Globalization and the Internationalization of Adult and Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada and the United States

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Mary V. Alfred, Texas A & M University
Shibao Guo, University of Calgary

9:00 AM

Outside the Circle: A Case Study ofVolunteer Activities of AdultsWith Low Literacy Skills

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Donna Anderson, St. Francis Xavier University
Allan Quigley, St. Francis Xavier University

9:00 AM

“I Don’t Know the Secret Handshake”: Making Social Class Visible in a Learning Context

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Michelle Anderson, University of Tennessee, USA
Jackie Taylor, University of Tennessee, USA
Mary Ziegler, University of Tennessee, USA

9:00 AM

Observing Silence

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Paul Armstrong, University of Leeds, UK

9:00 AM

Discovery and Change: Themes of Mental Model Development Among Successful New Farmers

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Sandy Bell, University of Connecticut, USA

9:00 AM

How an Intranet Provides Opportunities for Learning Organizational Culture

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Elisabeth E. Bennett, University of Oklahoma, USA

9:00 AM

Cultural Components of Technology and its Implications for Adult Education

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Jim Berger, Western Kentucky University, USA

9:00 AM

Gay Men at Midlife and Adult Learning: An Uneasy Truce with Heteronormativity

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Thomas V. Bettinger, Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg, USA

9:00 AM

Tracing HRD’s Rational Masculine Roots: Feminist Alternatives for a More Mindful HRD

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Laura L. Bierema, University of Georgia, USA
Julia Storberg-Walker, North Carolina State University, USA

9:00 AM

The Dimensions of Black Women’s Learning in the Environmental Justice Movement in the Southeastern U.S.

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Tuere A. Bowles, North Carolina State University, USA

9:00 AM

Conducting Qualitative Research on Race

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Lorenzo Bowman, University of Georgia, USA

9:00 AM

Re-situating Ourselves: Learning from Community Organizations’ Stories of Conflict, Challenge and Failure

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Susan J. Bracken, North Carolina State University, USA

9:00 AM

We’re Here, You Just Don’t Know How to Reach Us: Conducting Research with Citizens on the Socio-Economic Margins

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M. Tanya Brann-Barrett, University of British Columbia, Canada

9:00 AM

“Our hopes and dreams enrich its every corner” : Adult Education with an Africentric Focus

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Susan M. Brigham, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada

9:00 AM

Cultural Capital and its Impact on the Career Experiences of African American Managers

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Trammell L. Bristol

9:00 AM

Radical Questioning on the Long Walk to Freedom: Nelson Mandela and the Practice of Critical Reflection

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Stephen Brookfield, University of St. Thomas, USA

9:00 AM

Mexican Perspectives on Mexico-U.S. Immigration:Implications for Adult Education in the U.S. & Mexico

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Ann K. Brooks, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA
Damaris Womack, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA
Lucio Varela, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA
Lewis Madhlangobe, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA
Amanda Williams, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA
Sonia Rodriquez, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA
Elizabeth Garcia, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA

9:00 AM

Getting Ahead or Getting By: Historical Images of Adult Education

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Gerriann Brower, University of St. Thomas, USA

9:00 AM

Balancing Acts: A Phenomenological Study of Single Mothers Who Are Successful Students in Higher Education

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Rosemary Buteau, Chicago State University, USA

9:00 AM

To Go or Not to Go: Does Linking Intelligence and Wisdom Provide a More Powerful Theoretical Lens for Understanding Learning in Adulthood?

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Rosemary S. Caffarella, Cornell University, USA

9:00 AM

Between Modernization and Tradition: How does Culture Shape Older Taiwanese Women’s Perceptions of Successful Aging?

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Li-Kuang Chen, University of Georgia, USA

9:00 AM

Critical Anthological Imagination: Looking Historically at Prisoners Writing About Themselves as Adult Learners in the United States (1966-2006)

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Dominique T. Chlup, Texas A&M University, USA

9:00 AM

Formative, Restorative and Transformative Learning: Insights into the Critical Consciousness of Social Activists

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Donna M. Chovanec, University of Alberta Canada
Elizabeth A. Lange, Concordia University College of Alberta, Canada

9:00 AM

Adult Learner Success Stories: The Impact of Shifting Political Discourses on Adult Literacy Education

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M. Carolyn Clark, Texas A&M University, USA
Jennifer A. Sandlin, Texas A&M University, USA

9:00 AM

Educator Authenticity: A Longitudinal Study

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Patricia Cranton, Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg, USA

9:00 AM

Readers’ Theatre: An Organic Inquiry in Alaska Awakening Possibilities in a Living Spiral of Understanding

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Melany Cueva, National Louis University, USA

9:00 AM

The Pedagogy of Experience: A Case Study of Pilgrimage as Experiential Learning

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Dent C. Davis, Columbia Theological Seminary, USA

9:00 AM

Emotion and Cross-cultural Experience: The Messy Business of Self-formation in Adult Learning

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John M. Dirkx, Michigan State University, USA
Jody Jessup Anger, Michigan State University, USA
Bernard Gwekwerere, Michigan State University, USA
John Brender, Wayne State University, USA
Regina O. Smith, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA

9:00 AM

Learning to Build Sustainable Communities through Volunteer Work in Urban and Rural Settings: Insights from Four Case Studies

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Fiona Duguid, Ontario Institute for Studies of Education/ University of Toronto, Canada
Karsten Mundel, Ontario Institute for Studies of Education/ University of Toronto, Canada
Daniel Schugurensky, Ontario Institute for Studies of Education/ University of Toronto, Canada

9:00 AM

The Social Construction of Safe: Young Queer Men and HIV Knowledge

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John P. Egan, University of British Columbia, Canada

9:00 AM

The Experience of Becoming a Straight Ally-Activist of GLBT People

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Matthew Eichler, University of Minnesota, USA

9:00 AM

Interrogating Gender Texts: A Critical Review of the Literature

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Leona M. English, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Catherine J. Irving, Coady International Institute, Canada
Kerrie Kennedy, OISE/University of Toronto, Canada

9:00 AM

Handing Over the Controls: The Shift from Pilot in Command to Instructor

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Diane Erickson, University of Alaska, USA

9:00 AM

Older Adults’ Engagement with Further and Higher Education in the West of Scotland: Tracking Educational Journeys

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Brian Findsen, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Sarah McCullough, University of Glasgow, Scotland

9:00 AM

What’s it Like in There? Reflections on Being Educators in Military and Para-Military Settings in the UK and Canada

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Jean Flynn, University of Nottingham, UK
Beverley Morris, University of Nottingham, UK

9:00 AM

Antecedents and Consequences of Participation in a National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Workplace Conference

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Julie Gedro, Empire State College / SUNY, USA

9:00 AM

It’s Not What You Know, It’s…: The Untold Stories of Parent Advocates

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Tania Giordani, National Louis University, USA

9:00 AM

LGBTQ Employee Groups: Who Are They Good For? How Are They Organized?

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Rod P. Githens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Steven R. Aragon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

9:00 AM

Going to Teach and Getting Taught in Saudi Arabia: An Auto-Ethnography

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Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Ball State University, USA

9:00 AM

Researching Men’s Sheds in Community Contexts in Australia: What does it tell us about Adult Education for Older Men?

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Barry Golding, University of Ballarat, Australia

9:00 AM

Young Women Learning in Social Struggle

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Rachel Gouin, University of Ballarat, Australia

9:00 AM

Learning Your Way into a Life of Crime (Fiction): Assessing Sisters-in-Crime as a Unique Learning Organization

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Patricia A. Gouthro, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada

9:00 AM

Arts on the Ground: Camp fYrefly as an LGBTTQ&A Arts-Informed, Community-Based Education Project

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Andre P. Grace, University of Alberta, Canada
Kristopher Wells, University of Alberta, Canada

9:00 AM

One Size Fits All? Reflecting on Local Program Planning Processes Among Three Iterations of the “Clemente” Program

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Janet Groen, University of Calgary, Canada
Tara Hyland-Russell, St. Mary’s University College, Canada

9:00 AM

Immigrants as Active Citizens: Learning in Social Action

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Shibao Guo, University of Calgary, Canada

9:00 AM

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Basic American Negro Creed: The AAAE, Censorship, and Repressive Tolerance

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Talmadge C. Guy, University of Georgia, USA
Stephen Brookfield, University of St. Thomas, USA

9:00 AM

Study Circles to Enhance Program Growth in the New York City Adult Literacy World

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Barbara Heuer, Fordham University, USA
Dianne Ramdeholl, National Louis University/New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, USA
Eric Appleton, The Fortune Society, New York City, USA

9:00 AM

Resources and Resilience: An Assets Based Examination of Native Student Success

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Diane Hirshberg, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Diane Erickson, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA

9:00 AM

When Do We Stop Asking ‘Why’?: Exploring the Possibilities and Challenges of Collective Critical Reflection for Staff and Organizational Development

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Margo J. Hittleman, Cornell University, USA

9:00 AM

A Hermeneutical Study of the Essentialities of Adult Peace Education

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Hsiu-Chu Hsu, Northern Illinois University

9:00 AM

Towards an Understanding of What it Might Mean to Research Spiritually

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Cheryl Hunt, University of Exeter, UK
Linden West, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

9:00 AM

Critical Texts: Issues of Knowledge, Power and Discourse in Researching Gender and Learning

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Catherine J. Irving, Coady International Institute and St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Leona M. English, Coady International Institute and St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

9:00 AM

Lean On Me: The Support Experiences of Black Graduate Students

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Juanita Johnson-Bailey, University of Georgia, USA
Thomas Valentine, University of Georgia, USA
Ronald M. Cervero, University of Georgia, USA
Tuere Bowles, University of Georgia, USA

9:00 AM

Policies versus Practice: “Grey” Areas and “Organized Chaos” in Emergency Response

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Shawn Jolemore, Nova Scotia Department of Health Promotion and Protection, Canada
Nancy Taber, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada

9:00 AM

Consuming Fiction: Stories about Consumerism, Shopping and Consumption

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Kaela Jubas, University of British Columbia, Canada

9:00 AM

Creating Space and Pathways for Elder Knowledge Transfer in University Settings

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Colleen Kawalilak, University of Calgary, Canada

9:00 AM

Critical HRD—Need for Emergence of Critters in Adult Education

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Jeffrey M. Keefer, New York University, USA
Robin Yap, Phronetic International, Canada/USA

9:00 AM

Immigration & Credentialing: A Case Study of Jamaican Teachers in 1960s Alberta

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Jennifer Kelly, University of Alberta, Canada
Dan Cui, University of Alberta, Canada

9:00 AM

Experiences of Post-Colonial Women in Grassroots Organizations in Mali: The Case of “L’Association des Femmes Fabricantes de Savon, Koulikoro Plateau I” (AFFSKP), Mali

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Maimouna Konate, Northern Illinois University, USA

9:00 AM

Transformative Learning: The Trojan Horse of Globalization?

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Elizabeth A. Lange, Concordia University College of Alberta, Canada

9:00 AM

Citizenship Learning and Democracy in the Lives of Young People

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Robert Lawy, School of Education and Lifelong Learning University of Exeter, UK
Gert Biesta, School of Education and Lifelong Learning University of Exeter, UK

9:00 AM

Unveiling the Invisible Learning from Unpaid Household Work: Survey on Work and Lifelong Learning

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Willa Lichun Liu, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

9:00 AM

Toward an Ecology of Learning from Experience: A Model for Further Research

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Nancy Lloyn Pfahl, Independent Learning Strategist and Researcher

9:00 AM

Learning “Really Useful Knowledge:” Front-line Supervisors and Learning in Three Steel Mills

Ramo Lord, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Fred Schied, Pennsylvania State University, USA

9:00 AM

Exploring the Needs and Challenges of Adults from War Affected Backgrounds

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Karen Magro, University of Winnipeg, Canada

9:00 AM

Perpetuating Racism in the Field of Adult Education: A Process of Liberation for White European Decent Professors

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Carole L. Lund, Alaska Pacific University, USA

9:00 AM

Racial and Ethnic Diversity at an Urban University: Critical Insight from a Developmental Social Justice Perspective

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Larry G. Martin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Regina O. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Raji Swaminathan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

9:00 AM

Teaching to Be Radical: The Women Activist Educators of Highlander

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Colleen McDermott, University of Georgia, USA

9:00 AM

View from the Stoop: Exploring the Impact of Place on Learning in Social Movements

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Marilyn Mckenley Parrish, Millersville University, USA

9:00 AM

Transformational Learning in Botswana: How Culture Shapes the Process

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Sharan B. Merriam, University of Georgia, USA
Gabo Ntseane, University of Botswana, Republic of Botswana

9:00 AM

Communities of Practice in Graduate Education: The Learner's Perspective

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Catherine H. Monoghan, Cleveland State University, USA

9:00 AM

Re-viewing Adult Learning: A Collaborative Self-Directed Learning Model for Adult Educators

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Ti'eshia Moore, North Carolina State University, USA
Joe Houde, North Carolina State University, USA
Chad Hoggan, North Carolina State University, USA
Jennie Wagner, North Carolina State University, USA

9:00 AM

Postcolonial Reflections on Research in an Inuit Community

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Heather Moquin, University of Glasgow, Scotland

9:00 AM

Preparing Culturally Competent Practitioners for a Global Society

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Vivian Mott, East Carolina University, USA
Steven Schmidt, East Carolina University, USA

9:00 AM

Becoming Scholarly Writers: An Autoethnography of Three Emerging Scholars

Claire Kostopulos, Florida International University, USA
Sunny L. Munn, The Ohio State University, USA
Suzanne J. Gallagher, St. Thomas University, USA

9:00 AM

Community-based Lifelong Learning for Promoting Health in Older Adults: A Qualitative Analysis of a Continuing Education Program for Seniors in Toronto

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Miya Narushima, Brock University, Ontario, Canada

9:00 AM

Economic Knowledge Production of the Growing New Farmers Consortium, 2000-2005: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Adult Agricultural Education

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Kim Niewolny, Cornell University, USA
Arthur Wilson, Cornell University, USA

9:00 AM

Community Organizations Behaving Badly: An Examination of Citizen Participation and Learning in and Through Community Building Activities

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Hleziphi Naomie Nyanungo, Pennsylvania State University, USA

9:00 AM

The Rationality of Reluctance and Indifference Toward Adult Education: Difficulties in Recruiting Unemployed Adults to Adult Education

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Sam Paladanius, Linköping, Sweden

9:00 AM

The Limits of Dewey’s Philosophy: Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Experience

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Sangok Park, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Fred M. Schied, Pennsylvania State University, USA

9:00 AM

Race and Racism: A Critical Dialogue

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Elizabeth A. Peterson, National-Louis University, USA
Stephen D. Brookfield, University of St. Thomas, USA

9:00 AM

Sexual Intimacy and the Cultural Learning Relation

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Donovan Plumb, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada

9:00 AM

Examining Interpersonal Dynamics Among Adult Learners Through the Lens of Place

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Esther Prins, Pennsylvania State University, USA

9:00 AM

Are Gender Differences Exhibited in the Self-directed Learning Experiences of Prostate and Breast Cancer Patients?

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Kathleen Rager, University of Oklahoma, USA

9:00 AM

It Must Be Told: Stories of Hope, Dreams, and Possibility from The Open Book (Oral Histories from the NYC Adult Literacy Community)

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Dianne Ramdeholl, Department of Youth and Community Development, NYC/National Louis University, Chicago, USA

9:00 AM

Post-Colonial Feminism in India: Model of Emergent Female Grassroots Leaders in Ahmedabad, Gujarat

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Meena Razvi, Northern Illinois University, USA

9:00 AM

Learning Empowerment, Resistance and Female Identity Development from Popular Television: Trans-women Tell Stories of Trans-formation

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Robin Redmon Wright, Texas A&M University, USA

9:00 AM

Continuing Education and the Changing Needs of Rural Communities: A Case Study of Two University Extension Programs at the University Of Saskatchewan, 1911-1964

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Heather Rollwagen, University of Calgary, Canada
Silvana Romano, University of Calgary, Canada
Scott McLean, University of Calgary, Canada

9:00 AM

Adult Learning in Canada in an International Perspective

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Kjell Rubenson, University of British Columbia, Canada

9:00 AM

Word Counts? Considering National Systems of Accountability and Assessment in Adult Literacy and Numeracy

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Ralf St.Clair, Glasgow University, Scotland
Aliza Belzer, Rutgers University, USA

9:00 AM

Living and Learning in the Shadow of the Shopocalypse: Reverend Billy’s Anti-consumption Pedagogy-of-the-Unknown as Critical Adult Education

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Jennifer Sandlin, Texas A&M University, USA

9:00 AM

Conceptualization of the Scholarship of Engagement in Higher Education: A Ten-Year Retrospective

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Lorilee R. Sandmann, University of Georgia, USA

9:00 AM

Changing Men: Integrating Freirian Education, Human Relations Training, and Anti-Oppression Education in a Men’s Transformational Learning Experience

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Steven A. Schapiro, Fielding Graduate University

9:00 AM

“Just A Minute Sweetheart, Mom’s Writing A Paper” Home, Flexible Learning, and Learning Biographies with Uneven Plots

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Laura Servage, University of Alberta

9:00 AM

Practices on the Periphery: Highly Educated Chinese Immigrant Women Making Occupational Niches in Canada

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Hongxia Shan, OISE/University of Toronto

9:00 AM

Discovering SELF and Purpose in the Arts: The Role of Imagination and Creativity in Transformative Learning and Adult Education’s Responsibility in Facilitating this Learning for Individual and Social Change.

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Soni Simpson, National-Louis University, USA

9:00 AM

Adult Education and Critical Global Citizenship

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Makere Stewart-Harawira, University of Alberta, Canada
Lee Ellis, University of Alberta, Canada

9:00 AM

Healing from Dry Bones: Creative Expression as a Way of Knowing in Diabetes Care

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Heather L. Stuckey, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

9:00 AM

The Interplay between Formal and Informal Training for Basic-Level Workers: Comparing Experiences in Canada and the United Kingdom

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Maurice Taylor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Karen Evans, University of London, England
Alia Mohamed, University of Ottawa, Canada

9:00 AM

Dialogic Management in Adult Education

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Itxaso Tellado, Northern Illinois University, USA

9:00 AM

Shifting Boundaries: Community in a Blended e-Learning Experience

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Terrie Lynn Thompson, University of Alberta, Canada
Jennifer H. Kelland, University of Alberta, Canada
Carmen G. Lawlor, University of Alberta, Canada

9:00 AM

Teaching Critical Media Literacy in Adult and Higher Education: An Action Research Study

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Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Heather L. Stuckey, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Patricia M. Thompson, Pennsylvania State University, USA

9:00 AM

Catalysts for Collective Conscientization in Environmental Adult Education: Mr. Floatie, Tree Squatting and Save-our-Surfers

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Pierre Walter, University of British Columbia, Canada

9:00 AM

Immigration, Literacy, and Adult Education: The Policy Context

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Lurong Wang, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

9:00 AM

Using Biographical Research (or is it Auto/Biography?) to Illuminate Adult and Lifelong Learning: Contested and Illuminating Space

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Linden West, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

9:00 AM

Adult Learners and the Identities They Tell: Pedagogic Spaces for Inviting New Tales

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Andrew Wojecki, University of South Australia, Australia

9:00 AM

Literacy Educators’ Perspectives on Transformation and Authenticity

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Brenda Wright, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Patricia Cranton, Penn State University, USA
B. Allan Quigley, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

9:00 AM

Institutional Ethnography: A Tool for Interrogating the Institutional and Political Conditions of Individual Experience

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Ursula T. Wright, Florida International University, USA
Tonette S. Rocco, Florida International University, USA

9:00 AM

An Exploration of How the Confucian Notion of Scholar-Official has Impacted Chinese People’s View on Careers

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Jie Xiong, University of Alberta, Canada

9:00 AM

Autobiography as Counter-Narrative: An Empirical Study of How Race Enters and Structures the Stories of Our Lives

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Wendy B. Yanow, National-Louis University, Chicago, USA

9:00 AM

Learning: A Processural Outcome of Human Activity

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Chang Gook Youn, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Ian Baptiste, Pennsylvania State University, USA

9:00 AM