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Exploring Issues Of Power In Formal Mentoring Programs, Jeremy W. Bohonos, Sunny L. Munn, Tonette S. Rocco, Schane D. Coker, Myrian Herlle, Mikki L. Johnson Jan 2021

Exploring Issues Of Power In Formal Mentoring Programs, Jeremy W. Bohonos, Sunny L. Munn, Tonette S. Rocco, Schane D. Coker, Myrian Herlle, Mikki L. Johnson

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this project is to explore how power manifests within mentoring relationships that purport to reduce power distances and move away from traditional hierarchical models of mentoring towards reciprocal methods of mentorship. The roundtable will be a discussion of how power presents and can be proactively addressed in mentoring relationships.


Quiet Noise: Adult Education’S Silence On Disabilities, Carol Rogers-Shaw Jan 2017

Quiet Noise: Adult Education’S Silence On Disabilities, Carol Rogers-Shaw

Adult Education Research Conference

This literature review documents the omission of disability in adult education discourse on power distribution, access to education, and inclusion in educational settings and suggests ways to address this exclusion.


Relationship-Based School & Classroom Management, Ryan Lucas, Matt Teegarden Mar 2016

Relationship-Based School & Classroom Management, Ryan Lucas, Matt Teegarden

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

Participants will learn about the four roles of relationship-based classroom and school management in working with students of all ages. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on previous interactions with students (some that went well and some that didn't go so well), learn which role is their strength ("go-to" role), and identify the role with which they need peer support. This presentation is given lecture style with encouraged audience participation and includes plenty of laughter, practical applications, and"just-in-time" ideas to implement the very next day.


Caught In The Stormpower And Control In A Union/Management Training Program, Ramo J. Lord May 2015

Caught In The Stormpower And Control In A Union/Management Training Program, Ramo J. Lord

Adult Education Research Conference

This study investigated how a workplace educator was used as a pawn between the company and the union while delivering a safety-training program. Among the findings were training was held in contempt by union and management while safety’s exchange value was exploited.


Mapping Intersects Of Power And Reciprocity In Adult Educationdeliberative Civic Engagement And Leadership Development In Community-Engaged Scholarship, Katherine L. Davis, Brandon W. Kliewer, Aliki Nicolaides May 2015

Mapping Intersects Of Power And Reciprocity In Adult Educationdeliberative Civic Engagement And Leadership Development In Community-Engaged Scholarship, Katherine L. Davis, Brandon W. Kliewer, Aliki Nicolaides

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this work is to assist in identifying and naming dynamic relational forces that shape the effectiveness of community engagement. Understanding power from the perspective of reciprocity supports adaptive and transformational learning necessary to increase the effectiveness of community-engaged partnerships and scholarship.


Perspective Transformation Theory And The Donald Woods Experience: From Racist To Anti-Apartheid Activist, Merlene V. Reid Dec 2014

Perspective Transformation Theory And The Donald Woods Experience: From Racist To Anti-Apartheid Activist, Merlene V. Reid

South Florida Education Research Conference

This paper chronicles White South African journalist Donald Woods’ life (1933-2001) as he transformed from holding racist beliefs that Blacks were “people who were there to be your servants,” to becoming one of his country’s leading anti-apartheid activists. Adult learning and development via perspective transformation theory are explored.


Rethinking Empowerment: Theories Of Power And The Potential For Emancipatory Praxis, Thomas Archibald, Arthur L. Wilson Jun 2011

Rethinking Empowerment: Theories Of Power And The Potential For Emancipatory Praxis, Thomas Archibald, Arthur L. Wilson

Adult Education Research Conference

In this paper, we make the case that “empowerment” is still a concept which requires closer scrutiny, for both practical and theoretical reasons. Building on critiques of empowerment and on calls to more consciously address the power relations inherent in adult education, we lay the groundwork for a practical theory of action whereby education practitioners and researchers can work towards salvaging empowerment’s emancipatory potential.


Are Transformation And Power Shifts All Or Nothing Events?, Jacqlyn S. Triscari May 2009

Are Transformation And Power Shifts All Or Nothing Events?, Jacqlyn S. Triscari

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper represents a qualitative case study conducted in one organization. It examines the role of power and shifts of power in an organization during an organizational transformation, a very specific form of change in which the center core or the worldview of the organization is altered.


Exploring Theories Of Socio-Cultural Learning And Power As Frameworks For Better Understanding Program Planning Within Community-Based Organizations, Susan J. Bracken Sep 2008

Exploring Theories Of Socio-Cultural Learning And Power As Frameworks For Better Understanding Program Planning Within Community-Based Organizations, Susan J. Bracken

Adult Education Research Conference

This essay presents a discussion of the sociocultural dimensions to learning and power in Community-based organizational program planning.


Queer Race Pedagogy In Adult Higher Education: Dealing With Power Dynamics And Positionality Of Gay Students Of Color, Mitsunori Misawa Jul 2006

Queer Race Pedagogy In Adult Higher Education: Dealing With Power Dynamics And Positionality Of Gay Students Of Color, Mitsunori Misawa

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper presents a theoretical concept of the intersection of race and sexual orientation and to describe Queer Race Pedagogy (QRP) in adult higher education. This paper provides an overview of racism and heterosexism in adult higher education and the two theories that are utilized to develop QRP.