Contextual factors associated with evaluation practices of selected adult and continuing education providers in Malaysia

Shamsuddin Ahmad, University Pertanian Malaysia

8:40 AM

Outsiders-within: The professional development history of African-American tenured female faculty in the white research academy

Mary Vianna Alfred, Central Texas College

8:50 AM

The professional ethic and the spirit of post-modernism: Researching values in teaching and research in the education of adults

Paul Armstrong, University of London

8:55 AM

Transforming the teacher-student relationship: Collaborative learning in adult education

Ruth Marcus Bounous, Cornell University

9:00 AM

Decentering the "self" in adult education practice

Derek Briton, University of Alberta

9:10 AM

Humanistic adult education: A critical appraisal

Ralph G. Brockett, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

9:20 AM

The postmodern challenge to clarity: The meaning of George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language for adult education theory

Stephen Brookfield, University of St. Thomas

9:30 AM

Tales of the Alhambra: Women's programs as harems.

Elizabeth Carriere, University of British Columbia

9:50 AM

The processes of adult learning: Failure as feedback for motivation

Lorraine A. Cavaliere, Cabrini College

10:00 AM

Doing interpretive research in a technocratic age: A clash of paradigms

Donna M. Chovanec, University of Alberta

10:20 AM

Evoking a global consciousness: Teacher professional development and global education

Elizabeth Lange Christensen, University of Alberta

10:30 AM

Using cluster analysis in adult education

Gary J. Conti, Montana State University

10:40 AM

The centrality of meaning-making in transformational learning: How HIV positive adults make sense of their lives

Bradley Courtenay, University of Georgia
Sharan B. Merriam, University of Georgia
Patricia M. Reeves, University of Georgia

10:50 AM

Knowledge and self—adult learners’ conceptions of learning implications for teaching in higher education

Sean Courtney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

11:00 AM

Nonparticipation in adult education programs: Views of blue-collar male workers with low-literacy skills

Deryl Davis-Harrison, Milwaukee Area Technical College

11:10 AM

An initial pilot scheme towards an international comparative adult education research approach

Ahmet Duman, Durham University, England

11:20 AM

Post-literacy in Niger: Program design and the transfer of learning

Peter Easton, Florida State University
Laouali Malam Moussa, Florida State University

11:30 AM

The United States Supreme Court vs. American Indian self-determination: A case study of resistance and social action

Gabrielle Ann Scott Elliott, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Alberta Iron Cloud Miller, Montana State University

11:40 AM

Women’s continuous learning in the workplace

Tara, Fenwick, University of Alberta

11:50 AM

Metaphors of adult educators’ identity and practice

Tara Fenwick, University of Alberta
Jim Parsons, University of Alberta

12:00 PM

Women’s learning: A kaleidoscope

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

12:10 PM

The impact of language functioning among African American adult learners in an adult basic education classroom

Doris Flowers, San Francisco State University
Vanessa Sheared, San Francisco State University

12:20 PM

Informal learning: The experience of adult educators at work

John Garrick, University of Technology, Sydney
Paul Hager, University of Technology, Sydney

12:30 PM

Some recent Australian research on workplace learning and training

Andrew Gonczi, University of Technology, Sydney

12:40 PM

Adult educators as border crossers: Using transformative pedagogy to inform classroom practice

Andre P. Grace, Dalhousie University

12:50 PM

Cultural pluralism as adult education: Alain Locke, Horace Kallen, and the discourse of difference

Talmade Guy, University of Georgia
Linda O’Neill, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Amy D. Rose, Northern Illinois University

1:00 PM

Literacy: Issues of culture, gender, and hidden curriculum

David F. Hemphill, San Francisco State University
Audrey K. Allen, Kyle Family Learning and Career Center

1:10 PM

"In a company town, when you need help, where do you turn?": The effects of ideological colonization on democratic life in an industry-polluted community in Appalachia

Robert J. Hill, Penn State-Harrisburg

1:20 PM

Creating a learning organization, creating a controlling organization: A case study of total quality management in an industrial setting

Sharon L. Howell, Pennsylvania State University
Judith A. Preston, Pennsylvania State University
Fred M. Schied, Pennsylvania State University
Vicki K. Carter, Pennsylvania State University

1:30 PM

The professional development of adult education professors: A qualitative inquiry of the Kellogg faculty seminar participants

Li-Shyung Hwang, North Carolina State University

1:40 PM

Metaphors across models: On the interpretation and use of metaphors in qualitative research

Paul J. Ilecki, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1:50 PM

"A great conspiracy": Self-directed learning among Protestant clergy in Russia

Wayne R. Kenney, Apollos Resources: Creative Alternatives for Adult Education

2:00 PM

Developing critical reflective thinking among church leaders in sub-Saharan Africa

Rev. Charles E. Kingsbury, Florida State University

2:10 PM

The use of learning strategies: Do distinctive groups of learners exist?

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

2:20 PM

Rediscovering hope in a new era: Possibilities for the radical tradition of adult education

Michael Law, University of Waikato

2:30 PM

Faculty awareness and use of adult learning principles

Patricia A. Lawler, Widener University
Arlene D. DeCosmo, Widener University
Stephen C. Wilhite, Widener University

2:40 PM

Learning that comes from the negative interpretation of life experiences

Sharan Merriam, University of Georgia
Vivian Mott, East Carolina University
Ming-yeh Lee, University of Georgia

2:50 PM

Impact of economic crisis and structural adjustment on education and training in Africa

Derek C. Mulenga, Northern Illinois University

3:00 PM

After the program is over: Exploring teams and application

Judith M. Ottoson, University of British Columbia

3:10 PM

Surface & deep approaches to evaluating teaching

Daniel D. Pratt, University of British Columbia

3:20 PM

Language, power, and program planning

E. Frances Rees

3:40 PM

A model of the effective dimensions of interactive learning systems for adults

Thomas C. Reeves, University of Georgia
Patricia M. Reeves, University of Georgia

3:50 PM

Learning and new voices: Lesbian development and the implications for adult education

Diane Resides, Pennsylvania State University

4:00 PM

Ingredients for college success: Looking through the eyes of African American adults

Jovita M. Ross-Gordon, St. Edward's University
Felicia Brown-Haywood, Penn State-Harrisburg

4:10 PM

Seeds of conflict, seeds of compromise: A historiography of American workers and adult education in the first half of the twentieth century

Fred M. Schied, Pennsylvania State University
Kenneth C. Welensky, Pennsylvania State University

4:20 PM

A few potholes on the road to salvation: Codes of ethics in adult education

Thomas J. Sork, University of British Columbia

4:30 PM

Labour education for 2001

Bruce Spencer, Athabasca University

4:40 PM

Women mentoring women : Contradictions, complexities and tensions

Joyce Stalker, University of Waikato

4:50 PM

Rationality and emotions in transformative learning theory : A neurobiological perspective

Edward W. Taylor, Antioch University, Seattle

5:10 PM

Feminist pedagogy and adult learning : Underlying theory and emancipatory practice

Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Antioch University, Seattle

5:30 PM

University faculty and information literacy

Donna L. Whitson, University of Wyoming
Donna D. Amstutz, University of Wyoming

5:40 PM

Collective struggles – collective learning: A history of women garment workers and adult education

Kenneth C. Wolensky, Pennsylvania State University

5:50 PM

Understanding adult educators’ power and influence tactics in program planning practice

Baiyin Yang, University of Georgia

6:10 PM