Pre-Conferences Schedule General Information
Draft Schedule - Updated June 2, 2014; 12:10pm
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
7:30-8:30 am |
Registration [Gallery Lounge] |
Breakfast [Special Events Room] |
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8:30-12:00 am |
Registration [Gallery Lounge] |
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9:00-12:00 am |
Asian Diaspora [310E] |
African Diaspora [338W ] |
Adult Education in the Health & Medical Professions [Penn State Hershey Milton S. Hershey Medical Center] |
12:00-1:00 pm | LUNCH [Special Events Room] | ||
1:00-5:00 pm |
Asian Diaspora [310E] |
African Diaspora [338W] |
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4:00-6:00 pm |
Registration [Sheraton] |
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6:00-8:00 pm |
Opening Reception [Sheraton] |
Thursday, June 5, 2014
7:30-8:30 am |
Registration (outside of Student Center) [CUB Student Center] |
Morning Refreshments [CUB Quiet Study] |
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8:30-10:30 am |
Registration (start approx 10:00 am) [Gallery Lounge] |
Opening Session: Meredith larson (IES) and Heidi Silver-Pacuilla (OVAE) The Federal Response to PIAC Findings: A call for Research, Engagement, and Action [CUB Student Center] |
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11:00 - 11:45 am |
(1) Lisa Ruth-Sahd Responding to Quiet Students: Implications for educators and advisors [306E] |
(2)Andreas Bock, Saskia Eschenbacher. The Social Construction of Threats: The Iran Nuclear Crisis as a Textbook Example for Jack Mezirow's Transformative Learning Theory [308E] |
(3) Jon Rizzo, Alexandra Bell. Patients' Mental Models and Adherence to Outpatient Physical Therapy Home Exercise Programs [310E] |
(4) Shivaani A. Selvaraj. Institutional Ethnography, Adult Education and Program Planning: A Contribution to Critical Research [311E] |
RT 1: Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Brid Connolly. Theorizing Radical Practice: Community Arts and Transformative Learning RT 2: Glenn Palmer, Lorenzo Bowman. The Application of Transformative Learning Theory to Online Teaching [314E] |
(5) Anita Pachner. Grounded (re)construction of the self-reflection core competence from statements of adult education professionals [315E] |
(6) Susan Birden Healed Femurs and Artistic Toeholds: Making the Case for "Re-gifting" Learners' Educational Confessions [316E] |
RT 3: Reginald C. Jackson. The Continued Impact of Institutional Racism of African America Men in Corporate America: the Need for Intra-racial Mentoring RT 4: Catherine A. Hansman, Amy D. Rose. Where do we go from here? The ebbs and flows of professional adult education [ 338E] |
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(7) Duane Akroyd, Deborah Engle An Examination of the Levels and Differences in Organizational Commitment of Full Time and Part Time Community College Faculty [341E] |
(8) Sarah Fishback, Kevin Shea, Maria Clark Impact of combat experiences on veteran students in adult learning environments: Two research perspectives [338W] |
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12:00-1:00 pm | LUNCH [Special Events Room] | |||
1:10-1:55 pm |
(9) Larry G. Martin. A New Model for Adult Literacy Education: Technology-Based Concept Mapping in GED Preparation [306E] |
(10 ) Katharine Preissner, Lisa M. Baumgartner. "A Group of Me's": Learning Through Group Process for People Living with Multiple Sclerosis [308E] |
(11) Kim L. Niewolny, Philipp D'Adamo-Damery. Learning from Practice Stories & Reflective Practice: A Narrative Analysis of Community-based Activism by Community Food System Practitioners [310E] |
(12) Karen L Milheim and Christy Fraenza. Identifying and Understanding Cultural Differences in the Online Classroom [311E] |
Opening Session Speaker RT 5: Meredith Larson. Planning Ahead: A discussion about IES funding opportunities for adult education research [314E] |
(13) Leanne Dzubinski. Teaching Presence: Co-creating a multi-national online learning community in an asynchronous classroom [315E] |
(14) Michael Porterfield. The Religious Formation of Graduate Ministry Students in an Online Wisdom Community [316E] |
RT 6: Open RT 7: Cathy Mullett, Ruby Cain . Through the Looking Glass of Digital Storytelling in Adult Education [338E] |
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(15) Soni Simpson, Wendy Yanow, Tania Giordani. An Adult Cohort Success Model: From Crying Shame Governance to Collaborative Community [341E] |
(16) Merlissa C. Alfred, Mary V. Alfred. Leadership of Adult Education and Family Literacy Organizations in an Era of Diminishing Resources [338W] |
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2:05-2:50 pm |
(17) Susan O'Hara, Robert Pritchard, Jeff Zwiers. The Academic Language Development Program: A Capacity-building Approach to Supporting Secondary Teachers of English [306E] |
(18) Norissa Newton, Janelle Cambridge, Yvonne Hunter-Johnson. Teachers' Perceptions of Inclusive Education and its Implication for Adult Education in the Bahamas [308E] |
(19): Open [310E] |
(20) Tara Thompson, Susan Barcinas. A Case Study of Female Adult Learners in Community Colleges: Understanding Multiple Role Navigation [311E] |
RT 8: Margena A. Christian. John H. Johnson's Re-Education of African Americans Through The Selfethnic Liberatory Nature of Magazines RT 9: Richard A. Prayson, Catherine H. Monaghan. Transforming Learners' Engagement: Reflections on a Continuing Education Medical Program [ 314E] |
(21) Valerie Ambrose. Developmental and Adult Basic Education Motivation and Optimism/Helplessness Model [315E] |
(22) Agnes S. Thomas. Asian Immigrant Women and their informal work in Canada: The Process of Change [316E] |
RT 10: Chad Hoggan, Lauren Pellegrino. Female Veterans Transitioning to Community College: A Case Study RT 11: Darcia L. Simpson, Elice Rogers, Catherine A. Hansman Jonathan E. Messemer. Making Meaning of the Retirement Portfolio and its Impact on learning in the Third Age [338E] |
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(23) Alisa Belzer and Amy Pickard. Framing Adult Learners: From Heroic Victim to Capable Comrade [341E] |
(24) Ana Patricia Aguilera Hermida. "Sharing Wisdom-Compartiendo sabiduría" An educational program for the Elderly Latino Population in the Greater Harrisburg Area [338W] |
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2:50-3:10 pm | BREAK [Special Events Room] | |||
3:10-3:55 pm |
(25) Alfred A.Z. Siha. Critical Pedagogy, Discourse Tensions, and the Basic Writing Classroom: A Critical Action Research Study [306E] |
(26) Kimeka Campbell. 1964-2014: Re-imagining the Afri-Caribbean Diaspora: Conversations on the role of place in knowledge construction for Trinbagonians to Brooklyn, New York [308E] |
(27) Barbara Varner, Irene Baird. The Journey of a Successful Ex-Offender: A Case Study [310E] |
(28) Jeffrey Zacharakis Phenomenology of Adult Education as an Interdisciplinary Field: Revisiting Sherman Stanage [311E] |
RT 12: Kathy M. Bonnar and Judy L. Skorek Workplace Bullying: Implications for Adult Educators RT 13: Shelbee R. Nguyen. Emancipated, Empowered & Employable: Middle Eastern Womens' Transformative Experiential Learning [ 314E] |
(29) Bo Chang. Community as an open site of adult education [315E] |
(30) Raimundo Gaby, Welton Kwong, Elizabeth Rosini and Ramone Segree. Arts as a Catalyst for Adult Learning [316E] |
RT 14: Delores Rice, Petra Robinson. Teaching Diversity and Social Justice in Adult and Higher Education Contexts RT 15: Ellen Scully-Russ. Transtitional Learning in a Transitional Labor Market [ 338E] |
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(31) Jannette Wei-Ting Wang. How adult educators' positionality impact the learners in the literacy programs for foreign spouses in Taipei County, Taiwan [341E] |
(32) Jaye Jones, Diane Ramdeholl. Weaving Quilts: Remaking and Reimagining Women's Spaces and Places in Adult Literacy [338W] |
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4:05-4:50 pm |
(33) Beatrix Palt. Personal Skills and Personality Development in Project Management Training - as they Apply in Germany [306E] |
(34) Jennifer A. Tobin, Elizabeth J. Tisdell. "I know Down to My Ribs": An Action Research Study on the Emobodied Adult Learning of Creative Writers [308E] |
(35) Lawrence Bryant, Paulette Isaac-Savage, Lorenzo Bowman. Reflections on the Spirituality of Three Black Gay Men [310E] |
(36) Jeffrey A. Ritchey and Nurhaya Muchtar. Indonesian Pesantren and Community Social Change: Moderate Islam's Use of Media and Technology for Non-Formal, Community-Based Education [311E] |
RT16: Geleana Drew Alston. To GT or Nor to GT…What's a Girl To Do? A Look into Feminist Grounded Theory RT17: Catherine H. Monaghan. Counter Narrative: Dr. Charles S. Johnson's Influence on Myles Horton and Highlander [ 314E] |
(37) Nozella L. Brown. What's for Dinner? How Perceived Self-Efficacy Influences the Dietary Habits of Low-Income African American Mothers [315E] |
(38) Lisa M. Baumgartner. "It made me a more self-directed learner": The non-formal, informal and transformative learning of People Living with HIV/AIDS [316E] |
RT 18: Fujuan Tan. Probing the Facilitation of international adult students' multi-fold transformation: A qualitative approach RT 19: Jennifer L. Pemberton Breastfeeding as Activism: Moving from Oppression to Emancipation [ 338E] |
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(39) Andrea Nikischer. Dreams Deferred: The Impact of Sexual Assault during Adolescence on the Educational Outcomes and Life Choices of Women [341E] |
(40) Ana Zorrilla. Adult Education for Critical Consciousness: Luis Camnitzer and His Art as Critical Public Pedagogy [338W] |
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5:30-6:30 pm |
Planning Meetings - Commission of Professors of Adult Education [Sheraton] |
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6:00-8:00 pm |
Penn State Alumni Reception [Sheraton] |
Friday, June 6, 2014
7:30-8:30 am |
Morning Refreshments [CUB Quiet Study] |
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8:30 - 9:15 am |
(41) K.P. Joo. A Critical Analysis of Contradictions in Open & Distance Higher Education Using Cultural-Historical Activity Theory [306E] |
(42) Abigail Konopasky and Earle Reybold. Designing for Metaphor in a Study of Adult Educators: An Exploration and Critique of Metaphor Analysis [308E] |
(43) Mark Abendroth. Adult Education at Risk: Fronts of Resistance to Neoliberalism [310E] |
(44): Open [311E] |
RT 20: Open RT 21: Robert G. Bryant, Talmadge Guy. A exploration of professional learning for Chief Diversity Officers in higher education [314E] |
(45) Tiffany L. Whitcomb, Edward W. Taylor. Situated Learning and the Development of Relationships: Bridging the Gap between Veterinarians and Researchers [315E] |
(46) Thomas G. Archibald Evidence in Practice: A Study of "Evidence-Based" Non-Formal Education [316E] |
RT 22: Jihyun Kim, Thomas Valentine. Investigating Adult Education for Immigrants in South Korea RT 23: Kristen Karnish. Examination of physical therapists understanding of geriatric patient advocacy [338E] |
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(47) Susan M. Yelich-Biniecki, Simone C.O. Conceição. Engaging Learners in Critical Analysis Through Concept Maps: From Theory to Practice [341E] |
(48) Junghwan Kim, Hyewon Park, In Tak Kwon, Pyeong Su Yu. Critical Review of Credit Bank System in South Korea: A New Mediator for Lifelong Learning? [338W] |
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9:25 - 10:10 am |
(49) Tetyana Kloubert. The role of adult education in the process of rethinking the past and its impact on democratization. A case study in Eastern Europe [306E] |
(50) Stacey Robbins. Entrepreneurial Learning and Innovation: Preliminary Findings from a Validation Study of Assessment Instrument [308E] |
(51) Susan Imel and Gretchen Bersch. Unsung Heroines: Early Women Contributors to Adult Education [310E] |
(52) Audrey M. Dentith. Envisioning an Ecojustice Adult Education [311E] |
RT 24: Xi Yu. Discussion on Cross-Cultural Collaboration for Vacational Teacher Education among US and Chinese Institutions RT 25: Ted McCadden The Role of 'Me' in Method Acting: A Narrative Exploration of the Impact of Acting on Adult Identity [314E] |
(53) Peter H. Sawchuk. Understanding a Dialectical Materialist CHAT perspective on Social Movement Learning [315E] |
(54) Brendaly Drayton. The Clown, the Criminal, and the Dummy: Alternate Interpretations of Oppositional Behaviors [316E] |
RT 26: Norina L. Columbaro, Catharine A. Hansman. Mentoring Relationships and Experiences in Online Doctoral Education: Perceptions, Reality, and Action RT 27: Oleksandra Sehin. Complexity of culture and challenges to learning: A case study of Eastern European perspectives on learning [338E] |
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(55) Marguerite A. Welch. What's It Like to Be White?: Understanding the Decision to Learn About Being White [341E] |
(56) Colleen Shaughnessy, Esther Prins, Margaret Hopkins. Adults Learning about Shale Gas Development: Information Sharing, Community Engagement, and Critical Science Literacy [338W] |
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10:10 - 10:30 | Break - Registration [Gallery Lounge] | |||
10:30- 11:15 am |
(57) Jeffrey A. Russell and Kellee R. Vess. CARING: A Conceptual Model for Promoting Student Well-Being [306E] |
(58) Crystal Loose. Building Pathways For Future Learning with Japanese Lesson Study [308E] |
(59) Charles D. Vance. How Army Officers Attending the Command and General Staff Officer's Course Decide Whether or Not to Pursue a Master's Degree: Factors that Impact their Decision and Unexpected Themes that Emerged [310E] |
(60) Elizabeth Tisdell, Robin Redmon Wright, Edward Taylor, Perdeta L. Bush, Anne Greenawalt. Adult Education Faculty and Programs in North America: Faculty Background, Work and Satisfaction [311E] |
RT 28: Tereza Cristina C. Valverde. Socialization and Learning of Foreign Adult Learners: Challenges and Needs RT 29: Tamera Humbert, Charla Lorenzen. Preparing Students and Faculty to Engage in Interdisciplinary Research: Are We Up to the Challenge? [314E] |
(61) Auburn E. Ellis. Exploring Artistic Practice in Global Communties of the African Diaspora [315E] |
(62) Kayon K. Murray. Faculty Professional Development - A Virtual Reality? A Critical Literature Review of Online Communities of Practice in Post-Secondary Settings [316E] |
RT 30: Paula E. McBride. A Phenomenological Case Study of Preparedness for Public Interest Lawyers RT31: Open [338E] |
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(63) Dana Naughton. Learning by Adoption: The Intercountry Adoption Experience of Canadian and Dutch Adoptive Parents from Children from the U.S. [341E] |
(64): Open [338W] |
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11:25 am - 12:10 pm |
(65) Blair W. Toso, Esther S. Prins, Kimeka Campbell, Barbara Schaefer, Dawn P. Witherspoon, Susan Woodhouse. You have to be proactive with your child's helath: Learning and health literacy among caregivers of children with ADHD [306E] |
(66) Leona English. Harriett Rouillard: "The Stamp of its Editor" on CAAE's Food for Thought [308E] |
(67) Saida Mamedova. A Fresh Look at Adult Skills in the U.S. and Around the World: Key findings from the Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies [310E] |
(68) Anna-Maria Kamin. Professional Care Workers' Patterns of Occupational-Biographical Learning [311E] |
(69) Carrie L. Pucino. Transforming Compassion: Examining the Development of Compassion in Nursing Who Become Patients [315E] |
(70) Christos Anagiotos. Is national identity learned? The case of Turkish-Cypriot young adults in Cyprus [316E] |
(71) Ruby Cain Show Me the Value of the Training: Continuing Education for Survival [341E] |
(72): Open [338W] |
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Symposium Emily Kearns Burke, Kris Conmy, Audrey M Dentith, Daniel K Frimpong, Sarah Herchel, Barbara Nadeau, Jennifer Saunders, Elizabeth Sanders and Nancy Winfrey Adult Environmental Education and the Cultural Commons: A Study of the Community Practices for a Just and Sustainable World [Auditorium (231C)] |
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12:30 - 2:30 pm | Business Lunch [CUB Student Center & Quiet Study] | |||
2:50 - 3:35 pm |
(73) Megan M. Seibel, Rick D. Rudd. Development of Peer Educators within Paraprofessional Community-Based Adult Education Models: An Experiental Learning Perspective [306E] |
(74) Ericka Turley. Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Uncovering Hegemonic Practice While Trying to Create Change [308E] |
(75) Ernie Post. Garrison's Self-Directed Learning Model: A Qualitative Study With Nascent Entrepreneurs [310E] |
(76) Norma Nerstrom. An Emerging Model for Transformative Learning [311E] |
RT 32: Lee Nabb, Daryl Privott. Legal Content in Adult Education Graduate Curricula: Moving Forward RT 33: Michael G. McVey Best Practices for Faculty Training in Distance Education [314E] |
(77) Jihyun Kim. Marriage-Immigrant Wives' Acculturation and Learning Experiences in South Korea [315E] |
(78) Jill Zarestky. Crafting Better Futures: An NGO's Educational Programs for Women Artisans in West Africa [316E] |
RT 34: Michele Mont. The Use of Debates in Higher Education Classrooms RT 35: Michelle Covert. Understanding the Work/Life Balance of Student-Mothers in Online Graduate Programs [338E] |
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(79) JungEun Lee, Aliki Nicolaides. Exploring Transformative Relationship in a Virtual Learning Environment [341E] |
(80) Kellee R. Vess and Jeffrey A. Russell. Creating a Caring Culture: Exploring the Implications of Gratitude in Adult Education [338W] |
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3:45 pm - 4:30 pm |
(81) Rick Shearer, Andrea Gregg, K.P. Joo, Kimberly Graham. Transactional Distance in MOOCS: A Critical Analysis of Dialogue, Structure, and Learner Autonomy [306E] |
(82) Maureen Coady. Adult Education for health and wellness: A 'state of the field' review of emergent literature [308E] |
(83) Lucas Hill, John Bonnell, John Dirkx, Tom Smith. Multi-sector Collaboration for Capacity Building in Developing Countries: A Context for Theorizing Transformative Learning at a Systems Level [310E] |
(84) Lyn Tett. Literacy, Learning and 'Participatory Parity' [311E] |
RT 36: Jennifer Murray. Pursuing Lifelong Dreams: Novelists Who Publish After 40 RT 37: Open [314E] |
(85) Hyewon Park, Junghwan Kim. Identity Formation among North Korean Defectors in South Korea: Implications from a Socio-Cultural Learning Theoretical Lens [315E] |
(86) Maria Liu Wong, Lyle Yorks. Teaching and Learning for Critical Reflection on Diversity: The Need to go Beyond the Western Perspective in a Doctoral Program in Adult Education [316E] |
RT 38: Ayman A. Khatib. Arab Americans' Perceptions of Police Post 9/11 in Metropolitan Milwaukee RT 39: Abbe Edelson, Martin Gerwin, Israt Ahmed. Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning in Response to the Mimico Secondary Plan [338E] |
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(87) Paula M. Plageman. Lives Behind the Faces: Perceived influence of Families on Female Adult Learners [341E] |
(88) Randee Lipson Lawrencen. When Teaching is Joyfully Subversive: Toward a Holistic Curriculum for Adult and Higher Education [338W] |
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5:30 - 6:30 pm |
Writing for the AEQ, Journal of Transformative Learning and Adult Learning Information Session [Sheraton] |
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6:30 - 8:30 pm |
Editor's Meeting [Sheraton] |
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6:30 - 9:30 pm | Graduate Student "Game Night" [Sheraton] |
Saturday, June 7, 2014
7:30-8:30 am |
Registration [Gallery Lounge] |
Morning Refreshments [Special Events Room] |
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8:30 - 9:15 am |
(89) Melissa J. Snyder. Reconnecting with Your Passion: Story and Professional Nursing [306E] |
(90) Melody Thompson, Jinjie Wang. The Ethics of Unlocking a Billion More Brains [308E] |
(91) Tangyie Evani, Beatrice Kom, Edmond Biloa, Sonny Roland Balinga. Cross Cultural Learning at a Crossroad: Making a Difference in Intercultural Adult Education in Sub-Saharan Africa [310E] |
(92) Saskia Eschenbacher. Transformative Learning Theory and the missing focus: How to enable Perspective Transformation through communication [311E] |
(93) Janet A. DeRosa. Mexican Americans in Higher Education: A Qualitative Study [314E] |
(94) Amy D. Rose, Marion Fleige. Making a choice? Vocational training and decision-making for the undereducated and the unemployed in Germany and the United States [315E] |
(95) Patricia L. Erwin. Culturally Relevant Programming in Action: A Case Study of a Marriage Education Program for African American Couples [316E] |
RT 40: Ramona T. Sharpe, Tamara Kelley. Self-Directed Learning and Technology: Implications for Adult Education RT 41: Kristi Archuleta Frush Faculty Perspectives: The Diffusion of Competency-Based Education [338E] |
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(96) : Henriette Lundgren. Me, myself and I - On the Role of Self-Reflection in Adult Education [341E] |
(97): Open [338W] |
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9:25 - 10:10 am |
(98): Open [306E] |
(99) Mervin E. Chisholm. Perspectives of Faculty on Student Evaluations of Teaching at an Anglophone Carribean University [308E] |
(100): Open [310E] |
(101) Shannon Frey. Adult Education in Correctional Settings: A Critical Literature Review [311E] |
(102) Elizabeth Kasl, Lyle Yorks. Do I Really Know You? Do You Really Know Me? And, How Important Is It that We Do? Relationship and Empathy in Differing Learning Contexts [314E] |
(103) Jon Wrigglesworth. Looking Back 30 Years: AIDS, San Francisco, and how we learned there and then [315E] |
(104) Margaret L. Cain, Stephanie Rokich. Learning in Collective Impact Processes: Complexity and Change [316E] |
RT 42: Lisa Bailey-Davis, Rebecca A. Stametz. The Learning Healthcare System: How an Adult Education Lens Can be Used to Inform a Paradigm Shift in US Healthcare Landscape RT 43: Perdeta L. Bush. The Developmental Processes of Forgiveness in Adult Learners [338E] |
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(105) Open |
(106) Mitsunori Misawa. Autoethnography as a way to foster critical thinking skills for academicians in adult and higher education: a queer (Asian) crit perspective and example [338W] |
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10:20 - 11:05 am |
(107) Ann L. Swartz. Becoming Systems Thinkers: Increasing Social Capital Through Network Weak Links [308E] |
(108) Elizabeth Sinz, Sally Rudy, Margaret Wojner, Tammi Bortner. Teaching Simulation Literacy in Adult Healthcare Education: A Qualitative Action Research Study [310E] |
(109) Judith Parker. The Role of Information Communication Technologies in Adult Education Theory Building [311E] |
(110) Catherine A. Cherrstrom. Pathways to the Professoriate: Women Midlife Career Changers [314E] |
(111) Esbern Friis-Hansen, Edward W. Taylor, Deborah Duveskog. Nonformal Agricultural Education in Uganda: The Impact of Extension Workers [315E] |
(112) Amy Pickard. Low-Level Adult Literacy Learners in Pennsylvania: Are African American and Latino Learners Getting the Short Shrift? [316E] |
(113) Richard Wells, Dianne Ramdeholl. Co-opting Accessibility: A Critical Look at the Discourse of Higher Education Reform [338E] |
(114) Chris Olusola Omoregie. Utilisation of Media Technologies for Distance and Lifelong Education in Africa [341E] |
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(114) Open [338W] |
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11:05 - 12:30 pm | Box Lunch [Special Events Room] | |||
11:30 - 12:30 pm |
Closing Session: 1+1: A discussion Around The Pedagogy of Play Conference ends [Auditorium (231C)] |