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Adult Education And The Arts: A Marriage Of Mind, Body, Heart And Soul, Randee Lipson Lawrence, Keith Armstron, Bette Donoho, Kristin Lems, Steven Noble, Kevin Olsen, Anne Mccrary Sullivan Aug 2005

Adult Education And The Arts: A Marriage Of Mind, Body, Heart And Soul, Randee Lipson Lawrence, Keith Armstron, Bette Donoho, Kristin Lems, Steven Noble, Kevin Olsen, Anne Mccrary Sullivan

Adult Education Research Conference

The authors of an upcoming publication on artistic ways of knowing share their findings through poetic expression.


Perpetuating Racism In The Adult Education Professoriate: A Liberatory Process For White European American Professors, Carole L. Lund Aug 2005

Perpetuating Racism In The Adult Education Professoriate: A Liberatory Process For White European American Professors, Carole L. Lund

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this case study research was to identify attitudes and analyze the behaviors of White European American members of the Adult Education professoriate to determine how and in what ways racism is perpetuated in their profession and practice.


Negotiation Of Sociopolitical Issues Within Medical Education When Planning Programs To Address Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health Care, Letha J. Mosley M.Ed., Otr/L Aug 2005

Negotiation Of Sociopolitical Issues Within Medical Education When Planning Programs To Address Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health Care, Letha J. Mosley M.Ed., Otr/L

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the issues influencing program planning designed to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care within the context of medical education. Participants will discuss the role of adult educators in facilitating responsible program planning within the venue of medical education.


The Self-Directed Learning Of Men With Prostate Cancer: A Qualitative Study, Kathleen B. Rager Aug 2005

The Self-Directed Learning Of Men With Prostate Cancer: A Qualitative Study, Kathleen B. Rager

Adult Education Research Conference

Semi structured interviews were conducted with 12 men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer and who used self-directed learning extensively in regard to their disease. The commonalities in their motivations, learning resources, learning strategies, and outcomes are discussed as well as the common themes and recommendations emerging from their interviews.


Equitable, Not Equal: Perspectives Of Community-University Partnerships Through The Voices Of Community Stakeholders, Lorilee R. Sandmann Ph.D. Aug 2005

Equitable, Not Equal: Perspectives Of Community-University Partnerships Through The Voices Of Community Stakeholders, Lorilee R. Sandmann Ph.D.

Adult Education Research Conference

Adult and community development practitioners and scholars are frequently involved in community-university partnerships. A core premise of these partnerships is that university engagement in communities is best done via collaborative, mutually respectful, mutually beneficial partnerships (HUD, 2002). Effective partnerships take time and effort and they require mobilizing resources from diverse parties with overlapping and sometimes conflicting interests. Sustaining them requires that the parties strike a balance between the interest of communities and of higher education institutions.


The Role Of Cognitive Engagement In Adult Literacy Learning, Thomas Valentine, Judy Milton, Anastasiya A. Lipnevich, Harold Beder Aug 2005

The Role Of Cognitive Engagement In Adult Literacy Learning, Thomas Valentine, Judy Milton, Anastasiya A. Lipnevich, Harold Beder

Adult Education Research Conference

Research in adult literacy has often focused on what occurs outside of the classroom. Excellent research has been done exploring the lives of learners, their motivations to attend, and how they apply new learning. However, studies focusing on the actual process of learning in the classroom have been considered the domain of content specialists in reading and math, who pay little attention to the social context of the classroom or to the social-psychological realities of learning for marginalized adults.


Racializing The Discourse Of Adult Education, Elizabeth A. Peterson, Stephen D. Brookfield, Vanessa Sheared, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Scipio A.J. Colin Aug 2005

Racializing The Discourse Of Adult Education, Elizabeth A. Peterson, Stephen D. Brookfield, Vanessa Sheared, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Scipio A.J. Colin

Adult Education Research Conference

This symposium began in 2002 as a dialogue between Stephen Brookfield, Scipio Colin III and me. The circumstances that brought about the dialogue are indicative of the need for a symposium on race talk among educators and even more specifically among adult educators. At the time, Stephen was at Harvard and because of his work there he was asked to contribute an article to the Harvard Educational Review about racializing the discourse of adult education. As a White male Stephen felt strongly that minority voices should included and proposed inviting several African American academics as well—the topic was important enough …


Challenging The Hegemony Of Western Views Of Learning, Sharan B. Merriam, Logama Doraisamy, Brian Findsen, Mazalan Kamis, Youngwha Kee, Mazanah Mohamad, Gabo Ntseane, Swathi Nath Thaker Aug 2005

Challenging The Hegemony Of Western Views Of Learning, Sharan B. Merriam, Logama Doraisamy, Brian Findsen, Mazalan Kamis, Youngwha Kee, Mazanah Mohamad, Gabo Ntseane, Swathi Nath Thaker

Adult Education Research Conference

This symposium will challenge the hegemony of Western conceptions of learning through the presentation of conceptions of knowing and learning based in alternative epistemological systems. The following views of knowing and learning will be presented: Confucian, Hindu, Maori, Islamic, and African Indigenous Knowledge.


Connections Between Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management, Elisabeth E. Bennett Aug 2005

Connections Between Organizational Culture And Knowledge Management, Elisabeth E. Bennett

Adult Education Research Conference

In the present knowledge economy, Adult Education (AE) plays an important role in creating, distributing, and applying knowledge through research and practice. AE programs are considered to be political and ethical activities (Cervero & Wilson, 1995; Wlodkowski & Ginsberg, 1995) that often occur in organizational contexts, including academic, for-profit, and non-profit groups. Organizations tend to have a predominant outlook on knowledge that is part of organizational culture (OC) (Wikstrom & Normann, 1994). A new line of inquiry, Knowledge Management (KM), focuses on how knowledge is acquired, created, and distributed (Alvesson & Karreman, 2001; Lengnick-Hall & Lengnick-Hall, 2003) within organizations. Alavi …


The Ambiguities Of Home: The Shifting Meanings Of Learning Across Spaces, Places, And Identities, Mechthild Hart, Susan Brigham, Patricia Gouthro, Heather M. Nash, Mary V. Alfred Aug 2005

The Ambiguities Of Home: The Shifting Meanings Of Learning Across Spaces, Places, And Identities, Mechthild Hart, Susan Brigham, Patricia Gouthro, Heather M. Nash, Mary V. Alfred

Adult Education Research Conference

This symposium explores how ‘home’ is a volatile mix of yearning and loss, of being at home or searching for it, and how it deeply affects all of us in a growingly interdependent as well as fragmented globalized world.


Standards-Based Leadership Preparation Program Involvement Through The Use Of Portfolio Assessments, Donald G. Hackmann, Thomas L. Alsbury Apr 2005

Standards-Based Leadership Preparation Program Involvement Through The Use Of Portfolio Assessments, Donald G. Hackmann, Thomas L. Alsbury

Educational Considerations

The school principal’s role has changed dramatically in the past few decades, moving away from management issues and into responsibilities related to leading school reform and facilitating student learning.


Preparing Educational Leaders: A Roadmap To Success, Michelle D. Young, Meredith Mountford, Gary M. Crow Apr 2005

Preparing Educational Leaders: A Roadmap To Success, Michelle D. Young, Meredith Mountford, Gary M. Crow

Educational Considerations

Many have argued that educational leadership preparation programs are under siege. Although the mounting national attention can be traced back to the 1980s and perhaps earlier, the past few years have been witness to highly objectionable media commentaries and politicized disputes about leadership preparation.


Transferring Learning From The Classroom To The Workplace: Challenges And Implications For Educational Leadership Preparation, Bruce G. Barnett Apr 2005

Transferring Learning From The Classroom To The Workplace: Challenges And Implications For Educational Leadership Preparation, Bruce G. Barnett

Educational Considerations

As American education enters the 21st century, cries for improved school performance are being voiced by parents, state departments of education, and the federal government.


Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 32, No. 2, Spring 2005, Michelle D. Young, Meredith Mountford, Gary M. Crow Apr 2005

Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 32, No. 2, Spring 2005, Michelle D. Young, Meredith Mountford, Gary M. Crow

Educational Considerations

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 32, no. 2, Spring 2005 - a special issue on "Preparing Educational Leaders."


Transformative Adult Learning Strategies: Assessing The Impact On Pre-Service Administrators' Beliefs, Kathleen M. Brown Apr 2005

Transformative Adult Learning Strategies: Assessing The Impact On Pre-Service Administrators' Beliefs, Kathleen M. Brown

Educational Considerations

The purpose of this article is to explore the effects of an alternative, transformative andragogy, i.e., the art and science of helping others to learn, designed to be responsive to the challenges of preparing educational leaders committed to social justice and equity.


Learning Outcomes Of An Educational Leadership Cohort Program, Pamela D. Tucker, Cheryl B. Henig, Michael J. Salmonowicz Apr 2005

Learning Outcomes Of An Educational Leadership Cohort Program, Pamela D. Tucker, Cheryl B. Henig, Michael J. Salmonowicz

Educational Considerations

Over the past three decades, demands on public schools have increased dramatically with a direct impact on the expectations of principals.


Educational Considerations, Vol. 32(2) Full Issue, Michelle D. Young, Meredith Mountford, Gary M. Crow Apr 2005

Educational Considerations, Vol. 32(2) Full Issue, Michelle D. Young, Meredith Mountford, Gary M. Crow

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 32(2)-Spring 2005-Full issue


Scaffolding A Student's Development Of Storytelling With Wordless Picture Books, Penny L. Beed, Ashley Shipp Jan 2005

Scaffolding A Student's Development Of Storytelling With Wordless Picture Books, Penny L. Beed, Ashley Shipp

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

According to Kathryne Macgrath Speaker (2002), "Children involved in storytelling programs exhibit improved listening skills, better sequencing abilities, increased language appreciation and more thoughtful organization in their own writing." (p.184) As Speaker indicates, storytelling can be a very important tool for learning in the classroom. Storytelling is not only important in the classroom; it is also important to society. We all know that storytelling has been instrumental in the preservation of history for centuries. It is a means of sustaining cultural activities and beliefs. According to Seth Weaver Kahan, "Storytelling is one of the oldest and most powerful devices for …


The Effectiveness Of Student-Chosen Pairs For Cooperative Learning, Robin Morelock Jan 2005

The Effectiveness Of Student-Chosen Pairs For Cooperative Learning, Robin Morelock

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Cooperative learning is a well-established technique for improving student learning. A large number of studies have shown that cooperative learning improves learning, understanding and remembering. It also helps students feel better about themselves, the class and their classmates. (Johnson, Johnson and Holubec 1993; Slavin 1991). My own experience as a Junior High science teacher leads me to agree with studies indicating the value of cooperative learning. This study, however, deals not with the value of cooperative learning, but with establishing the best grouping for cooperative learning. Research on grouping has not shown clear-cut results. Heterogeneous and homogeneous groups both seem …


Imagination And Literacy: A Teacher's Search For The Heart Of Learning, Gordon Wells Jan 2005

Imagination And Literacy: A Teacher's Search For The Heart Of Learning, Gordon Wells

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Ever since her first book, The Languages of Learning: How children talk, write, dance, draw, and sing their understanding of the world (1994), Karen Gallas has delighted and informed her readers about what primary schoolchildren can achieve when their teacher is genuinely interested in their contributions to classroom activities and, as a teacher researcher, collects and reflects on the data that they so willingly provide. This book continues that tradition, but with a significant addition. In Imagination and Literacy, Gallas continues to draw on her corpus of classroom observational data, but with a difference. Here, her focus is on the …


Forensic Science In The Elementary Classroom, Todd Campbell, Brianna Worst Jan 2005

Forensic Science In The Elementary Classroom, Todd Campbell, Brianna Worst

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

This article stems from a pre-service teacher's attempt to translate "inquiry as a theory" into "inquiry as a practice" in a science classroom. It is intended to provide a snapshot of grappling with inquiry instruction, from both a pre-service teacher and a science teacher educator's perspective, while also offering approaches for allowing students to engage in scientific inquiry by posing questions and working toward solutions. Lastly, this article offers what the teacher researcher and the teacher educator learned in the pre-service preparation program.


Bully Prevention, Kevin John Bailey, Hector Rios Jan 2005

Bully Prevention, Kevin John Bailey, Hector Rios

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

The purpose of this paper is to share with those interested parties the results of my action research study, which is how best to prevent bullying and promote prosocial interaction among a group of eighth grade students attending an elementary school located on the northeast coast of the United States. The study sprang from the need to increase the children's prosocial behaviors and state and federal mandates that require schools to address the problem of bullying in schools.


Using Reading Response Journals For Reading Comprehension, Lauree M. Buus Jan 2005

Using Reading Response Journals For Reading Comprehension, Lauree M. Buus

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

This action research study is aimed at addressing the memory issues that are seen daily in the classroom. Students in a literature-based reading program used reading response journals to assist in their reading comprehension. Anecdotal observations, journal writing, conferencing, interest surveys, and knowledge-based comprehension tests were used to determine the effectiveness of this approach. Memory has three components: sensory memory storage, short-term memory storage, and long-term memory storage. It is desirable for students to get major concepts into long-term memory and back out when needed. This process includes the steps of encoding, storage, retrieval, and reporting. Many factors can influence …


Math By Design, Dave Burghardt, Christine Krowles Jan 2005

Math By Design, Dave Burghardt, Christine Krowles

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Imagine a mathematics classroom where students eagerly arrive and do not want to leave, where students help one another, where deep understanding of mathematical concepts occurs, verified by multiple assessments, and where multiple modes of learning are designed into learning experiences. We were able to turn this imagined classroom into reality. How did we do it? Christine Krowles is a fifth grade mathematics teacher and Dave Burghardt a university professor. They co-designed the unit, Christine implemented the unit, Dave periodically visited the class, and they collaborated on the written analysis.


Editorial Introduction, Gordon Wells Jan 2005

Editorial Introduction, Gordon Wells

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

As the result of a number of problems, this issue has been a long time in coming. But, as usual, it contains a collection of stimulating articles that each, in its way, reports an attempt to bring about improvement in the quality of learning in a particular setting. Providing a common thread across these articles is the issue of motivation, which is both a prerequisite for, and an outcome of, the kinds of learning that aim for understanding and are the basis for effective and responsible action.