the training on the lives of the participants? The research study included 47 interviews with four distinct groups of individuals--VIEW participants, case managers, administrators, and trainers. Three focus group interviews were conducted with individuals who were participants in the VIEW program or professionals actively involved in the administration …

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Teaching Across Borders: A Collaborative Inter-Racial "Border" Pedagogy In Adult Multicultural Education Classes., Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Clarice Perry Jul 1997

Teaching Across Borders: A Collaborative Inter-Racial "Border" Pedagogy In Adult Multicultural Education Classes., Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Clarice Perry

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This qualitative action research study examined how power dynamics were manifested between and among instructors and students in two graduate level classes team-taught by a black and a white female co-instructors where diversity and equity issues in education was the primary course content. The study also attempts to identify adult education practices that lead to growth and social change among participants in such classes that are at times both uncomfortable and controversial.

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Innovation As Knowledge And Learning., Taylor Rosemary Jul 1997

Innovation As Knowledge And Learning., Taylor Rosemary

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Innovative small and medium enterprises now play a vital role in the economy, but their survival often depends on being at the leading edge of their field. Without an abundance of time or money for education or training, they rely heavily on obtaining knowledge informally through a variety of channels.

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Implicit Memory And Transformative Learning Theory: Unconscious Cognition., Edward W. Taylor Jul 1997

Implicit Memory And Transformative Learning Theory: Unconscious Cognition., Edward W. Taylor

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Recent research has found that the transformation of meaning structures (schemes and perspectives) can occur without critical reflection. This phenomenon seems to be explained by a concept called implicit memory -- the unconscious development of thoughts and actions. This paper involves a review of related literature on implicit memory from the fields of neurobiology and psychology and its implications for the theory and practice of transformative learning

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A Narrative Assessment Of Synergic Inquiry: Its Effectiveness In Fostering Transformative Learning In Cross-Cultural Settings., Masaji Takano Jul 1997

A Narrative Assessment Of Synergic Inquiry: Its Effectiveness In Fostering Transformative Learning In Cross-Cultural Settings., Masaji Takano

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This empirical study examines the effectiveness of Synergic Inquiry as a practical methodology for fostering transformative learning experience in cross-cultural settings. The study qualitatively analyzes the life narratives of participants who engaged in action-oriented projects conducted abroad that applied the Synergic Inquiry framework.

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Synergic Inquiry (Si): An Alternative Framework For Transformative Learning., Yongming Tang Jul 1997

Synergic Inquiry (Si): An Alternative Framework For Transformative Learning., Yongming Tang

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This paper discusses SI which intends to help address a number of challenges facing transformative learning teachers and researchers. The SI framework is briefly introduced with the focus on how it creates contexts, processes and catalysts for transformative learning as well as its relationships with some existing learning theories.

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