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Panoptic Variations: Surveillance And Discipline In Web Courses, Roger Boshier, Mary Wilson
Panoptic Variations: Surveillance And Discipline In Web Courses, Roger Boshier, Mary Wilson
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Human Capital Versus Market Signaling Theory: The Case With Adult Literacy, Adrain Blunt
Human Capital Versus Market Signaling Theory: The Case With Adult Literacy, Adrain Blunt
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
A Feminist Critique Of Human Resource Development Research, Laura L. Bierma
A Feminist Critique Of Human Resource Development Research, Laura L. Bierma
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
The Outcomes And Impact Of Adult Literacy Education In The United States, Hal Beder
The Outcomes And Impact Of Adult Literacy Education In The United States, Hal Beder
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Teaching Scholarly Writing To Doctoral Students: Giving Novice Scholars A Running Start, Bruce Barnett, Rosemary Caffarella, Michael Gimmestad University Of Northern Colorado
Teaching Scholarly Writing To Doctoral Students: Giving Novice Scholars A Running Start, Bruce Barnett, Rosemary Caffarella, Michael Gimmestad University Of Northern Colorado
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Towards A Pedagogy For Disempowering Our Enemies, Ian Baptiste
Towards A Pedagogy For Disempowering Our Enemies, Ian Baptiste
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Stories Adult Learners Tell …Recent Research On How And Why Adults Learn, Paul Paul
Stories Adult Learners Tell …Recent Research On How And Why Adults Learn, Paul Paul
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Learning What? Content Or Strategies?, Cynthia Lee Andruske
Learning What? Content Or Strategies?, Cynthia Lee Andruske
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Talking Across The Table: A Dialogue On Women, Welfare, And Adult Education, Elisabeth Hayes, Barbara Sparks, Catherine Hansman, Mechthild Hart, Vanessa Sheared
Talking Across The Table: A Dialogue On Women, Welfare, And Adult Education, Elisabeth Hayes, Barbara Sparks, Catherine Hansman, Mechthild Hart, Vanessa Sheared
Adult Education Research Conference
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 …
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
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 …
Rethinking Participation Research In Adult Education: International Perspectives, Sean Courtney, Veronica Mcgivney, John Mcintyre, Kjell Rubenson
Rethinking Participation Research In Adult Education: International Perspectives, Sean Courtney, Veronica Mcgivney, John Mcintyre, Kjell Rubenson
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Teaching Across Borders: A Collaborative Inter-Racial "Border" Pedagogy In Adult Multicultural Education Classes., Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Clarice Perry
Teaching Across Borders: A Collaborative Inter-Racial "Border" Pedagogy In Adult Multicultural Education Classes., Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Clarice Perry
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Innovation As Knowledge And Learning., Taylor Rosemary
Innovation As Knowledge And Learning., Taylor Rosemary
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Implicit Memory And Transformative Learning Theory: Unconscious Cognition., Edward W. Taylor
Implicit Memory And Transformative Learning Theory: Unconscious Cognition., Edward W. Taylor
Adult Education Research Conference
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
A Narrative Assessment Of Synergic Inquiry: Its Effectiveness In Fostering Transformative Learning In Cross-Cultural Settings., Masaji Takano
A Narrative Assessment Of Synergic Inquiry: Its Effectiveness In Fostering Transformative Learning In Cross-Cultural Settings., Masaji Takano
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Synergic Inquiry (Si): An Alternative Framework For Transformative Learning., Yongming Tang
Synergic Inquiry (Si): An Alternative Framework For Transformative Learning., Yongming Tang
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Adult Education On-Line., Bruce Spencer
Adult Education On-Line., Bruce Spencer
Adult Education Research Conference
Does the addition of the electronic classroom change distance education from individualized study to social education? Experience suggests that it does, but computer-network distance education needs to be critically evaluated by adult educators.
Doing Cross Cultural Research In Adult Education: Methodological And Epistemological Considerations., Barbara Sparks
Doing Cross Cultural Research In Adult Education: Methodological And Epistemological Considerations., Barbara Sparks
Adult Education Research Conference
While doing cross cultural research is not new, the growing acknowledgement of the perils of crossing cultures unconsciously is gaining support and calling for change. This paper examines some methodological and epistemological considerations of doing cross cultural qualitative research in adult education. Reliance on partial knowledge and middle class cultural and political bias point to the need within the field for critical reflection on how and why empirical realities are studied in the ways that they are and at the same time require rethinking and revision of traditional research methods while designing new methods of inquiry.
The Effectiveness Of Total Quality Management: A Response To The Critics., Douglas H. Smith, Ralph G. Lewis
The Effectiveness Of Total Quality Management: A Response To The Critics., Douglas H. Smith, Ralph G. Lewis
Adult Education Research Conference
A recent paper strongly berates total quality management, claiming it is a tool of management used to adversely manipulate workers in pursuit of corporate gain. This paper questions this supposition, arguing it is the abuse of TQM by management that is at fault. Effective TQM is based on four principles, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, speaking with facts, and respect for people. It is the lack of the genuine respect for people that is the demise of most TQM initiatives.
A Replication Study Of The Attitudes Of Selected Academics And Decision-Makers Towards Adult Students., Curtis Smeby, Burton Sisco
A Replication Study Of The Attitudes Of Selected Academics And Decision-Makers Towards Adult Students., Curtis Smeby, Burton Sisco
Adult Education Research Conference
The investigation examined the attitudes of selected academics and decision-makers towards adult students 15 years after the original study was conducted, in another rural state, and in another region of the United States. While the primary purpose was to replicate the original study, a secondary purpose was to compare and identify changes in attitude.
"A Room Of One's Own": A Phenomenological Investigation Of Class, Age, Gender And Politics Of Institutional Change Regarding Adult Students On Campus., Peggy A. Sissel, Margaret Birdsong, Barbara Silaski
"A Room Of One's Own": A Phenomenological Investigation Of Class, Age, Gender And Politics Of Institutional Change Regarding Adult Students On Campus., Peggy A. Sissel, Margaret Birdsong, Barbara Silaski
Adult Education Research Conference
This collaborative phenomenological investigation reveals the experience of adult student advocates in a university setting. The setting was interpreted as being mediated by interlocking systems of oppression. Issues included concepts of class, age, gender, and institutional politics related to resource allocation and meaning about the nature and needs of adult students.
Knowledge As "Quality Non-Conformance": A Critical Case Study Of Iso 9000 And Adult Education In The Workplace., Fred M. Schied, Vicki K. Carter, Judith A. Preston, Sharon L. Howell
Knowledge As "Quality Non-Conformance": A Critical Case Study Of Iso 9000 And Adult Education In The Workplace., Fred M. Schied, Vicki K. Carter, Judith A. Preston, Sharon L. Howell
Adult Education Research Conference
The study focused on the impact of the process seeking ISO 9000 registration and the way in which learning processes come to be defined as defective.
A Sociocultural Perspective Of Knowing: A Grounded Theory Of Epistemological Development Of Malaysian Women., Lucy Earle Reybold
A Sociocultural Perspective Of Knowing: A Grounded Theory Of Epistemological Development Of Malaysian Women., Lucy Earle Reybold
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the epistemological development of Malaysian women in Peninsular Malaysia. Based on constant comparison analysis of 14 in-depth interviews, a substantive theory of epistemological development was identified, including the process of that development and cultural factors that promote changes in epistemology.
Humanism And Individualism: Maslow And His Critics., Elaine Pearson, Ronald Podeschi
Humanism And Individualism: Maslow And His Critics., Elaine Pearson, Ronald Podeschi
Adult Education Research Conference
Using broad-based literature, this study explores Abraham Maslow's humanistic psychology within the contexts of ideological criticism, 20th century U.S. adult education philosophies, and the theoretical issue of philosophical categories.
Voluntary Organizations And Nonformal Adult Education In Hungary: Professionalization And The Discourse Of Deficiency., Carol A. Pandak
Voluntary Organizations And Nonformal Adult Education In Hungary: Professionalization And The Discourse Of Deficiency., Carol A. Pandak
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explores issues of professionalization and the discourse of deficiency in Hungarian voluntary organizations and nonformal adult education. The argument is made that transformational adult education, e.g., Freire and Mezirow would be useful to dispel the myth of individual deficiencies.
Imagining And Critical Reflection In Autobiography: An Odd Couple In Adult Transformative Learning., Alex Nelson
Imagining And Critical Reflection In Autobiography: An Odd Couple In Adult Transformative Learning., Alex Nelson
Adult Education Research Conference
Adult education approaches to transformative learning generally emphasize the interpretive role of critical reflection and critical thinking. This explanatory understanding of transformative learning as autobiography claims that the learner composes their life, by using imagination and critical reflection to interpret their life story within the social context.
Academic Vs. Integrated Functional-Context Literacy Programs: Responding To The Needs Of Low Literate Clients Of Welfare., Larry G. Martin
Academic Vs. Integrated Functional-Context Literacy Programs: Responding To The Needs Of Low Literate Clients Of Welfare., Larry G. Martin
Adult Education Research Conference
The "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996" promises to usher in a new era of literacy programming as practitioners attempt to design short-term programs that address the academic and employment needs of low-literate welfare recipients. A comparative analysis of academic and integrated literacy/occupational skills programs is presented.
Factors That Affect The Epistemology Of Group Learning: A Research-Based Analysis., Victoria Marsick, Elizabeth Kasl
Factors That Affect The Epistemology Of Group Learning: A Research-Based Analysis., Victoria Marsick, Elizabeth Kasl
Adult Education Research Conference
This examination of factors that affect group learning is a first step toward developing a pedagogy of group learning, in contrast to individual learning.
The Interconnecting Web: Adult Learning Cohorts As Sites For Collaborative Learning, Feminist Pedagogy And Experiential Ways Of Knowing., Randee Lipson Lawrence
The Interconnecting Web: Adult Learning Cohorts As Sites For Collaborative Learning, Feminist Pedagogy And Experiential Ways Of Knowing., Randee Lipson Lawrence
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper describes research conducted to understand and given meaning to the experience of adults learning in cohort groups, in non-traditional graduate and undergraduate degree programs in higher education. The researcher sought to enter into the lived world of the learners to view the experience from their perspective.
How Adult Experience As A Supervising Decision-Maker Can Inhibit Learning: An Examination Of Undergraduate Senior Projects., Elliott Lauderdale
How Adult Experience As A Supervising Decision-Maker Can Inhibit Learning: An Examination Of Undergraduate Senior Projects., Elliott Lauderdale
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper reports on a preliminary investigation of a hypothesis generated from an ongoing examination of the senior research projects of a interdisciplinary adult degree program at an urban university. A review of adult education writing addressing the work of Chris Argyris reveals a tendency to overlook its application to this research problem. Does positive supervisory experience inhibit adult learning?