• “Putting the Puzzle Together”: Reflection, Learning, and Transformation In an Integrated Liberal Arts Course 

  Daly, Jacqueline (2006)

  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 ...
• Life Satisfaction Index for the Third Age (LSITA): A Measurement of Successful Aging 

  Barrett, Andrew J.; Murk, Peter J. (2006-10)

  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 ...
• Service Learning, Non-Traditional Students, And The Historic Black University: The Harris-Stowe Model 

  Abbott, Mark; Beech, Richarlene (2006-10)

  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 Immigrant As Outsider-Within: Exploring Identity And Place In Academe 

  Alfred, Mary V. (2006-08-21)

  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 ...
• Concept Mapping: A Neuro-Scientific Approach 

  Baley, Charles (2006-08-21)

  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 ...
• Leadership Characteristics Of Adult Educators 

  Bartling, Frederick; Bartlett, Kenneth (2006-08-21)

  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 ...
• Profiles Of Internet Use In Adult Literacy And Basic Education Classrooms 

  Berger, Jim (2006-08-21)

  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 ...
• ADULT ARTS EDUCATION: A DELPHI STUDY FORECASTING THE ROLE OF THE ARTS IN A LIFELONG LEARNING SOCIETY 

  Laffery, Sue-Anne (2005-12-16)

  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 ...
• CREATION OF THE YELLOW PERIL: A STUDY OF AMERICA’S EARLY CHINESE IMMIGRANTS 

  Leong Kappel, Patricia (2005-12-15)

  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 ...
• ADULT EDUCATION IN THE POST 9/11 WORLD: REFLECTIONS ONE YEAR LATER 

  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 ...
• EXPANDING THE SMALL SPACE: RASTAFARIANS AS KNOWLEDGE PRODUCERS 

  Stanley, Cathy S. (2005-12-15)

  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 ...
• THE SELECT 50 INITIATIVE: HELPING MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS ACHIEVE ACADEMICALLY THROUGH SCHOOL-FAMILY-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS 

  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. ...
• ACTION RESEARCH FOR NURSE EDUCATORS:A MORE NOURISHING ALTERNATIVE TO EATING OUR YOUNG 

  Berent, Georgine R (2005-12-15)

  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 ...
• THE INTERPRETATION OF INFORMATION AND THE BIAS OF EDUCATORS IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH 

  Gittens, Garth (2005-12-15)

  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 ...
• BRIDGING THE GAP IN ADULT CONTINUING EDUCATION FROM MARGIN TO CENTER 

  Ham Garth, Phyllis (2005-12-15)

  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 ...
• LOCATING ASIAN AMERICANS IN ADULT EDUCATION DISCOURSE 

  Cabasa-Hess, Virginia A (2005-12-15)

  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 ...
• EMBRACING AND EXTENDING THE MARGINS OF ADULT EDUCATION:EXPERIENCES OF INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION 

  Glowacki-Dudka, Michelle; Wise, Meg (2005-11-21)

  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 ...
• AN ACTION SCIENCE APPROACH TO CREATING AND SUSTAINING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES AS A VEHICLE FOR COMPREHENSIVE SOCIAL REFORM 

  Folkman, Daniel V (2005-11-21)

  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 ...
• A HUMANISTIC APPROACH TO ADULT EDUCATION: LEARNING FROM THE INSIDE OUT 

  Cooks, Alyce; Hackney, Darwyn; Jackson, Sanetta George; Stevens, Claude; Zumwalt, Dave (2005-11-21)

  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 ...
• TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING:INSIGHTS INTO WOMEN SEMINARIANS’ DECISIONS TO PURSUE ORDINATION 

  Fewell, Jilaine (2005-11-21)

  The purposes of this study were (1) to discover and investigate the factors that influence women seminarians to alter their programs in order to pursue ordination, (2) to explore the connections between the emerging ...

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