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Photo-Essay And Adult Immigrants’ Identities And Agency, Kay Yang
Photo-Essay And Adult Immigrants’ Identities And Agency, Kay Yang
Adult Education Research Conference
Drawing on a photo-essay creation project conducted with a group of adult immigrants in a metropolitan area, I explore how the visual method can contribute to their identity construction and empowerment and question how we know.
Contradictions Of Agency, Educational Discourses, And Learner Changes: Mexican Women’S Enactments Of Agency In Family Literacy And Their Community, Blaire Willson Toso
Contradictions Of Agency, Educational Discourses, And Learner Changes: Mexican Women’S Enactments Of Agency In Family Literacy And Their Community, Blaire Willson Toso
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative study explored Latina women’s use of hegemonic mothering and literacy discourses, encountered in an adult education and family literacy program. Findings revealed that participants were simultaneously constrained by and appropriated prevalent discourses to achieve goals or advance ideas that challenged normative views of women. Material and social structures also defined which and how participant goals could be pursued. Examining discourses and learner agency and constraints can assist educators and policy makers in better supporting learners to achieve their goals and to examine how social structures and hegemonic ideas shape learner lives, and expand understandings of discourses and agency.
I Am More From Here Than From There: The Role Of Citizenship Schools In The Construction Of Racial Identity Among Older Adult Immigrants, Luis Kong
Adult Education Research Conference
The non-formal setting of citizenship schools provide an environment for learning, critical reflection and a space to socially construct a collective racial meaning through dialogue and through a critical understanding of history and identity in the United States. This study will focus on the experiences of Spanish speaking older adult learners as they prepare for the citizenship test and explore their sense of identity as new citizens.