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Learning Lives And Reconstructing Identities Of Young Adult North Korean Defectors, Hyewon Park Park
Learning Lives And Reconstructing Identities Of Young Adult North Korean Defectors, Hyewon Park Park
Adult Education Research Conference
This study is to explore young adult North Korean defectors’ learning and identity reconstruction process within daily activities in South Korea based on Cultural-historical activity theory as a theoretical framework.
“Creating What I Think I Should Be Doing”: Contradictions And Learning Of College Job Changers, Joann S. Olson, Junghwan Kim
“Creating What I Think I Should Be Doing”: Contradictions And Learning Of College Job Changers, Joann S. Olson, Junghwan Kim
Adult Education Research Conference
This roundtable, and the study it is based on, outlines how non-faculty staff at a small college described their own workplace learning after a “significant” job change (as defined by the participant).
Everyday Workplace Learning For Immigrant Justice: Workers’ Collaboration In A Nonprofit Organization, Junghwan Kim, Sunyoung Park, Jieun You
Everyday Workplace Learning For Immigrant Justice: Workers’ Collaboration In A Nonprofit Organization, Junghwan Kim, Sunyoung Park, Jieun You
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this case study is to examine learning in the daily workplace of workers (staff members) at a leading community-based Korean-American nonprofit organization (KANPO) in a major city in the US. The study focused on the relationship among workers as a critical dimension for encouraging informal learning in the workplace. Third generation culturalhistorical activity theory, including activity system analysis, was used as a theoretical framework. Based on a theory-driven and grounded theoretical approach to data analysis, an activity named “collaboration” and its inner contradictions were identified. While the contradictions have the potential to inhibit workers’ everyday workplace learning, …
Empowering Community Leadership And Learning For Immigrant Right: A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Investigation Of An Urban Korean American Community Organization, Junghwan Kim
Adult Education Research Conference
This study aims to understand how a Korean American community organization‘s activists engage in learning throughout their daily activities for community leadership. For this purpose, the study uses cultural-historical activity theory as a theoretical framework and critical ethnography as a research method. I identified a community leadership network that includes three activities for community leadership and contradictions in the network as (possible) obstructions and potential driving forces for community leadership and learning. By resolving contradictions, expansive learning including individual transformation occurs. Based on the findings, conclusions and implications are discussed. Keywords: Learning in the community, Community Leadership, Community organization, Cultural-historical …