The Midwest Research to Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education is a two day meeting held each fall at a major university in the Midwest United States
Over fifty percent of students in higher education are non-traditional adult learners. Some institutions have developed and implemented integrative liberal arts courses enhancing effective study strategies with interactive ...
The university traditionally has had three roles: a) student instruction, b) pure
research, and c) community service. While these roles have become disconnected in the
contemporary university, they have remained integrated ...
The purpose of this research was to develop an updated scale based on the framework that
Neugarten, Havighurst and Tobin (1961) used to design the Life Satisfaction Index- Form A
(LSI-A). The new instrument, the Life ...
Rarely if ever are the boundaries of any scholarly body of knowledge or theory integrated
in an inter-disciplinary collaboration, yet there are arguably some situations where just such a
symbiotic relationship is quite ...
The purpose of this study was to assess self-perceived leadership behaviors and related
leadership styles practiced in a sample of adult educators. Adopting transformational leadership
theory embodied in the Full Range ...
This study sought to create profiles of adult literacy and basic education (ALBE)
instructors and their use of the Internet in their classrooms. Rogers’ theory of Diffusion of Innovations (2003) provided the theoretical ...
Perhaps the least visible and understood experience in the academy is that of immigrant
women of color This absence is connected to issues of power, privilege, discourse, and practices
that silence nonwestern voices in ...
Poster Session-As we deal with a rapidly aging population, the arts education and arts policy community needs to take an active role in providing insight into policies that address adult choices. This includes defining ...
Folkman, Daniel V; Hill, Lee; Stuckert, Susan(2005-12-15)
Poster Session-This poster presentation summarizes a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project that involved helping 50 students identified as being academically at-risk in each of 12 middle schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ...
Poster Session- Since Florence Nightengale began professional schools of nursing, socialization in the nursing curriculum has been viewed from multiple perspectives. University-based nursing programs include a professional ...
Poster Session-As disparate as their countries of origin and their histories, Asian Americans share a common experience of discrimination, injustice and oppression with other minority groups. In spite of the notable gains ...
Poster Session-Lured to Gum San (“The Gold Mountain”) by the discovery of gold in California in 1848, thousands of Chinese men left their families and a homeland, wrought with drought, floods, famine, and rebellion. Unlike ...
Poster Session-The physical enslavement of the Africans and African Americans necessitated, to a certain degree, the control of their worldview. Chains about the body were unable to quench the inborn desire for liberty and ...
Tolliver, Denise E; Tisdell, Elizabeth J(2005-12-15)
Poster Session-What is our place in the global community? For many, the tragedies of September 11, 2001 have elevated this question to a level of seriousness that goes well beyond a simple intellectual exercise. Issues ...
Poster Session-Much of the adult education graduate curricula fail to include both content and practice relative to the intersection of race, class, gender and sexual orientation. This research seeks to conduct a critical ...
Poster Session-The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the lived lives of 20 Rastafarians, whom I refer to as co-reasoners. Rastafarians have been defined as being members of a loosely organized religious-cultural ...
Public education in the United States is in crisis. Far too many children are failing to achieve minimal standards in reading, writing and mathematics. New federal legislation seeks to correct this situation by legislative ...
Adult educators, working in non-traditional interdisciplinary settings, sit at the confluence of where the margins of several disciplines meet to exchange ideas on how to advance theory and practice to facilitate adult ...
Teachers and learners increasingly attribute classroom tensions and conflicts to sharp age
differences among students. Supported in part by inter-generational research, I suggest that
these tensions and conflicts may ...
We approach the adult educator/adult learner relationship from an affective perspective, noting
the role of diversity, as we establish parameters for this paper. One of us has stated that a dear
friend and adult educator ...