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Orchestration Of Learning Style Differences And Other Variables In An Action Learning Experience., Robert L. Dilworth
Orchestration Of Learning Style Differences And Other Variables In An Action Learning Experience., Robert L. Dilworth
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Research centered on 31 students who participated in a two-week International Action Learning Seminar in Salford, England. International participants were assigned to action learning sets on the basis of several variables. Composition of sets (six to seven individuals) was purposely mixed to enhance diversity and promote learning.
Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania's Ged Graduates Progress., Gary J. Dean
Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania's Ged Graduates Progress., Gary J. Dean
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A follow-up study of 3,099 GED graduates in Pennsylvania from 1974 through 1994 was conducted to identify changes in employment characteristics, living arrangements, and income, as well as preparation for the GED, further education, and outcomes of passing the GED. All findings indicated that GED graduates perceived obtaining the GED as extremely beneficial.
Creating Mosaics: The Interrelationships Between Knowledge And Context., Barbara J. Daley
Creating Mosaics: The Interrelationships Between Knowledge And Context., Barbara J. Daley
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This qualitative study analyzed the interrelationships between knowledge gained in continuing education programs and the context in which professionals practice. Findings indicate that the process of constructing a knowledge base was affected by the structural, human resources, political and symbolic frames of the context of practice.
Learning Within A Social Movement: The Chicago African-American Experience., Phyllis Cunningham, Regina Curry
Learning Within A Social Movement: The Chicago African-American Experience., Phyllis Cunningham, Regina Curry
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A study of the Empowerment Zone in which over one thousand poor residents mobilized to learn, create knowledge, and formulate a plan to reinvent government and alleviate poverty.
Learning Strategies In The Corporate Setting., Gary J. Conti, Rita C. Kolody, Bobby Schneider
Learning Strategies In The Corporate Setting., Gary J. Conti, Rita C. Kolody, Bobby Schneider
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The learning strategies of financial planners with American Express were assessed with SKILLS. Results with this group of professionals confirm the distinct learning strategy groups uncovered in previous learning strategy research.
The Measurement Of Participation In Adult Education., Mary A. Collins, J. Michael Brick, Kwang Kim
The Measurement Of Participation In Adult Education., Mary A. Collins, J. Michael Brick, Kwang Kim
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This paper examines the disparate rates of participation in adult education that have been reported by the Current Population Survey and the National Household Education Survey. The authors examine issues including population coverage and sampling, survey nonresponse, the use of proxy respondents, and survey context effects.
Women's Experience Of Academic Collaboration., Carolyn M. Clark, Denise B. Watson
Women's Experience Of Academic Collaboration., Carolyn M. Clark, Denise B. Watson
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This study examines the experience of collaboration for women academics in adult education. While the women describe a range of collaborative experiences, they place the greatest value on more complex forms of collaboration in which the self, the partner(s), and the work exist in a highly dynamic and interactive relationship. This study suggests that collaboration provides one way in which women are creating life-giving spaces for themselves within the masculinist culture of the academy.
The Myth Of The Universal Adult Educator: A Literature Review., Angela Humphrey Brown
The Myth Of The Universal Adult Educator: A Literature Review., Angela Humphrey Brown
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This paper critically evaluates the adult education literature with respect to how it deals with the race and the gender of the teachers as a factor in the teaching-learning environment. The mainstream literature perpetuates the myth of the universal teacher while the narratives of African American women transcend the myth.
Narratives Of Women's Sexual Identity Development: A Collaborative Inquiry With Implications For Rewriting Transformative Learning Theory., Ann K. Brooks, Kathleen Edwards
Narratives Of Women's Sexual Identity Development: A Collaborative Inquiry With Implications For Rewriting Transformative Learning Theory., Ann K. Brooks, Kathleen Edwards
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Transformative learning theory has attended primarily to cognition and our capacity to understand experience in terms of increasingly inclusive, discriminating, permeable, and integrative perspectives (Mezirow, 1991). However, it does not allow for an understanding of the intersubjective nature of meaning-making, nor does it address the workings of oppression or how learning occurs in relation to oppression. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to rewrite transformative learning to allow us to theorize the integration of the individual with the socio-historical and to enable the understanding of the relationship between individuals and social change.
Theoretical Perspectives On Preventing Fishing Vessel Accidents., Roger Boshier
Theoretical Perspectives On Preventing Fishing Vessel Accidents., Roger Boshier
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Despite the availability of new technologies, fishing vessels come to grief far too often. Prevention education is excessively functionalist and not sufficiently focused on human factors. The author interrogates the problem from contrasting theoretical perspectives and claims prevention educators should embrace subjective as well as objectivist ontologies and place power relations at the centre, not on the margins, of their efforts.
Executive Businesswomen's Learning In The Context Of Organizational Culture., Laura L. Bierema
Executive Businesswomen's Learning In The Context Of Organizational Culture., Laura L. Bierema
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Case study analysis was used to investigate executive women's learning and development in corporate culture. Eleven executives were interviewed. A model of their development is proposed, detailing their learning tactics, negotiation strategies and transition characteristics over the course of their career development.
Developing White Consciousness Through A Transformative Learning Process., Carole Barlas
Developing White Consciousness Through A Transformative Learning Process., Carole Barlas
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This qualitative case study sought to examine a process of group learning in which individuals and group experienced a transformative change in consciousness about white privilege. This study resulted in understanding one process for expanding capacities for continued transformational learning.
Imprisoned Bodies - Free Minds: Incarcerated Women And Liberatory Learning., Irene C. Baird
Imprisoned Bodies - Free Minds: Incarcerated Women And Liberatory Learning., Irene C. Baird
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Using women's literature as a medium for self-exploration for self-awareness, incarcerated women learn to free their minds from their limiting situation. Examining the model through prison, Freirian, feminist methodologies affirms its significance/effectiveness as the essential first step for saying things differently, for liberation from oppression.
Towards Fin De Siecle: A Time To Revision Durkheim's Sociology Of Education?, Paul Armstrong
Towards Fin De Siecle: A Time To Revision Durkheim's Sociology Of Education?, Paul Armstrong
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This paper builds on earlier work on values and ethics that argued the need to re-vision the ideas of Emile Durkheim, by suggesting that the argument is supported by the notion of fin de siecle, which implies that the challenges of post-modernity are by no means new, and that there is evidence of a patter or even a cycle that would seem to re-appear at the end of each century. Approaching the 21st century and the millennium, the notion of fin de siecle has additional significance. But is it merely a matter of history repeating itself? And is this important …
The Politics Of Planning Culturally Relevant Aids Education For African-American Women., Elaine Archie-Booker
The Politics Of Planning Culturally Relevant Aids Education For African-American Women., Elaine Archie-Booker
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AIDS cases are growing faster among African-American women than for any other ethnicity-gender group. Until a vaccine or cure is available, education offers the primary means to control education. In this paper, I examine a community-based AIDS education provider to determine to what extent were their programs culturally relevant for African-American women.