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The Characteristics Of Learning In Social Movements: A Pilot Study Of An Environmental Organization, Jihyun Kim
The Characteristics Of Learning In Social Movements: A Pilot Study Of An Environmental Organization, Jihyun Kim
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This qualitative study addresses the distinctive characteristics of learning in social movements in terms of learning content, motivation, format, and outcomes. Based on the researcher’s constructivist stance on knowledge, social movement activists in a currently active local environmental organization, the Protect Elica Island (pseudonym, PEI), were interviewed. The study showed that PEI activists learned skills and knowledge about the movement, as well as suggestions for more successful organization activities. Participants reported learning about the nature of social movement participation from reflection, and the significance of their social movement activities in more passionate, self- directed, self-controlled, and self-rewarding ways than in …
Transitions From Aboriginal-Controlled Post Secondary Institutes To Public Post Secondary Institutions, Frances Hunt-Jinnouchi
Transitions From Aboriginal-Controlled Post Secondary Institutes To Public Post Secondary Institutions, Frances Hunt-Jinnouchi
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In spite of the significant strides that have been made in Aboriginal education over the last decade, a gap still exists in the number of Aboriginal students who enter and complete post-secondary education. Through a quantitative, community-based research approach the University of Victoria collaborated with the Indigenous Adult & Higher Learning Association (IAHLA) to gauge the barriers impacting transitions and identify factors contributing to successful transitions between IAHLA to Public Post-Secondary Institutions.
Transformative Learning And The Ecological Crisis: Insights From The Tao Of Liberation, Mark Hathaway
Transformative Learning And The Ecological Crisis: Insights From The Tao Of Liberation, Mark Hathaway
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The complexity and scale of the ecological crisis poses unique challenges to transformative learning. To address these, The Tao of Liberation (Hathaway & Boff, 2009) offers insights to reconceptualize transformative learning from an ecological perspective, including new ways of framing learning goals, the nature of liberation, and the process of worldviews transformation. The Tao also provides analysis addressing some of the key psychological obstacles impeding transformative learning related to the ecological crisis. Finally, The Tao outlines four “paths to liberation” that suggest concrete processes that can foster integral transformative learning.
Historical Memory And The Construction Of Adult Education Knowledge: The Role Of Selectivity In Majoritarian Narratives, Talmadge C. Guy, Lisa R. Merriweather
Historical Memory And The Construction Of Adult Education Knowledge: The Role Of Selectivity In Majoritarian Narratives, Talmadge C. Guy, Lisa R. Merriweather
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Adult education historical narratives tend to reflect a majoritarian view in which the theoretical formulations of African American and other persons of color tend to be minimized or forgotten. Drawing on the concept of counter narrative and Ricoeur’s concept of “happy forgetting”, we argue that selectivity in constructing adult education historical knowledge overlooks scholarship in the past 20 years that highlight the theoretical and programmatic contributions to adult education of African American adult educators. We offer two examples for discussion and propose that challenging majoritarian narratives involves conscious and critical reflection on historical method and the re-telling of counter narratives …
Shared Understanding?Cross-Faculty Dialogue On The Challenges And Opportunities In The Emerging Focus On Spirituality, Janet Groen
Shared Understanding?Cross-Faculty Dialogue On The Challenges And Opportunities In The Emerging Focus On Spirituality, Janet Groen
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This article presents the voices of six full-team faculty members in the faculties of education and social work within the Canadian university context who are interested in teaching courses that address an aspect of spirituality as part of the core content. Through our dialogue we had the opportunity to explore the hopes and the challenges of striving to be an undivided academic. We explored if and how our interest in integrating spirituality into our teaching practice emerged; how we understood spirituality and how this translated into our course content; and how spirituality was understood and valued by our respective students, …
The Quest For A Better Life In A Better World: The Role Of Adult Education In Advancing Inclusion Of Smgv Learners And Citizens, Andre P. Grace
The Quest For A Better Life In A Better World: The Role Of Adult Education In Advancing Inclusion Of Smgv Learners And Citizens, Andre P. Grace
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This paper investigates the space of SMGV (sexual minority and gender variant) learners in lifelong learning and constituent adult education from transnational perspectives. It discusses the ongoing fiction of adult education as globally inclusive social education. It highlights the construction of a limited social as adult education is taken up in exclusionary contexts where interest groups frequently marginalize sexual orientation and gender identity as power relationships.
Fiction Writing And Learning For Critical Citizenship:Exploring The Potential Of Reading And Writing Fiction To Foster Democratic Learning Opportunities, Patricia A. Gouthro, Susan M. Holloway, Erin Careless
Fiction Writing And Learning For Critical Citizenship:Exploring The Potential Of Reading And Writing Fiction To Foster Democratic Learning Opportunities, Patricia A. Gouthro, Susan M. Holloway, Erin Careless
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Drawing upon the results of a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funded research study, this paper examines connections between lifelong learning, citizenship and fiction writing. Using critical and feminist theoretical perspectives, the paper explores how fiction writing can provide opportunities for adult learning and can address concerns around diversity and inclusion when exploring issues around citizenship.
From Objects To Subjects: Voices, Perspectives, Histories, And Learning In The South Asian American Experience, Edith Gnanadass, Ian Baptiste
From Objects To Subjects: Voices, Perspectives, Histories, And Learning In The South Asian American Experience, Edith Gnanadass, Ian Baptiste
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Using a postcolonial lens, this paper critiques scholarly discourse on the experiences of South Asian Americans (SAAs) in the United States as being too othering and too homogenized. In most of that discourse, SAAs are treated as objects who may only be reactive to dominant society and culture; their racialized experiences are also muted. Treating SAAs as subjects, this paper presents a way to enrich their experiences, paying particular attention to how those experiences have been racialized. Drawing upon, but also critiquing cultural historical activity theory, the paper presents an alternative way to think about and empirically examine learning.
Straddling Federal/Provincial Government Relations: The Work Of Adult Additional Language Education For Immigrants’ Employment Integration, Tara Gibb
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This paper discusses some early findings from research examining the implementation of adult English-as-an-Additional Language (EAL) education policy in Canada. It examines the challenges adult language educators and language researchers encounter during the implementation of an initiative that straddles two levels of government in the Canadian federal system and is intended to assist new immigrants with settlement and employment integration.
Older Adult Education: A New Site For Colonization?, Brian Findsen
Older Adult Education: A New Site For Colonization?, Brian Findsen
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This paper argues that conventional older adult education has been captured largely by the white middle class and that social justice imperatives are missing. This form of education has been colonized by a significant minority to the detriment of a liberating agenda for many older adults.
In Conversation With John Ohliger And Ivan Illich—April 8-10, 1978, Jeff Zacharakis
In Conversation With John Ohliger And Ivan Illich—April 8-10, 1978, Jeff Zacharakis
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In April, 1978, John Ohliger left Madison, Wisconsin, for Cuernavaca, Mexico, to assist Ivan Illich and Valentina Borremans with annotated bibliographies of Illich’s writings. During this trip Ohliger used a tape recorder to audiotape his experience so he could share it with his future wife Christina Wagner upon his return to Wisconsin. These audiotapes are entirely from Ohliger’s point of view. He decided when to turn on the recorder and when to it off. This essay is based almost entirely from these audiotapes, and therefore represents Ohliger’s view of his relationship with Illich, and more importantly it provides a brief …
Cell Phones For College Teaching: A Literature Review, Tenzin Yeshi, Steven D. Aagard
Cell Phones For College Teaching: A Literature Review, Tenzin Yeshi, Steven D. Aagard
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Cell phone is the fastest growing technology among young adults. However, cell phones are considered more as a distraction in the classroom than a tool to support college student’s learning. Cell phones can be noisy and distracting, but they can also be an aid to learning (Docksai, 2009). Although cell phone is the most preferred mobile device of college students and its ownership are widespread, cell phones in general are still underappreciated in the college settings. From the literature review, majority supported the use of cell phone to enhance college students’ learning and interaction despite some prevailing limitations.
Vampires And Zombies As Critical Public Pedagogy: Using Horror For Critical Adult Education And Hrd Instruction, Robin Redmon Wright
Vampires And Zombies As Critical Public Pedagogy: Using Horror For Critical Adult Education And Hrd Instruction, Robin Redmon Wright
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This paper explores the connections among the increasing popularity of Zombie and Vampire films, and the current economic crisis, multi-national corporate abuses, over-consumption, consumerism, and environmental degradation and their effects on adult learners.
Exploring The Social Relations Of Education And Organizing In The Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign1, Sheila Wilmot
Exploring The Social Relations Of Education And Organizing In The Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign1, Sheila Wilmot
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Many of the workers’ rights activities going on in Canada today form a nexus of education, union-renewal-oriented organizing, and anti-racist social- change initiatives. My dissertation on The Social Organization of the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign (OMWC) is a case-study exploration of community and union workers’ rights organizing throughout the 2001 to 2007 period of the campaign. For my research I employed Institutional Ethnography (IE) to explicate the social relations of class, race, gender and bureaucracy. In this paper I look primarily at the relationship between labour education and workers-rights organizing goals and activities in the last phase of the campaign.
War Drums: A Retrospective Analysis Of Post 9/11 Media And The Mis-Education Of The American Public, Justin W. Williams, Isabel Araiza, Matthew Eichler
War Drums: A Retrospective Analysis Of Post 9/11 Media And The Mis-Education Of The American Public, Justin W. Williams, Isabel Araiza, Matthew Eichler
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This empirical research contributes to the critical analysis of media as a source of information and misinformation for adults; paying specific attention to the institutional nexus of political communication serving as a tool of the structural elite in bolstering an agenda contingent upon a mis-educated populous. The theoretical framework resides within the critical theory of media utilizing the propaganda model as a perspective analysis of the structural components of political communication. It adds to the continued critical analysis of media by scholars who assert that consumers of media are indeed bound to the ideological discourse as participants, and that to …
Transformative Learning Is Not An Add-On – It Is The Essence Of Adult Education, Jacqueline Warrell, Colleen Kawalilak
Transformative Learning Is Not An Add-On – It Is The Essence Of Adult Education, Jacqueline Warrell, Colleen Kawalilak
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This paper draws on different bodies of literature and explores the potential for transformational learning within the context of graduate student- supervisor relationships. The authors (graduate student and supervisor) respond to the question: How can the student-supervisor relationship inform and foster transformative learning?
Catalysts For Transformative Learning In The Making Of Scientist- Environmentalists: A Consideration Of The Lives Of Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, And David Suzuki1, Pierre Walter
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This is a study of the role of transformative learning in the lives of three well-known scientist-environmentalists. It identifies catalysts for transformative learning in their life transitions from positivist-scientists to scientist-environmentalists. The paper concludes that transformative learning was not only an individual process, but also that each scientist helped provoke a collective process of transformative learning and social change.
Learning To Lead As Learning To Learn: The Experiences Of Malay Women At Malaysian Public Universities, Norseha Unin, John Dirkx
Learning To Lead As Learning To Learn: The Experiences Of Malay Women At Malaysian Public Universities, Norseha Unin, John Dirkx
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This study examined how Malay women learn to lead within their social context. Two semi-structured interviews were conducted with four deans and two directors from Malaysian public universities. The findings demonstrate the paradoxical contexts that these women faced in learning to lead, and how they learned to navigate the multiple tensions and contradictions they faced in assuming leadership roles. For them, learning to lead is about learning to learn from and through tensions and contradictions. We discuss the implications that the findings hold for conceptions of informal learning, especially as reflected in the social context of women within nonwestern societies.
Contradictions Of Agency, Educational Discourses, And Learner Changes: Mexican Women’S Enactments Of Agency In Family Literacy And Their Community, Blaire Willson Toso
Contradictions Of Agency, Educational Discourses, And Learner Changes: Mexican Women’S Enactments Of Agency In Family Literacy And Their Community, Blaire Willson Toso
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This qualitative study explored Latina women’s use of hegemonic mothering and literacy discourses, encountered in an adult education and family literacy program. Findings revealed that participants were simultaneously constrained by and appropriated prevalent discourses to achieve goals or advance ideas that challenged normative views of women. Material and social structures also defined which and how participant goals could be pursued. Examining discourses and learner agency and constraints can assist educators and policy makers in better supporting learners to achieve their goals and to examine how social structures and hegemonic ideas shape learner lives, and expand understandings of discourses and agency.
Culturally Responsive Community Based Financial Literacy Education: Practical Implications From A Mixed Methods Study Of Financial Educators, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Edward W. Taylor, Karin Sprow
Culturally Responsive Community Based Financial Literacy Education: Practical Implications From A Mixed Methods Study Of Financial Educators, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Edward W. Taylor, Karin Sprow
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This paper provides a summary of findings of a mixed method study of 271 financial literacy educators in community-based programs and offers practical implications for culturally responsive pedagogy.
Institutional Ethnography And Actor Network Theory: The Possibilities And Challenges Of Exploring The Relational In Adult Education Research, Terrie Lynn Thompson, Christine Pinsent-Johnson
Institutional Ethnography And Actor Network Theory: The Possibilities And Challenges Of Exploring The Relational In Adult Education Research, Terrie Lynn Thompson, Christine Pinsent-Johnson
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Adult education practices are imbued with the relational and the material. Drawing on our empirical studies we explore the utility of Actor Network Theory and Institutional Ethnography—theoretically and methodologically—for adult education researchers. A brief theoretical overview of the two perspectives will highlight their convergences and divergences. We then introduce several methodological concepts to explore how IE and ANT encouraged us as researchers to unravel relations, bring relations into view, and attend to coordination/translation. Adult education is a disparate and complex field. Researchers may find the approaches useful in understanding the ways adult education practices are coordinated and connected.
Learning And Identity In Literacy Programs, Lyn Tett, Jim Crowther
Learning And Identity In Literacy Programs, Lyn Tett, Jim Crowther
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This paper argues that identity is only relatively stable and is created and re-created in interactions between the individual and the social world that they inhabit and that learning is developed through social relationships. Through a study of adult literacy learners, it shows that people are not passive but they are constrained by the socio-cultural structures within which they act. It demonstrates that negative experiences of schooling impact on learning identities but participating in programs where students’ abilities and achievements are recognised by both their peers and tutors is crucial in changing negative views of their competence as learners.
Using Metaphors To Depict Canada’S Adult Literacy Research Since The Mid-1980s, Maurice C. Taylor, Gillian Kajganich, Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier, B. Allan Quigley
Using Metaphors To Depict Canada’S Adult Literacy Research Since The Mid-1980s, Maurice C. Taylor, Gillian Kajganich, Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier, B. Allan Quigley
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This study examined the evolution in adult literacy research since the founding of The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education (CJSAE) and the rise of the contemporary knowledge base in Canadian adult literacy. Three research questions guided the investigation which employed a critical discourse analysis (CDA) method. A text analysis grid was constructed and was used across several data sources representing Canadian literacy scholarship. Results indicate that seven metaphors can be used to depict the current state of literacy scholarship. These findings shape a triangle of three solitudes: academic researchers, practitioners, and government sponsors.
Critiquing War In The Classroom: Problematizing The Normalization Of Gendered Militarism, Nancy Taber
Critiquing War In The Classroom: Problematizing The Normalization Of Gendered Militarism, Nancy Taber
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This paper describes an analytic autoethnographical research study focusing on experiences developing, delivering, and evaluating course content critiquing war from a feminist anti-militarist perspective. It discusses the difficulty of challenging societal notions as relates to gendered militarism in post- secondary classrooms at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels. Thematic findings from the research include: professional vulnerability, student resistance, pedagogical possibility, and scholarly holism. This research demonstrates the importance of not only interrogating the educational experiences of post-secondary professors, but of connecting them to complex sociocultural educational issues related to war, militarism, and gender.
Adult Financial Literacy Education And Latina Learners: A Qualitative Case Study, Karin Millard Sprow
Adult Financial Literacy Education And Latina Learners: A Qualitative Case Study, Karin Millard Sprow
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This case study explored teaching and learning in an adult financial literacy program for Latina single mothers, using a framework informed by critical and Latina feminist sociocultural learning perspectives and the transtheoretical model of behavior change. Data included interviews with program administrators, educators, and learners; class observations; and analysis of documents, focusing on pedagogy and the roles of ethnicity, gender, and culture in learning. Thematic analysis was both manual and used the qualitative software, NVivo 8. Findings indicate use of holistic approaches to emphasize community, use of pedagogies emphasizing content, process, and personal stories, and promotion of financial behavior change.
Effect Of Cueing On Learning Transfer Among Pre-Professional Undergraduate Healthcare Students Engaged In A Case-Based Analogical Reasoning Exercise, Timothy E. Speicher, Marijke T. Kehrhahm, Alexandra Bell, Douglas J. Casa
Effect Of Cueing On Learning Transfer Among Pre-Professional Undergraduate Healthcare Students Engaged In A Case-Based Analogical Reasoning Exercise, Timothy E. Speicher, Marijke T. Kehrhahm, Alexandra Bell, Douglas J. Casa
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To examine the extent of transfer of cued versus non-cued pre- professional healthcare undergraduates engaged in a case-based analogical reasoning exercise. Independent t-test analysis and effect size was calculated to assess transfer between cued and non-cued participants (N = 192). Cued participants (n = 98, M = 2.30, SD = .89) demonstrated significantly more transfer (t (175.91) = 2.65; p = .009; CI95 = (.10, 0.68); d = .39) than non-cued participants (n = 94, M = 1.9, SD = 1.14). Learning transfer improves among pre- professional undergraduates when cued during a case-based analogical reasoning experience.
How Canadian Diversity And Anti-Oppression Educators Handle The Emotional Challenges Of Their Practice, Kirsten Somers
How Canadian Diversity And Anti-Oppression Educators Handle The Emotional Challenges Of Their Practice, Kirsten Somers
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This study investigates the perspectives of diversity and anti-oppression educators working in the non-profit, settlement and education sectors in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Toronto, Ontario. The researcher explores how Canadian diversity and anti-oppression educators handle the emotional challenges of their practice. This paper also explores how language, identity and teacher recognition impact the learning process, and highlights the imperfect yet courageous practice that the diversity and anti-oppression educators in this study embark upon when facilitating discussions about diversity and oppression.
The Equity Model, Claudie Solar
The Equity Model, Claudie Solar
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The Equity Model, developed in 1998 in order to unveil inequity and to bring up equity in educational settings, is build around four axes, each presenting an inequity dimension and its opposite. The axes are: 1) Silence / Speech; 2) Omission / Inclusion; 3) Powerlessness / Empowerment; 4) Passivity / Active participation.
Certification For What? Practitioner Perspectives On The Changing Landscape Of Adult Literacy Education, Suzanne Smythe
Certification For What? Practitioner Perspectives On The Changing Landscape Of Adult Literacy Education, Suzanne Smythe
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The responses of 63 adult literacy educators to an online survey suggest that professional development and training to meet the diverse contexts and practices in the field must attend to the embedded inequalities in access to quality literacy education for low income learners, and the marginalization of adult literacy work, which persists even as successive governments hail the importance of literacy education for citizenship and employment.
The Rise And Fall Of Socialist Adult Education In North America: Theorizing From The Literature, Tara Silver, Shahrzad Mojab
The Rise And Fall Of Socialist Adult Education In North America: Theorizing From The Literature, Tara Silver, Shahrzad Mojab
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This paper provides a brief overview of literature on the rise and fall of early 20th century experiments in North American socialist adult education. Through a Marxist-Feminist theoretical framework, we examine and contrast the contributions of the folk school movement and the more explicitly socialist labour colleges to the broader field of adult education in Canada and the United States. We suggest that the demise of the socialist schools must be seen as a consequence of both internal philosophical and political struggles over the questions of gender and race, as well as the external forces of liberalism and state repression …