Incarcerated Women as Facilitators: A Preliminary Review of Motivations and Skill Development in Group Leadership Settings

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Chaundra L. Whitehead, Florida International University

12:00 AM

Infusing Adult Learning Theory in a Traditional University Classroom: An Alternate Approach to Freshman Orientation

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Jake Ayo, The University of Arkansas
Kenda Grover, The University of Arkansas

9:15 AM

Living and Learning with Chronic Disease: Toward Better Methods of Education

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Lisa M. Baumgartner, Texas A&M University
Katharine Preissner, University of Illinois at Chicago

9:30 AM

The Matter of Morality: Examining Moral-Ethics as a Tenet of Transformative Learning

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Perdeta L. Bush, The Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

9:45 AM

Readability of Instructional Materials and Usability of Online Learning Environment: Their Relations to the Development of Authentic and Contingent Knowledge

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Lisa Casper, SUNY University at Buffalo
Jeanne M. Myers, Erie Community College
Chris L. Yuen, SUNY University at Buffalo

10:00 AM

Photolanguage as a Research Tool in Adult and Community Education

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Wendy Griswold, Kansas State University
La Barbara James Wigfall, Kansas State University

10:15 AM

Faculty Development: Measuring Unintended Consequences of Individual Participation in a Community of Practice

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Kenda S. Grover, University of Arkansas
Shelly Walters, University of Arkansas
Kit Kacirek, University of Arkansas

10:30 AM

The Influence of Embodied Cultural Capital on the Retention and Matriculation Adults Entering College

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Pamela Hampton-Garland

10:45 AM

Microaggressions Among Online Graduate Students

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Annie Hoekman, Kansas State University
Dr. Doris Wright Carroll, Kansas State University

11:00 AM

Addressing Issues for Graduate Students who are Single Parents with Dependent Children: What is the Role of Adult Education?

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Stacy Kimbrough, University of Arkansas
Joshua C. Collins, University of Arkansas

11:30 AM

Failure was not an Option: The Lived Experiences of African Ameripean Male Graduates in Doctoral Programs at Historical Black Universities and Predominantly White Universities

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John LittleJohn Jr., National-Louis University

11:45 AM

The Cross-Cultural Conditions of Trust

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Rob B. McClary

12:00 PM

Collective Impact in/for Adult Education: A Framework for Collective Action to Address Community Complexity and Resilience

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Kim L. Niewolny, Virginia Tech
Thomas G. Archibald, Virginia Tech

12:15 PM

Grit and the Adult Learner: Should We Be Thinking about Work Ethic?

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Joann S. Olson, University of Houston-Victoria

12:30 PM

Adult Learning and the Shrinking Globe

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Jay M.A. Parker, University of Arkansas
Joshua C. Collins, University of Arkansas

12:45 PM

To Engage or Not Engage? Looking at the Barriers Behind Low Retention Rates of Racial/Ethnic Online Adult Learners

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Saundra Pearl Peterson, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Geleana Drew Alston, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

1:00 PM

Bringing Awareness to the Barriers Causing the Lack of Parent Involvement in the Public Schools

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Billie Laminta Poe, National-Louis University

1:15 PM

Consolidating the Profession? The Professoriate in the 1950s and 1960s

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Amy D. Rose, Northern Illinois University
Catherine A. Hansman, Cleveland State University

1:30 PM

Giving Voice to African American Women’s Authentic Lived Experiences with Public Assistance

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Adrienne C. Smith, National Louis University

1:45 PM

The Exploration of a Multi-Theoretical Framework for Holistic and Democratic Adult ESL Instruction

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Fujuan Tan, Morehead State University
Lee Nabb, Morehead State University

2:00 PM

Can I Do Both? Be Employed and Graduate? Adult Non-Traditional Learners Who Combine Employment and Higher Education Enrollment-A Look at Persistence and Best Practices to Overcoming Barriers to Improve Success and Retention

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Lynn Taylor, Texas State University

2:15 PM