Exploring literacy through theatre: The impact of performing on literacy and upgrading students

Cynthia Lee Andruske, University of British Columbia

8:00 AM

Heuristic research: A new perspective on research in adult education

Edward S. Beckstrom

8:15 AM

Self-direction in adult undergraduates: Perceptions of learner control

Sally S. Blowers, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

9:00 AM

Constructing HIV and Magic Johnson: Discourse, education and power

Roger Boshier, University of British Columbia

9:15 AM

Homeboys: A study of peer-mentoring among African-American males in Chicago in adult education

Warren R. Braden, Northern Illinois University

9:30 AM

The commodification of adult education

Derek Briton, University of Alberta
Donovan Plumb, University of Alberta

10:00 AM

Slipping the reins on the Trojan horse: Interpreting self-directed learning as a political concept

Stephen Brookfield, University of St. Thomas

10:10 AM

Collective group learning

Ann K. Brooks, University of Texas-Austin

10:20 AM

Psychosocial development of women: Linking this literature to the study of leadership

Rosemary S. Caffarella, University of Northern Colorado
Bruce G. Barnett, University of Northern Colorado

10:30 AM

Writing wrongs: Implications of Foucauldian theory for researching racism discourse

Elizabeth Carriere, University of British Columbia

10:40 AM

Power and responsibility in planning adult education programs

Ronald . M. Cervero, University of Georgia
Arthur L. Wilson, Ball State University

10:50 AM

The experience of consciousness-raising in abused women

Donna M. Chovanec, University of Alberta

11:00 AM

Changing course: Initiating the transformational learning process

Carolyn M. Clark, Texas A&M University

11:10 AM

Measuring teaching effectiveness for Native American learners

Gary J. Conti, Montana State Universitiy

11:20 AM

Using discriminant analysis in adult education

Gary J. Conti, Montana State Universitiy

11:30 AM

The relationship between the multiple roles and the psychological well-being of the adult student in higher education

Douglas L. Cook

11:40 AM

Community education: A conceptual framework

Gary J. Dean, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

11:50 AM

Jumping through the hoops: Program planning practice in international development

Catherine C. Dunlop, University of British Columbia

12:00 PM

Critical ethnography as a research methodology in adult education

Pat Dyer, University of British Columbia

12:10 PM

The dilution of social change language in adult education

Corina Dykstra, University of Waikato

12:20 PM

Adult literacy and community development: Exploring the link

Merrill D. Ewert, Cornell University
Peter Malvicini, Cornell University
Peter Clark, Cornell University
David Deshler, Cornell University

12:30 PM

A study of the comprehension skills and strategies of ABE students

Lori A. Forlizzi

12:40 PM

Operationalization and assessment of conceptions of teaching

Chan Choon Hian, University of British Columbia

12:50 PM

Knowledge and curriculum in contemporary social movements

Andrea Kastner

1:10 PM

Wisdom, adult education and women: Confucius and Aristotle revisited

Kyung Hi Kim, Northern Illinois University

1:20 PM

A research agenda for technologically mediated instructional strategies in adult education

Donna L. Kizzier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ruth S. Lavin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1:30 PM

Developing a vision of society: Transformative learning and the emancipatory process

Kathleen Loughlin, St. Joseph's College

1:40 PM

Story-tellers: The image of the two-year college in American fiction and in women's journals

Nancy LaPaglia

1:50 PM

The institutional wife syndrome: A metaphor grounded in reality

Barbara A. Mccaulay
Virginia G. Gonzalez

2:00 PM

Living and learning: Strategies for survival in a literate world

Juliet Merrifield
Mary Beth Bingman

2:20 PM

How adults learn: The meaning of adult education

Jack Mezirow, Columbia University

2:30 PM

Workers education: Conceptual and practical opportunities for adult educators

Tom Nesbit, University of British Columbia

2:40 PM

Effects of age composition on academic achievement in college classrooms

Richard J. Novak

2:50 PM

Cognitive strategies and the use of prior knowledge in learning

Christine H. Olgren

3:00 PM

Perspective transformation themes among rural midlife college students: Subtle vs. dramatic changes

Glyna Olson, Western Oklahoma State University
Kleine Paul, University of Oklahoma

3:10 PM

Implementation research: Understanding the application of learning following continuing professional education

Judith M. Ottoson .

3:20 PM

"Happy consciousness": Hegemony and hidden curricula in literacy readers between 1977 and 1991

Allan B. Quiglye
Ella Holsinger

3:30 PM

Anna Cooper and Nannie Burroughs: Educating head, heart, and hand in the early 20th century African American community

Jovita Ross-Gordon, Penn State University
LaVerne Gyant, Penn State University

3:40 PM

Work, learning and customs in historical perspective: Education and work in the nineteenth century

Fred M. Schied, Penn State University

3:50 PM

Philosophy-in-action in university teaching

Sue M. Scott, University of Alberta
Donna M. Chovanec, University of Alberta
Beth Young

4:00 PM

African American learning-to-learn-to-live in response to diseducation: A phenomenological investigation

Margaret Shaw

4:10 PM

From workfare to edfare: An Africentric feminist epistemology of welfare, education, and work

Vanessa Sheared, Northern Illinois University

4:20 PM

Educational scholarship on women: A feminist analysis of two decades of adult education literature

Peggy A. Sissel

4:30 PM

Developing human resources during organizational transition: An inductive case study of a corporate acquisition

Patricia Scescke Slama

4:40 PM

Transformative learning in adulthood: A socio-contextual perspective

Karen L. Sveinunggaard, University of Alberta

4:50 PM

Gatekeeping and the AEQ: An inside view

Edward W. Taylor, University of Georgia

5:00 PM

Intercultural competency: A transformative learning process

Edward W. Taylor, University of Georgia

5:10 PM

Adult learning through collaborative inquiry

thINQ

5:20 PM

The rhetoric of leadership in the history of adult education: Implications for the acceptance of women as leaders

Melody M. Thompson

5:30 PM

Power relations in higher education classes of nontraditional-age adults: Issues of gender, race and class

Elizabeth J. Tisdell

5:40 PM

Adult education and working women: A perspective on the life and work of Eva vom Hansl

Kimberly A. Townsend

5:50 PM

Voices revealed: A case for oral history in adult education research

Kimberly A. Townsend

6:00 PM

Designing an empirical audit of the learning organization

Karen E. Watkins
Victoria J. Marsick

6:10 PM

Perceptions of success and the power and control over change in women's lives with implications for adult education

Dorothy Wiese

6:20 PM

Adult learning, situated cognition, and authentic activity: Relocating adult education in the context of experience

Arthur L. Wilson, Ball State University

6:30 PM

Highlander Folk School and the industrial labor movement: Using the FBI files to develop a third perspective

Jeff Zacharakis-Jutz, Northern Illinois University

6:40 PM

The tutor-learner relationship in literacy education: Redefinition or reproduction?

Linda Ziegahn
Kathleen H. Hinchman

6:50 PM