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Adult Education And The Body Politic: Radical Intervention Or Palliative Care?, Garnet Grosjean
Adult Education And The Body Politic: Radical Intervention Or Palliative Care?, Garnet Grosjean
Adult Education Research Conference
Problems of legitimation have eroded adult education’s distinctiveness and sense of social purpose. Attempts are made to diagnose the condition of adult education and determine the etiology of the crisis.
Adult Education As Building Community: The Parameters And Realities Of Enterprise Identity In North America (1945-70), André P. Grace
Adult Education As Building Community: The Parameters And Realities Of Enterprise Identity In North America (1945-70), André P. Grace
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper takes up aspects of building community in North American adult education (1945-70). It looks at adult education’s efforts to build community in itself and explores the degree to which the enterprise built community in education and society.
Knowing The Self Through Fantasy: Toward A Mytho-Poetic View Of Transformative Learning, John M. Dirkx
Knowing The Self Through Fantasy: Toward A Mytho-Poetic View Of Transformative Learning, John M. Dirkx
Adult Education Research Conference
Research suggests that adult learning can have a profound effect on our sense of self. Emergence of transformational theory provides a framework for understanding these processes of self-knowing. Yet, this research and theory is dominated by an heroic perspective, in which transformation results from hard effort of a rational ego. Relying on a philosophy of imagination and Jungian psychology, transformative learning is re-visioned here as a journey of soul, in which image and fantasy mediate processes of self-knowing.
The Formation Of Identity In High-Achieving, Mexican-American Professional Women, Esmeralda De Los Santos
The Formation Of Identity In High-Achieving, Mexican-American Professional Women, Esmeralda De Los Santos
Adult Education Research Conference
This study examines how ten, high-achieving, professional Mexican-American women negotiate the Mexican-American and Anglo cultures and identifies what impact this negotiation has on their sense of identity. The women's early socialization determines whether they acculturate to the dominant culture; irritate it; adapt to it; or reject it.
Vital Work: Adult Development Within The Natural Workplace, Terri A. Deems
Vital Work: Adult Development Within The Natural Workplace, Terri A. Deems
Adult Education Research Conference
This phenomenological study explores meaning and experience within the natural workplace. The educative potential is revealed through the organizations’ quest to nurture the human spirit at work and to create a more socially just work society. Findings illuminate conditions most conducive to growth and development within the context of work.
The Relationship Of Adult Education Faculty To Their Schools Of Education, Michael Day, Donna Whitson, Donna Amstutz
The Relationship Of Adult Education Faculty To Their Schools Of Education, Michael Day, Donna Whitson, Donna Amstutz
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This paper reports the findings of a descriptive study examining the relationship of adult education faculty to their schools of education. Comparing responses among adult education faculty, deans of their schools, and a comparable number of deans without adult education faculty, it was found that generally deans considered the lifelong learning theme more meaningful and relevant to their schools than did adult education faculty and that minimal collaboration exists between adult education faculty and their school of education colleagues especially in the preparation of beginning K-12 teachers. Factors that may enhance the worth of adult education in academic settings are …
Novice To Expert: How Do Professionals Learn?, Barbara J. Daley
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.
Development Of An Instrument For Identifying Groups Of Learners, Gary J. Conti, Rita C. Kolody
Development Of An Instrument For Identifying Groups Of Learners, Gary J. Conti, Rita C. Kolody
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Incarcerated Women's Identity Development: Becoming A Self At The Margins, Carolyn M. Clark, Susam M. Hill, Deborah W. Kilgore
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.
Changing Relations: Power, Ethics And Responsibility In Graduate Supervision, Valerie-Lee Chapman, Thomas J. Sork
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.
Adult Education And The Body: Changing Performances Of Teaching And Learning, Valerie-Lee Chapman
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.
Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity And Job Satisfaction Of County Extension Agents In The Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, Bille Chambers, A.B. Moore, Douglas Bachtel
Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity And Job Satisfaction Of County Extension Agents In The Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, Bille Chambers, A.B. Moore, Douglas Bachtel
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Circuit Of Culture: A Critical Look At Dilbert And Workplace Learning, Vicki K. Carter, Sharon L. Howell
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.
A Critical Ethnography Of Adult Learning In The Context Of A Social Movement Group, Margaret L. Cain
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.
Challenging The Myth Of The Universal Teacher: An Examination Of The Experiences Of African American Women Post-Secondary Mathematics Teachers, Angela Brown Humphrey
Challenging The Myth Of The Universal Teacher: An Examination Of The Experiences Of African American Women Post-Secondary Mathematics Teachers, Angela Brown Humphrey
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Cohort Communities In Higher Education: The Best Example Of Adult Education, Paula A. Brooks
Cohort Communities In Higher Education: The Best Example Of Adult Education, Paula A. Brooks
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Qualitatively Different Conceptions Of Research: Implications For Adult Education Research, Angela Brew
Qualitatively Different Conceptions Of Research: Implications For Adult Education Research, Angela Brew
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Mentoring Revisited: The African-American Woman’S Experience, Breda Murphy Bova
Mentoring Revisited: The African-American Woman’S Experience, Breda Murphy Bova
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
Animating Learning: New Conceptions Of The Role Of The Person Who Works With Learners, David Boud, Nod Miller
Animating Learning: New Conceptions Of The Role Of The Person Who Works With Learners, David Boud, Nod Miller
Adult Education Research Conference
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.
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
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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.
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.