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Using Oral History And Archival Exploration To Forge A Path To The Past: A Generalsurvey Of The Adult Education Opportunities Available To African American Adults Incincinnati, Ohio, 1930-1949, Lisa Merriweather Hunn
Using Oral History And Archival Exploration To Forge A Path To The Past: A Generalsurvey Of The Adult Education Opportunities Available To African American Adults Incincinnati, Ohio, 1930-1949, Lisa Merriweather Hunn
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This paper provides a local history of African American adult education inCincinnati. It identifies two categories of learning opportunities: learning in thecommunity and learning by experience. This study also identifies AAAE’s liberaleducation platform as a major influence over those opportunities because it indirectlysupported Jim Crow racism. This history of African American adult education for manyyears suffered from what Franklin (1989) called the “conspiracy of silence” (p. 44) whichresulted in people of African descent being viewed ahistorically within adult education.This history has not been sufficiently explored (Neufeldt & McGee, 1990). Most of whatis available on African American adult education looks at …
My Children First: Conflicting Choices About Education For Mothers Who Receive Welfare, Mary Ziegler
My Children First: Conflicting Choices About Education For Mothers Who Receive Welfare, Mary Ziegler
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Participation continues to perplex those who provide adult education. This study explored the reasons women who receive welfare chose not to participate in adult education programs designed for them. Countervailing forces of poverty and participants’ aspirations of a better life for their children interacted with personal, relational, and institutional factors.
Participation Training: A Model For Experiential Learning, María Del Carmen Rodríguez
Participation Training: A Model For Experiential Learning, María Del Carmen Rodríguez
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This paper introduces the principles of Participation Training (PT) within the frame of Freire’s (1970) notion of Education for Liberation and presents implications for the development of adult education, theory, and practice.
“What Would You Do In My Place?” Outcomes Of A Collaborative Health Literacy Research Study In Rural Nova Scotia, B. Allan Quigley
“What Would You Do In My Place?” Outcomes Of A Collaborative Health Literacy Research Study In Rural Nova Scotia, B. Allan Quigley
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The 1994 and 2000 International Adult Literacy Surveys found that 43% of Canada’s adult population is affected by low literacy skills, with 22% of these adults experiencing severe literacy problems. The highest rates of low-literacy skills have consistently been found in the Atlantic provinces. However, what these studies do not reveal are the life-and-death health issues that often lie beneath the statistics. To the question: “What would you do in my place?” posed to us by an unemployed fish plant worker with low literacy skills and severe health issues living in an isolated Nova Scotia community, such surveys provide no …
The Other Hidden Curriculum: On Losing Pena And Becoming Educado In A Salvadoran Adult Literacy Program, Esther Prins
The Other Hidden Curriculum: On Losing Pena And Becoming Educado In A Salvadoran Adult Literacy Program, Esther Prins
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This paper examines how participation in a literacy program in El Salvador helped participants learn new social behaviors (to speak out and to become more well-mannered), and identifies which aspects of the program contributed to these benefits. The study suggests that educators must consider the social dimensions of adult education.
Critical Management Studies Courses: Impact On The Adult Learners' Management Philosophy?, Catherine H. Monaghan
Critical Management Studies Courses: Impact On The Adult Learners' Management Philosophy?, Catherine H. Monaghan
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This paper presents the findings of a study examining the development of the adult learners’ management philosophy in a critical management course. This study found that these courses could impact a learners’ management philosophy in multiple ways within the same course.
Facilitating Learning Online: Modeling The Skills For Reflective Practice, Judy Milton, Karen E. Watkins, Michelle D'Abundo, Barbara J. Daley
Facilitating Learning Online: Modeling The Skills For Reflective Practice, Judy Milton, Karen E. Watkins, Michelle D'Abundo, Barbara J. Daley
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This study examined the interactions of facilitators in online reflective practice groups, focusing on the types of strategies used to convey these skills. Learners were found to use the skills modeled by the group facilitator, with the content of the interactions having a greater influence than facilitator style on learners’ use.
Learning Democracy Through Self-Governance: The Case Of Housing Co-Operative, Karsten Mündel, Fiona Duguid, Daniel Schugurensky
Learning Democracy Through Self-Governance: The Case Of Housing Co-Operative, Karsten Mündel, Fiona Duguid, Daniel Schugurensky
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Housing co-operatives are a unique site to learn democracy through participation in self-governance by volunteering on boards and committees. Members reported both nonformal and informal learning; the latter was particularly significant for the development of skills, knowledge, attitudes and values required for effective democratic participation.
A Step Towards Faith: A Phenomenological Inquiry Into Spirituality, Fred Milacci
A Step Towards Faith: A Phenomenological Inquiry Into Spirituality, Fred Milacci
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This phenomenological investigation examined how eight select adult education practitioners understand spirituality.
Dangerous Memories: Women Resisting Structures Of Power, Possession, And Violence, Marilyn Mckinley Parrish
Dangerous Memories: Women Resisting Structures Of Power, Possession, And Violence, Marilyn Mckinley Parrish
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As a result of involvement with the Catholic Worker movement, women learned to see the world in a new way, developing authentic spirituality, practicing nonviolent resistance to American cultural values, and trusting personal conscience as a guide for involvement in social justice issues.
Researching Adult Literacy Learners’ Lives: Journeys Of Trauma Toward Transformation, Karen Magro
Researching Adult Literacy Learners’ Lives: Journeys Of Trauma Toward Transformation, Karen Magro
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This qualitative study used autobiographies and self-report inventories to explore ten adult literacy learners’ motivation for returning to school, their experiences at school, and the barriers that most interfered with their ability to complete their studies. Another key aim of the study was to investigate the characteristics of teachers, curriculum preferences, and teaching and learning strategies that either hindered or enhanced individuals’ ability to learn
Exploring The Changing Nature Of Work And Lifelong Learning: Preliminary Findings Of A Canadian National Survey, David Livingstone
Exploring The Changing Nature Of Work And Lifelong Learning: Preliminary Findings Of A Canadian National Survey, David Livingstone
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Preliminary findings from a large Canadian survey are used to estimate the current patterns of adult education course participation and informal learning as well as patterns of paid and unpaid work. Recent trends and relations between adult learning and work are assessed. Contending theories of learning and work are also discussed.
How African Americans In Rural Areas Learn To Become Homeowners, Ulrica Jones-Hill
How African Americans In Rural Areas Learn To Become Homeowners, Ulrica Jones-Hill
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This study identified the process by which African Americans in rural areas become homeowners. By interviewing ten African Americans first time homebuyers living in rural middle Georgia and who purchased their homes through one of the Federal Rural Housing Programs within the past five years or less, it was discovered the homeowners used a variety of informal methods to gain information about homeownership.
Understanding The Factors Of Adult Learners Dropping Out Of E-Learning Courses, Ju Sung Jun
Understanding The Factors Of Adult Learners Dropping Out Of E-Learning Courses, Ju Sung Jun
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The purpose of this study is to determine the specific set of variables that can best predict the reasons that adults dropout of workplace e-learning courses. A model including the predictors of attention, relevance, confidence, marital status, number of learning hours for the course, mandatory/voluntary attendance, and hours worked per week fits well (• 2 = 75.918, df = 7, and p < .000).
Literacy For What? Contradictions In Swazi Adult Education, David Jele
Literacy For What? Contradictions In Swazi Adult Education, David Jele
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of literacy in development in Swaziland. It seeks to identify in the process, contradictions that manifest in Swazi education generally and adult education specifically. It then highlights whose interests a given literacy level – high or low - serves and why.
Social Partnership: Rebuilding Union Capacity Through Education, Michael Law
Social Partnership: Rebuilding Union Capacity Through Education, Michael Law
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This paper employs a case study approach in order to update an expand on previous analyses of developments in union education in New Zealand. This particular paper focuses on the role of union education in the rebuilding of union capacity and reflects on theoretical and practical difficulties that confront unions in the wake neoliberaism.
Living And Learning With Technology: Faculty As Reflective Practitioners In The Online Classroom, Patricia A. Lawler, Kathleen P. King, Stephen C. Wilhite Widener University
Living And Learning With Technology: Faculty As Reflective Practitioners In The Online Classroom, Patricia A. Lawler, Kathleen P. King, Stephen C. Wilhite Widener University
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This qualitative study examined the experiences of 11 faculty members who have been involved in online instruction. The goal was to explore how assuming the role of adult learners in developing online courses contributed to their becoming critically reflective about their instructional practices. Faculty interviews revealed engagement in critical reflection and were used to suggest strategies for faculty development that could further support such perspectives and practice.
Transforming Horizons: The Process Of Learning In Global Social Action, Richard Kiely
Transforming Horizons: The Process Of Learning In Global Social Action, Richard Kiely
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This paper presents research that led to the development of a theoretical framework for explaining how adult learners experience the process of transformational learning in global social action.
Complicating Public Mothers With Private Others: Eros As The Strange Attractor Of Social Action, Dorothy Lander
Complicating Public Mothers With Private Others: Eros As The Strange Attractor Of Social Action, Dorothy Lander
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Smith-Rosenberg’s (1984) term, “public mothers,” characterizes independent women reformers (typically not birth mothers), and shapes this study of three educatoractivists in Canadian social movements—Lotta Hitschmanova, Letitia Youmans, and Mary Arnold. Using historical/biographical inquiry as my methodology, I elaborate on the close relationships of these public mothers, often with a particular “great friend,” to explicate Eros as a life force in all of its embodied, sensory, and learning “elements, not only sexual desire” (Estola, 2003, p. 2). I conceptualize Eros in the quantum language of the strange attractor, that is, as a learning site around which energy clusters.
“Disposable” Labourer Vs. Active Learner: Learning For Foreign Contingent Workers, Romee Lee
“Disposable” Labourer Vs. Active Learner: Learning For Foreign Contingent Workers, Romee Lee
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This paper argues for the need to conceptualize foreign contingent workers as legitimate adult learners. By looking critically at adult learning for these workers we can begin to discuss the importance of supported adult learning. This focus contributes to the formation of a just society where every group of learners’ communicative actions are supported and not infringed upon by oppressive structural power.
Light Through A Crucible Of Tragedy: Collaborative Transformative Learning Research Yields Social Action, Kathleen P. King
Light Through A Crucible Of Tragedy: Collaborative Transformative Learning Research Yields Social Action, Kathleen P. King
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As an international group of adult educators researched transformative learning experiences during and following the attacks on the World Trade Centers on 9/11/01, they developed new understandings and a social response to the tragedy. This collaborative qualitative research used narrative and dialogue to build a greater understanding of the meaning of the participants’ experiences.
An Exploration Of Holistic And Soulful Perspectives On Adult Education And Lifelong Learning: A Dialogue In Indigenous Western Australia, Colleen Kawalilak
An Exploration Of Holistic And Soulful Perspectives On Adult Education And Lifelong Learning: A Dialogue In Indigenous Western Australia, Colleen Kawalilak
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This research, an autoethnography of an adult educator’s journey in Indigenous Western Australia, explored how ‘meaningful dialogue’ transformed’ perspectives on adult education and lifelong learning. Four specific concepts evolved from the data: the power of story; an equality of difference; the significance of space; and the experience of oneness.
Mothers’ Experiences Of French Mothertongue Maintenance: Re/Gaining Fluency In A Linguistic Minority, Isabeau Iqbal
Mothers’ Experiences Of French Mothertongue Maintenance: Re/Gaining Fluency In A Linguistic Minority, Isabeau Iqbal
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This qualitative study explores how francophone mothers, who have taken on the primary responsibility for teaching French to their pre-school aged children, explain support and barriers to regaining and maintaining their own native language when they mother in a linguistic minority.
Indigenous Learning: Weaving The Fabric Of Our Histories For Success, Angela Hicks, Randy Rowel
Indigenous Learning: Weaving The Fabric Of Our Histories For Success, Angela Hicks, Randy Rowel
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Six public housing community leaders were interviewed for this study. Four themes for recognizing indigenous learning were identified. Themes explained leadership style, validation of and motivation for leadership, and personal impact. The findings give rise to considerations of how adult educators can identify and begin to understand indigenous learning systems.
Rethinking Digital Literacies And Learning, Elisabeth Hayes
Rethinking Digital Literacies And Learning, Elisabeth Hayes
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Using concepts from the New Literacy Studies and theories of situated learning, along with an analysis of computer gaming, this paper argues for the need to rethink dominant views of adult literacies and learning in digital contexts.
Theorizing Program Quality In Web-Based Adult Education, Pamela Ann Harroff, Thomas Valentine
Theorizing Program Quality In Web-Based Adult Education, Pamela Ann Harroff, Thomas Valentine
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The purpose of the study was to discover dimensions of quality in web based adult education and to map those dimensions in a wide range of programs. The focus of the study was to develop a typology of the types of programs with respect to the quality dimensions of web-based adult education. Cluster analysis was used to develop a typology of web-based adult education.
Intellectual Colonialism Or Liberatory Education? An Exploration Of Adult Education In An International Context, Ann Harris, Helen Mf Jones
Intellectual Colonialism Or Liberatory Education? An Exploration Of Adult Education In An International Context, Ann Harris, Helen Mf Jones
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We examine colonialism through pedagogy, method, curriculum and knowledge and conclude by identifying potential for developing and developed countries to collaborate in knowledge creation. As a case study, we draw on the Commonwealth Youth Programme’s Diploma in Youth in Development. Does it deliver liberatory education or intellectual colonialism?
Technological Rationality In Five Coastal Communities Of Newfoundland: Historical And Contemporary Challenges To Lifelong Learning, Carol E. Harris, Darlene E. Clover
Technological Rationality In Five Coastal Communities Of Newfoundland: Historical And Contemporary Challenges To Lifelong Learning, Carol E. Harris, Darlene E. Clover
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The introduction of information and communication technologies into five coastal sites in Newfoundland offers both promise and challenge to a people struggling in the wake of the collapse of their single resource, the cod fishery. Our study asks again Heidegger’s question about technology: in what manner does it affect one’s very way of Being?
Programming The Public Sphere, Elayne M. Harris
Programming The Public Sphere, Elayne M. Harris
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Adult educators are not alone in their interest in a critical education for citizenship. Still, there is no tradition of applied, middle-range work with respect to programmes. This study is a modest beginning on the slippery, delicate, paradox-ridden muddle of operationalizing a critical education for citizenship in Canada.
Citizenship, Immigration And Adult Education: The Role Of Immigrant Service Organization In Building A Learning Community For Adult Immigrants, Shibao Guo
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This paper examines the founding and historical development of an immigrant service organization in Canada, and the role it played in building a learning community for adult immigrants.