Adult Education Research Conference

Life on the seesaw: Tensions in an Action Reflection LearningTM program

ARL Inquiry

8:10 AM

Reducing dropout in distance education: A contextual approach

Tim Belawati, University of British Columbia

8:20 AM

An examination of the validity of the education participation scale (EPS) and the adult attitudes toward continuing education scale (AACES)

Adrian Blunt, University of Saskatchewan
Baiyin Yang, University of Georgia

8:30 AM

Words from the edge: A postmodern reflection on Coolie Verner and the black book

Roger Boshier, University of British Columbia

8:40 AM

The imaginary institution of adult education: A reassessment of the field’s collective identity

Derek Briton, University of Alberta

8:50 AM

Storming the citadel: Engaging adult educators in the critical analysis of adult educational theory

Stephen Brookfield, University of St. Thomas

9:00 AM

The myth of self-directed work teams and the ineffectiveness of team effectiveness training: An argument with special reference to teams that produce knowledge

Ann K. Brooks, University of Texas at Austin

9:10 AM

Participatory literacy practices: Creating possibilities

Pat Campbell

9:20 AM

Seeing is believing: Educating through a gender lens

Elizabeth Carriere, University of British Columbia

9:30 AM

Remapping adult education: Beyond social movement & professionalization

Susan Collard

9:40 AM

Examining the case for class analysis in adult education research

Michael Collins, University of Saskatchewan
Sue Collard, University of British Columbia

9:50 AM

The use of learning strategies: An international perspective

Gary J. Conti, Montana State University
Rita Kolody, Medicine Hat College

10:00 AM

U.S. educational policy and adult education: Social control; social demand; and professional adult educator participation

Phyllis M. Cunningham, Northern Illinois University

10:10 AM

The identification, assessment and implications of an organization's learning system for the practice of adult education in organizational settings

Dent C. Davis, University of Tennessee
Mary F. Ziegler, University of Tennessee

10:20 AM

Perceptions of adult literacy policy and practice: A survey of leaders in the field

Robert L. Dilworth, Virginia Commonwealth University

10:30 AM

Opening the black box: Toward a field systems approach to the study of teaching in adult education

John M. Dirkx, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Wayne A. Babchuk, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Tom L. Sharpie, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

10:40 AM

The use of reflection-in-action by adult educators: An inquiry into Schon's’s epistemology of practice

Natalie M. Ferry, Penn State-Harrisburg

10:50 AM

Adult women’s learning in higher education: A critical review of scholarship

Daniele D. Flannery, Penn State-Harrisburg
Elisabeth Hayes, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:00 AM

Intuition in adult education: A non-intuitive view

D. R. Garrison, University of Calgary

11:10 AM

Pictures, perspectives, profiles: Reflections on interviews with critical adult educators

Andre P. Grace, Dalhousie University
Donovan Plumb, Dalhousie University

11:20 AM

Toward a level playing field: The roles of mentors and critical friendships in the lives of women doctoral students

Catherine Hansman-Ferguson, Ball State University
Patricia Garofolo, Ball State University

11:30 AM

Recent strategic planning decisions by the University of Alberta and their implications for its faculty of extension

Dennis Haughey, University of Alberta

11:40 AM

Learning to control democratically ethical questions in situated adult education

Tom Heaney, National-Louis University

11:50 AM

Media, technology, and literacy in immigrant and multicultural contexts

David F. Hemphill, San Francisco State University
Sally L. Ianiro, San Francisco State University
Damien A. Faffa, San Francisco State University

12:10 PM

Fugitive and codified knowledge: The struggle to control the meaning of environmental hazards

Robert J. Hill, Penn State-Harrisburg

12:20 PM

Britain's forgotten minister of adult education: Arthur Creech Jones and a socialist strategy for development and democracy in Africa

John Holford, University of Hong Kong

12:30 PM

Annie Hollis, adult education, and the development of socialist political culture on the prairies, 1917 to 1938

Cathy Holtslander, University of Saskatchewan

12:40 PM

Do universities support multiple role women students?

Alice Home, University of Ottawa

12:50 PM

A new model OF SLA and its implications in teaching ESL to adult learners

Jiazhen Hu, National-Louis University

1:00 PM

Making a way out of no way: An examination of the educational narratives of reentry black women with emphasis on issues of race, gender, class, and color

Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Georgia College

1:20 PM

Collegiate involvement from an adult undergraduate perspective

Carol E. Kasworm, University of Tennessee

1:30 PM

Power and planning in environmental education

Barbara McDonald
Catalino Blanche
Katrina Krause
Michael Brown

1:40 PM

A social definitional approach to the crisis of literacy: Contestory definitions of literacy as skills, information, and critique

Ken Melichar, Piedmont College

1:50 PM

The effects of institutional context on critical thinking in the workplace

Shelley C. Mishoe, University of Georgia and Medical College of Georgia

2:00 PM

Lost in space: mathematics education for adults

Tom Nesbit, University of British Columbia

2:20 PM

Critical adult education and identity in postmodernity

Donovan Plumb, Dalhousie University

2:30 PM

Community-based organizations and mainstream educational change: Dynamics and Dilemmas

Ronald Podeschi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2:40 PM

Learning and motivation associated with changes in the lives and practices of architects: A study in support of a natural learning model for professionals

Michael A. Price
Evelyn Knowles

2:50 PM

Literacy and postmodernism: A deconstruction model for analysis of our myths, our past, and our profession

B. Allan Quigley

3:00 PM

The individual in the community: Horace Kallen, cultural pluralism and the making of the early adult education movement

Amy D. Rose, Nortern Illinois University
Linda O’Neill, Nortern Illinois University

3:20 PM

Attempting to destroy a people by attacking their way of knowing: A case study of the northern Cheyenne

Frank C. Rowland

3:30 PM

Racial formation in the reporting of Canadian immigration

Carol, Schick, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

3:40 PM

"How did humans become resources anyway?:" HRD and the politics of learning the workplace

Fred M. Schied, Penn State University

3:50 PM

Spaces for democracy: Researching the social learning process

Margo Schmitt-Boshnick, University of Alberta

4:00 PM

Power and program planning in a community-based context

Sue M. Scott, University of Alberta
Margo, Schmitt-Boshnick, University of Alberta
Shelley Lester, University of Alberta

4:20 PM

The significance of including the lived experiences of African Americans in adult basic education curriculum and planning

Vanessa Sheared, San Francisco State University

4:30 PM

Beyond the rhetoric: What do the empirical studies say about Mezirow’s transformative learning theory?

Edward W. Taylor, Antioch University-Seattle

4:40 PM

Out of the closet: Lesbian and gay adult educators and sexual orientation issues in the university learning environment

Elizabeth J. Tussled, Antioch University-Seattle
Edward W. Taylor, Antioch University-Seattle

4:50 PM

Retention and literacy: An investigation of field dependence/field independence and the effects of past schooling

Roberta Uhland
B. Allan Quigley

5:00 PM

"Bolsheviks of a better sort": Jimmy Tompkins and the struggle for a people’s Catholicism, 1908-1928

Michael R. Welton

5:10 PM

Siting program planning theory in adult education: The selective tradition of privileging technical rationality

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

5:20 PM

The effects of group cohesion on the productivity of advisory groups that plan employee training programs in a university setting

Robert P. Wislock

5:30 PM

Explaining and predicting participation in adult education: A longitudinal study

Baiyin Yang, University of Georgia

5:40 PM