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Experiences Influencing Ethno-National Identity Learning: The Case Of Young Adults On The Divided Island Of Cyprus, Christos Anagiotos Jan 2017

Experiences Influencing Ethno-National Identity Learning: The Case Of Young Adults On The Divided Island Of Cyprus, Christos Anagiotos

Adult Education Research Conference

Due to nationalist conflict Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots have lived apart from 1974 until 2003. This study investigates ethno-national identity learning as a lifelong learning process among young adults that were raised during the segregation period.

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Exploring Adult Learners’ Knowledge Construction Of Social Foundations Content: One Higher Education Context, Susan Yelich Biniecki, Royce Ann Collins Jan 2017

Exploring Adult Learners’ Knowledge Construction Of Social Foundations Content: One Higher Education Context, Susan Yelich Biniecki, Royce Ann Collins

Adult Education Research Conference

This qualitative study explores adult learners’ knowledge construction of social foundations content within a Master of Adult Education program, broadening the understanding of the tenets of constructivist learning.

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Violeta Parra: Popular Educator, Maria A. Vetter Jan 2017

Violeta Parra: Popular Educator, Maria A. Vetter

Adult Education Research Conference

This study reexamines the work of Chilean folklorist Violeta Parra with the purpose of identifying her as a popular educator.

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Intertwining Retirement Education With Adult Education, Chaewon Yang Jan 2017

Intertwining Retirement Education With Adult Education, Chaewon Yang

Adult Education Research Conference

This literature review aims to explore how adult education can intervene to create a more satisfactory retirement through retirement education. Specifically, it is focused how retirement education has use transformative learning theory to interpret retirement experiences.

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Freirean Dialectics And Dialogue, John Holst Jan 2017

Freirean Dialectics And Dialogue, John Holst

Adult Education Research Conference

In this theoretical inquiry, I explore the importance of dialectics and dialogue in the work of Paulo Freire. I argue that dialectics is key to a social movement-based Freirean pedagogy.

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Graduate-Level Instructor’S Perception Of Teaching Critical Thinking, Jay Van Der Werff Jan 2017

Graduate-Level Instructor’S Perception Of Teaching Critical Thinking, Jay Van Der Werff

Adult Education Research Conference

Higher learning institutions identify the teaching of critical thinking skills to students as a goal of the academic programs offered. This study examined faculty perceptions for teaching critical thinking skills.

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Career Transition To Non-Tenure-Line Faculty: Midlife Women’S Challenges, Supports, And Strategies, Catherine A. Cherrstrom Jan 2017

Career Transition To Non-Tenure-Line Faculty: Midlife Women’S Challenges, Supports, And Strategies, Catherine A. Cherrstrom

Adult Education Research Conference

Numbers of new faculty with prior careers, women faculty, and non-tenure-line faculty are increasing. This study investigated the career transitions and strategies of women midlife career changers to non-tenure-line faculty.

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Adult Learning In Social Innovation, Cheryl K. Baldwin, Rachel Lander Jan 2017

Adult Learning In Social Innovation, Cheryl K. Baldwin, Rachel Lander

Adult Education Research Conference

A qualitative study of practitioner learning in a multi-year, cross-sector, social innovation project indicated that team-based learning associated with the collaborative program model was expansive in character and influenced organizational learning beyond the project.

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U.S. Young Adult Numeracy Skills Lagging Behind: Results From The Newest Piaac Release 2012/2014, Derek E. Holliday, Emily Pawlowski Jan 2017

U.S. Young Adult Numeracy Skills Lagging Behind: Results From The Newest Piaac Release 2012/2014, Derek E. Holliday, Emily Pawlowski

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper analyzes the numeracy skills of U.S. young adults in comparison with selected peer countries using data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).

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Playful, Intra-Active, "World"-Traveling: A Framework For Teaching Adults Across National Borders In Feminist Ways, Brigette A. Herron Jan 2017

Playful, Intra-Active, "World"-Traveling: A Framework For Teaching Adults Across National Borders In Feminist Ways, Brigette A. Herron

Adult Education Research Conference

Using poststructural concepts of subjectivities, posthuman concepts of intra-activity, and Maria Lugones' playful "world"-traveling, this paper theorizes how adult educators might work in feminist ways across national borders.

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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.

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The Impact Of Participation In Educational Programs On Elderly’S Life Satisfaction, Bora Jin Jan 2017

The Impact Of Participation In Educational Programs On Elderly’S Life Satisfaction, Bora Jin

Adult Education Research Conference

This study explored impact of the participation in educational programs on elderly’s life satisfaction. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. It showed that participation in educational programs has positively impacted the elderly.

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The Democratic Ideal Vs. Luhmann’S Autopoietic Systems In Adult Education, Jeffrey Zacharakis Jan 2017

The Democratic Ideal Vs. Luhmann’S Autopoietic Systems In Adult Education, Jeffrey Zacharakis

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper analyzes the democratic ideal and its historical importance to adult education, and then analyzes how adult education today fits Niklas Luhmann’s autopoietic systems at the expense of the democratic ideal.

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Group Size And Adult International Field Study Programs: A Literature Review, Natalia Mora, Brittany Davis, Joellen E. Coryell Phd Jan 2017

Group Size And Adult International Field Study Programs: A Literature Review, Natalia Mora, Brittany Davis, Joellen E. Coryell Phd

Adult Education Research Conference

Traveling in a group impacts the learning process abroad. This literature review examines established research about the effects of group sizes on learning when studying abroad as an adult.

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Hanging On Cliff: Workforce Development And Sustainability In The Face Of Working Age Population Decrease In South Korea, Jin Lee Jan 2017

Hanging On Cliff: Workforce Development And Sustainability In The Face Of Working Age Population Decrease In South Korea, Jin Lee

Adult Education Research Conference

To evaluate and design effective policy to mitigate, and ultimately overcome the crisis of demographic cliff, the systemic structure of labor force decrease of Korea was modeled with system dynamics method.

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“The Money…Was Far More Of A Relapse For Me”: A Qualitative Study Of Women’S Experiences Transitioning From The Sex Trade To Legal Employment, Shannon K. Deer Jan 2017

“The Money…Was Far More Of A Relapse For Me”: A Qualitative Study Of Women’S Experiences Transitioning From The Sex Trade To Legal Employment, Shannon K. Deer

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this study was to investigate women's experiences transitioning out of the sex trade, especially related to the types and contexts of learning they employed.

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Adult Education-Related Graduate Degrees: Insights On The Challenges And Benefits Of Online Programming, Dr. Mattyna Leevore Stephens, Dr. Joellen Coryell, Cindy Pena Jan 2017

Adult Education-Related Graduate Degrees: Insights On The Challenges And Benefits Of Online Programming, Dr. Mattyna Leevore Stephens, Dr. Joellen Coryell, Cindy Pena

Adult Education Research Conference

The qualitative study sought to explore the perspectives of faculty in developing and teaching on-line adult education courses in a master’s program. The Four Frame Model framed the research.

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From Cognition To The Imaginal: Fostering Self-Understanding From And Through Emotions In Adult Learning, John Dirkx, Ben Espinoza Jan 2017

From Cognition To The Imaginal: Fostering Self-Understanding From And Through Emotions In Adult Learning, John Dirkx, Ben Espinoza

Adult Education Research Conference

Based on a critical review of the literature, this paper explores the imaginative contribution emotions make to self-understanding and how it compliments the view of emotion as a form of cognition in adult learning.

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Relationships Developed Abroad: Impacts On Learning During A Short-Term Field Study In Italy, Brittany Marie Davis, Joellen E. Coryell Jan 2017

Relationships Developed Abroad: Impacts On Learning During A Short-Term Field Study In Italy, Brittany Marie Davis, Joellen E. Coryell

Adult Education Research Conference

This study examines graduate student’s experiences with personal relationships developed during a short-term international field study in Italy and how these relationships enhanced their learning abroad.

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Learning Agility: The Nexus Between Learning Organization, Transformative Learning, And Adaptive Performance, Doo H. Lim, Min Hee Yoo, Junghwan Kim, Spencer A. Brickell Jan 2017

Learning Agility: The Nexus Between Learning Organization, Transformative Learning, And Adaptive Performance, Doo H. Lim, Min Hee Yoo, Junghwan Kim, Spencer A. Brickell

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this study is to establish a model of learning agility that is connected with transformative learning and the double-loop learning of organizational learning. Also, this study aims to identify the mediating role of learning agility on the relationship between learning organization, transformative learning, and adaptive performance.

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Community Engagement In Climate Change: Models Of Culturally Appropriate Citizen Science: Theorizing From The Literature, Lisa Baumgartner, Jill Zarestky Jan 2017

Community Engagement In Climate Change: Models Of Culturally Appropriate Citizen Science: Theorizing From The Literature, Lisa Baumgartner, Jill Zarestky

Adult Education Research Conference

Climate change is increasingly affecting people in rural and indigenous communities. This paper explores opportunities for adult educators to develop and support community programs related to environmental change and preservation.

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Educators’ Reflections On Empowerment In A Gender Responsive Program For Women Offenders, Carolyn L. Sandoval, Lisa M. Baumgartner Jan 2017

Educators’ Reflections On Empowerment In A Gender Responsive Program For Women Offenders, Carolyn L. Sandoval, Lisa M. Baumgartner

Adult Education Research Conference

We explore women educators’ experiences teaching in a gender-responsive program for women who are incarcerated. Themes including fostering empowerment, motivations for teaching, and tensions teaching emancipatory content in jail.

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Exploring Programmatic Issues Which Affect Continuing Legal Education In Kansas, Holly B. Fisher, W. Franklin Spikes Jan 2017

Exploring Programmatic Issues Which Affect Continuing Legal Education In Kansas, Holly B. Fisher, W. Franklin Spikes

Adult Education Research Conference

This mixed methods research study identified common mandatory continuing legal education (MCLE) practices by Kansas providers and evaluated these against established adult and continuing education best practices.

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Inclusive Workforce Education: Towards A Feminist Pedagogy For Vocational Programs, Sarah Ray, Ovidio Galvan, Jill Zarestky Jan 2017

Inclusive Workforce Education: Towards A Feminist Pedagogy For Vocational Programs, Sarah Ray, Ovidio Galvan, Jill Zarestky

Adult Education Research Conference

Vocational education provides economic opportunity but often excludes women. The present literature review lays the foundation to develop relevant feminist perspectives and guide the inclusion efforts of community colleges.

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The Effect Of Mentoring On U.S. Vs. Foreign-Born Faculty's Self-Esteem And Job Satisfaction, Tony Lee, Doo H. Lim, Johyun Kim Jan 2017

The Effect Of Mentoring On U.S. Vs. Foreign-Born Faculty's Self-Esteem And Job Satisfaction, Tony Lee, Doo H. Lim, Johyun Kim

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among mentoring, self-esteem, and job satisfaction between U.S.-born and foreign-born faculty members in 21 research universities based on their country of origin, marital status, faculty ranking, tenure, and mentoring status.

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Evaluating The Application Of Andragogical Principles Beyond The Classroom, Keith O. Robinson, Myrah Wilson, Saishae Mcneill-Cook Jan 2017

Evaluating The Application Of Andragogical Principles Beyond The Classroom, Keith O. Robinson, Myrah Wilson, Saishae Mcneill-Cook

Adult Education Research Conference

No abstract provided.

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Utilizing Adult Learning Principles To Understand Students’ Perception Of Integrating Open-Access Resources Into Nutrition Curriculum: A Survey Research, Kathleen M. Hoss-Cruz, Haijun Kang Jan 2017

Utilizing Adult Learning Principles To Understand Students’ Perception Of Integrating Open-Access Resources Into Nutrition Curriculum: A Survey Research, Kathleen M. Hoss-Cruz, Haijun Kang

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this research roundtable is to discuss how principles of adult learning could be used to make sense of student experiences with an open-access resource used in a basic level nutrition course.

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Using An Experiential Learning Design To Teach Photography In Agricultural Communications, Lindsay W. Kennedy, Cindy Akers, Rachel B. Jackson Jan 2017

Using An Experiential Learning Design To Teach Photography In Agricultural Communications, Lindsay W. Kennedy, Cindy Akers, Rachel B. Jackson

Journal of Applied Communications

Photography is an important competency of agricultural communications graduates and is a core skill taught in the discipline’s curriculum. The [department] at [university] offers an undergraduate photography course twice yearly in two semester formats: a traditional spring semester where photography principles are taught in the classroom and a 12-day experiential intersession semester that allows for flexibility in how and where the course is taught. Both semesters utilize the same instructor, assignments, and grading rubric. While much agricultural communications research has focused on photography as a needed skill, few studies examine photography teaching methods. The purpose of this study was to …

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