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2010
Thursday, June 10th
9:00 AM

Fostering a Literate U.S. Workforce: Perspectives of Adult Educators in Human Resource Development

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Merlissa C. Alfred, Texas A&M University

9:00 AM

9:45 AM

“It’s the physical versus the emotional”: Using poetics to re-present the power of art in the nursing clinical experience

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Carrie Bailey, University of Tennessee
C. Amelia Davis, University of Tennessee

9:45 AM

10:15 AM

Examining the Indian Farmer Suicides through the Social and Environmental Justice Lens

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Yogita Abichandani, University of Georgia
Juanita Johnson-Bailey, University of Georgia

10:15 AM

2011
Friday, June 10th
9:15 AM

Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in the Caribbean and Latin America

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Mary V. Alfred, Texas A&M University
Petra E. Robinson, Texas A&M University
Merlissa C. Alfred, Texas A&M University

9:15 AM

9:30 AM

Rethinking Empowerment: Theories of Power and the Potential for Emancipatory Praxis

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Thomas Archibald, Cornell University
Arthur L. Wilson, Cornell University

9:30 AM

10:00 AM

HIV/AIDS Identity Incorporation and the Temporal Context

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Lisa M. Baumgartner

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Brain-based cognitive processes that underlie feedback between adult students and instructors

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Alexandra Bell, University of Connecticut
M. Carolina Orgnero, University of Connecticut

10:30 AM

10:45 AM

Great Walls from Mao to Now: A Biographical Perspective on Adult Education Inside Chinese Communist Revolution

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Roger Boshier, University of British Columbia
Xu Minghui, Beihang University

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

The Application of Social Learning Theory To Understanding Smoking Behavior Among LGBTQ Individuals

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Lorenzo Bowman, DeVry University/Keller Graduate School of Management
Larry Bryant, Georgia State University

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

Diversity in Adult Education: Lessons learned from a Master of Education Program in Studies of Lifelong Learning with a Focus on Africentric Leadership

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Susan M. Brigham, Mount Saint Vincent University
Sylvia Parris, Mount Saint Vincent University

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

The Role of Spirituality in the Lives of Black Same Gender Loving Men at Midlife

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Larry Bryant, Georgia State University
Lorenzo Bowman, DeVry University/Keller Graduate School of Management

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

Expanding the Conversation on Adult Learning Theories: Theorizing African American Women’s Learning and Development in Predominantly White Organizations

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Marilyn Y. Byrd, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Dominique T. Chlup, Texas A&M University

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

Model Building in Planning Programs: Blending Theory and Practice1

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Rosemary S. Caffarella, Cornell University
Sandra R. Daffron, University of Western Washington

12:00 PM

12:15 PM

Understanding Social Justice Learning in Context: The Usefulness of Complexity Thinking and Social Movement Learning Theories

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Margaret Cain, Westminster College
Susan Seymour, Westminster College

12:15 PM

12:45 PM

Using zines to explore young rural women's “depression” as community education

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Paula Cameron, OISE/University of Toronto

12:45 PM

1:00 PM

Learning Democracy and ‘Difference’ in Civil Society

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Sara Carpenter, OISE/University of Toronto

1:00 PM

1:05 PM

Structural Model of Simulation – Social Constructionist Perspective

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Bo Chang

1:05 PM

1:10 PM

Disrupting the Hegemony of Choice: Community Service Learning in Activist Placements

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Donna M. Chovanec, University of Alberta
Tania Kajner, University of Alberta
Ayesha Mian, University of Alberta
Misty Unverwood, University of Alberta

1:10 PM

1:15 PM

Adult Education Philosophies in Museums, Galleries and Libraries in Canada and England: Preliminary Findings of a Cross-national Study

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Darlene E. Clover, University of Victoria
Kathy Sanford, University of Victoria
Fatma Dogus, University of Victoria

1:15 PM

1:20 PM

Health Beyond the Overpass: Assessing Adult Learning in a Rural Community-Based Cardiovascular Education/Rehabilitation Program

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Maureen Coady, Saint Francis Xavier University

1:20 PM

1:25 PM

“I'm a Black man and I'm doing this job very well”: A Critical Examination of the Impact of Racism on the Career Development of African American Professional Men in Corporate America

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Tonya Harris Cornileus, University of Georgia

1:25 PM

1:30 PM

Insights into experiences in student research forums: The case of the TESOL Doctoral Student Forum

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Joellen E. Coryell, University of Texas at San Antonio

1:30 PM

1:35 PM

“It’s Our Voices” Cancer-Related Digital Stories by Alaska’s Community Health Workers

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Melany Cueva, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Regina Kuhnley, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Laura J. Revels, University of Washington
Anne P. Lanier, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
Mark Digman

1:35 PM

1:40 PM

Participatory Action Research and Anti-Poverty Community Organizing: Methodological Considerations and Preliminary Findings

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Ashleigh Dalton, OISE/University of Toronto
Israt Ahmed, Social Planning Toronto
Joseph E. Sawan, OISE/University of Toronto

1:40 PM

1:45 PM

Unfolding the adult literacy regime

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Richard Darville, Carleton University

1:45 PM

1:50 PM

A Transformative Learning Perspective on Workplace Safety

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R. Bruce Dodge, National-Louis University

1:50 PM

1:55 PM

‘Log’ KyaKahenGey?! (What will ‘people’ say?!): Complicating Sexuality and Empowerment with Community Development Workers in Pakistan

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Shama Dossa, OISE/University of Toronto

1:55 PM

2:00 PM

Looking Within: An Examination Of African American Mental Models Of Museums

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Dana Dudzinska-Przesmitzki, University of Connecticut
Robin S. Grenier, University of Connecticut

2:00 PM

2:05 PM

Consuming My Way Gay An Autoethnographic Account of Coming Out as Consumptive Pedagogy

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Matthew A. Eichler, Texas State University-San Marcos

2:05 PM

2:10 PM

The State, the People, and the Colony: Towards a Critical History of Early Newfoundland Literacy

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Leona M. English, St. Francis Xavier University

2:10 PM

2:15 PM

Inclusion and Effectiveness in Adult Education and Orientation in Less Developed Countries: Case Study of Cameroon

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Tandgyie Evani, University of Dschang
Edmond Biloa, University of Yaounde
Sonny Roland Balinga, University of Dschang

2:15 PM

2:25 PM

Temporary foreign workers in nursing: Disposable workers?

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Jason Foster, Athabasca University
Alison Taylor, University of Alberta

2:25 PM

2:30 PM

The Social Realities of Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Women and the Broader Implications for Adult Educators

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San Juanita Garcia, Texas A&M University

2:30 PM

2:35 PM

Resisting Dominant Narratives of Gender Roles: Lesbian Leaders in Organizational Contexts and Implications for Adult Education

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Julie Gedro, Empire State College

2:35 PM

3:10 PM

Adult education, globalisation and inequality in South Africa. Searching for new analytical frameworks

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Zelda Groener, University of the Western Cape

3:10 PM

3:30 PM

Characteristics Beyond In/Formality of Ways of Learning for Work: A Case of Knowledge-intense, Geographically-distributed Learning

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Carrie P. Hunter, University of British Columbia

3:30 PM

3:35 PM

Transformative Learning With Women: A Critical Review Proposing Linkages for the Personal and Political Spheres*

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

3:35 PM

3:40 PM

Peripheral Vision: Exploring Newcomers’ Perceptions of their Teacher- Learner Relationships in a Medical Community of Practice

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Jodi Jarecke, Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg

3:40 PM

3:50 PM

Banned from the Discourse: Race to the Top and the State of Texas’ exclusion of Welfare Recipients from Educational Policy Discourse

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Michelle Johnson, Texas A&M University

3:50 PM

3:55 PM

Watch, Learn and Become: How Undergraduate Nursing and Medical Students Make Sense of Cultural Representations of their Professions

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Kaela Jubas, University of Calgary
Patricia Knutson, University of Calgary
Kerry McArthur, University of Calgary

3:55 PM

4:00 PM

Learning lives with/in digital media: Emergence of online economy disputants in the midst of economic crisis in South Korea

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Dae Joong Kang, Seoul National University
Seon Joo Choi, Seoul National University
SeungHyeop Lee, Seoul National University

4:00 PM

4:05 PM

Convergence or divergence of continuing vocational training in Europe? Empirical findings and theoretical conclusions for adult education

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Bernd Kapplinger, Humboldt-University Berlin

4:05 PM

4:10 PM

‘Unexpected’ Mentoring Moments Experienced through Dialogue with Elder Colleagues1

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Colleen Kawalilak, University of Calgary

4:10 PM

4:15 PM

Basis of Learning in Urban Communities: Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and the Limits of Contemporary Adult Learning Theories

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Junghwan Kim, Pennsylvania State University
Intak Kwon, Chonbuk National University

4:15 PM

Methodological Challenges in Studying Transformative Learning

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Seon Joo Kim, University of Georgia
Sharan B. Merriam, University of Georgia

4:15 PM

Transformative Professional Development in Unlikely Places: Twitter as a Virtual Learning Community

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Kathleen P. King, University of South Florida

4:15 PM

4:20 PM

Failing To Read Well: The Role of Public Libraries in Adult Literacy, Immigrant Community Building, and Free Access to Learning

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Luis Kong, San Francisco State University

4:20 PM

4:25 PM

A Transformative Dance through “Language Mountains” and “Blind Spots”: Park Educators Learn Responsiveness to Immigrant Newcomers

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Elizabeth Lange, St. Francis Xavier University
Peter Vogels, Grant MacEwan University
Zenobia Jamal, Zenev Educational Consultants

4:25 PM

4:30 PM

The Meaning of ‘Being Literate’ In the Case of Adult Literacy Learners in Korea

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Jihye Lee, Hallym University

4:30 PM

4:35 PM

Older Adults’ Motivation to Learn in Higher Education

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Lin Yi-Yin, University of Georgia

4:35 PM

4:40 PM

Probing the Icebergs of Workplace Learning: Findings of the 1998, 2004 and 2010 Surveys of Work and Lifelong Learning1

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D.W. Livingstone, University of Toronto

4:40 PM

4:45 PM

Graduate Students of Color: A Storied Path to the Professoriate

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Kathy D. Lohr, North Carolina State University
Audrey J. Jaeger, North Carolina State University

4:45 PM

4:50 PM

Exploring the Influence of Gender on Registered Nurses’ Intentions to Leave the Profession

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Stacy L. Lutter, Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg

4:50 PM

4:55 PM

Finding Points of Intersection: Learning through Feminist Non-Credit Learning Processes

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Christine McKenzie, Ontario Institute for Stuides in Education, University of Toronto

4:55 PM

5:00 PM

Resonance and the Importance of Informal Learning in the Literacy Environment

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Rebecca Melville, OISE/University of Toronto

5:00 PM

5:05 PM

How Modern-Day Traditional Healers Diagnose and Treat Cancer: The Case of Malaysia1

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Sharan Merriam, University of Georgia
Mazanah Muhamad, University Putra Malaysia

5:05 PM

5:10 PM

The Intersection of Racist and Homophobic Bullying in Adult and Higher Education: An Introduction of the Three Types of Bullying

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Mitsunori Misawa, University of Georgia

5:10 PM

5:15 PM

Clipped Wings: Professionalism Structuring Adult Educators in a Globalized Workplace

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Robert Mizzi, York University

5:15 PM

5:20 PM

Theological Education in Action: A Study of Racial Perspective Change among Participants in the Student Interracial Ministry of Union Theological Seminary (1960-1968)

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Kirk A. Moll, Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg

5:20 PM

5:25 PM

Does the cap fit? The case for contextualised Initial Teacher Training for vocational teachers

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Bev Morris, Marvellous Minds Training and Consultancy
Steve Gildersleve, Bedford Training Group

5:25 PM

5:30 PM

Competence Development in Fixed-term Employment

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Gesa Münchhausen, Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training

5:30 PM

5:35 PM

Canadian Adult Education: Still Moving

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Tom Nesbit, Simon Fraser University
Budd L. Hall, University of Victoria

5:35 PM

5:40 PM

What’s the social network got to do with it?!?: An adult and higher education evaluation of perceptions and motivations to study abroad

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Shelbee R. Nguyen, University of Texas at San Antonio
Joellen E. Coryell, University of Texas at San Antonio

5:40 PM

5:45 PM

Are all Contexts Learning Contexts? Rethinking the Relationship between Learning and Context in Adult Learning Theory

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Kim L. Niewolny, Virginia Tech
Arthur L. Wilson, Cornell University

5:45 PM

5:46 PM

“Positive Aging” as Consumer Pedagogy: Towards a theoretical linking of adult learning, aging and consumerism

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Trevor Norris, Ontario Institute for Stuides in Education, University of Toronto
Tara Silver, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto

5:46 PM

5:47 PM

Getting Situated in a New Community of Practice: The Early-Career Workplace Learning of First-Generation College Graduates

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Joann S. Olson, Pennsylvania State University

5:47 PM

5:48 PM

State Violence, Learning and the Art of Memory

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Bethany J. Osborne, Ontario Institute for Stuides in Education, University of Toronto
Shahrzad Mojab, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

5:48 PM

5:49 PM

Essentializing the Experiences and Expertise of Adult Literacy Educators

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Christine Pinsent-Johnson, University of Ottawa

5:49 PM

5:51 PM

National Identity as a Source of Knowledge: Implications for Adult Education

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Maria S. Plakhotnik, Florida International University
Tonette S. Rocco, Florida International University

5:51 PM

5:52 PM

Women’s Involvement in Adult Education and Family Literacy: Consequences for Social Networks, Social Support, and Mental Health

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Esther Prins, Pennsylvania State University
Maricela Carrera, Pennsylvania State University
Brendaly Drayton, Pennsylvania State University
Ramazan Gungor, Pennsylvania State University
Faith Miller, Pennsylvania State University
Tom Spencer, Pennsylvania State University

5:52 PM

5:53 PM

From Resistance to "Solidarity": Teaching Race, Class and Gender to Working Class Adults

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Dianne Ramdeholl, Empire State College
Richard Wells, Empire State College

5:53 PM

5:54 PM

The Career Experiences of African American Female Engineers

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Delores Rice, Texas A&M University

5:54 PM

5:55 PM

General, technical and vocational education: Worker’s formal and non- formal education in Argentina and Canada: on the importance of comparing workers ̈ trajectories in different societies

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Graciela C. Riquelme, University of Buenos Aires

5:55 PM

5:56 PM

Psychosocial Issues and Sources of Support Affecting Retention for Adult Learners: Generational Variations

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Debbie Ritter-Williams, University of Phoenix Research Institute
Ruby A. Rouse, University of Phoenix Research Institute

5:56 PM

5:57 PM

Perceptions of Beauty and Identity: The Skin Bleaching Phenomenon in Jamaica

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Petra A. Robinson, Texas A&M University

5:57 PM

5:58 PM

Corporate Universities and Adult Education: Implications for Theory and Practice

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Jeong Rok Oh, University of Minnesota
Cho Hyun Park, Pennsylvania State University

5:58 PM

5:59 PM

A Voice of Silence: Reentry Adult Black Male Students in Higher Education

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Dionne Rosser-Mims, Troy University
Glenn A. Palmer, DeVry University
Pamela Harroff, DeVry University

5:59 PM

6:00 PM

Critical Transformational Learning in the Post-Postmodern World

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Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University
M. Carolyn Clark, Arizona State University
Robin Redmon Wright, University of Texas at San Antonio
M. Carolyn Clark, Texas A&M University

6:00 PM

6:01 PM

How Activists Overcome Alienation through Learning and Collective Action: Considerations from a Recent Case Study

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Joseph E. Sawan, Ontario Institute for Stuides in Education, University of Toronto

6:01 PM

6:02 PM

Anti-Poverty Activism from a CHAT Perspective: A Comparison of Learning across Three Organizations

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Peter H. Sawchuk, Ontario Institute for Stuides in Education, University of Toronto

6:02 PM

6:03 PM

Using Participatory Action Research to Explore The Financial Literacy Needs of those Nearing Retirement

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Barbara J. Scheidt, National-Louis University

6:03 PM

6:04 PM

The Use of Life History Collage to Investigate Significant Learning Experiences of Woman Development Leaders from India

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Susan Seymour, Westminster College

6:04 PM

6:05 PM

The Rise and Fall of Socialist Adult Education in North America: Theorizing from the Literature

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Tara Silver, Ontario Institute for Stuides in Education, University of Toronto
Shahrzad Mojab, Ontario Institute for Stuides in Education, University of Toronto

6:05 PM

6:06 PM

Certification for what? Practitioner perspectives on the changing landscape of adult literacy education

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Suzanne Smythe, Simon Fraser University

6:06 PM

6:07 PM

The Equity Model

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Claudie Solar, University of Montreal

6:07 PM

6:08 PM

How Canadian Diversity and Anti-Oppression Educators Handle the Emotional Challenges of their Practice

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Kirsten Somers, Mount Saint Vincent University

6:08 PM

6:09 PM

Effect of Cueing on Learning Transfer Among Pre-professional Undergraduate Healthcare Students Engaged in a Case-based Analogical Reasoning Exercise

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Timothy E. Speicher, Weber State University
Marijke T. Kehrhahm, University of Connecticut
Alexandra Bell, University of Connecticut
Douglas J. Casa, University of Connecticut

6:09 PM

6:10 PM

Adult Financial Literacy Education and Latina Learners: A Qualitative Case Study

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Karin Millard Sprow, Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg

6:10 PM

6:11 PM

Critiquing War in the Classroom: Problematizing the Normalization of Gendered Militarism

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Nancy Taber, Brock University

6:11 PM

6:12 PM

Using Metaphors to Depict Canada’s Adult Literacy Research Since the Mid-1980s

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Maurice C. Taylor, University of Ottawa
Gillian Kajganich, University of Ottawa
Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier, St. Francis Xavier University
B. Allan Quigley, St. Francis Xavier University

6:12 PM

6:13 PM

Learning and identity in literacy programs

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Lyn Tett, University of Edinburgh
Jim Crowther, University of Edinburgh

6:13 PM

6:14 PM

Institutional Ethnography and Actor Network Theory: The possibilities and challenges of exploring the relational in adult education research

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Terrie Lynn Thompson, Athabasca University
Christine Pinsent-Johnson, University of Ottawa

6:14 PM

6:15 PM

Culturally Responsive Community Based Financial Literacy Education: Practical Implications from a Mixed Methods Study of Financial Educators

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Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg
Edward W. Taylor, Pennsylvania State University
Karin Sprow, Pennsylvania State University

6:15 PM

6:16 PM

Contradictions of Agency, Educational Discourses, and Learner Changes: Mexican Women’s Enactments of Agency in Family Literacy and their Community

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Blaire Willson Toso, Pennsylvania State University

6:16 PM

6:17 PM

Learning to Lead as Learning to Learn: The Experiences of Malay Women at Malaysian Public Universities

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Norseha Unin, Universiti Teknologi MARA
John Dirkx, Michigan State University

6:17 PM

6:18 PM

Catalysts for Transformative Learning in the Making of Scientist- Environmentalists: A Consideration of the Lives of Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and David Suzuki1

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Pierre Walter, University of British Columbia

6:18 PM

6:19 PM

Transformative Learning is Not An Add-On – It is the Essence of Adult Education

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Jacqueline Warrell, University of Calgary
Colleen Kawalilak, University of Calgary

6:19 PM

6:20 PM

War Drums: A Retrospective Analysis of Post 9/11 Media and the Mis-education of the American Public

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Justin W. Williams, Texas State University
Isabel Araiza, Texas A&M University
Matthew Eichler, Texas State University

6:20 PM

6:21 PM

Exploring the Social Relations of Education and Organizing In the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign1

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Sheila Wilmot, OISE/University of Toronto

6:21 PM

6:22 PM

Vampires and Zombies as Critical Public Pedagogy: Using Horror for Critical Adult Education and HRD Instruction

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Robin Redmon Wright, University of Texas at San Antonio

6:22 PM

6:23 PM

Cell Phones for College Teaching: A Literature Review

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Tenzin Yeshi, University of Wyoming
Steven D. Aagard, University of Wyoming

6:23 PM

6:24 PM

In Conversation with John Ohliger and Ivan Illich—April 8-10, 1978

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Jeff Zacharakis, Kansas State University

6:24 PM

Saturday, June 11th
2:20 PM

Older Adult Education: A New Site for Colonization?

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Brian Findsen, University of Waikato

2:20 PM

2:40 PM

Straddling Federal/Provincial Government Relations: The Work of Adult Additional Language Education for Immigrants’ Employment Integration

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Tara Gibb, University of British Columbia

2:40 PM

2:45 PM

From Objects to Subjects: Voices, Perspectives, Histories, and Learning in the South Asian American Experience

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Edith Gnanadass, Pennsylvania State University
Ian Baptiste, Pennsylvania State University

2:45 PM

2:50 PM

Fiction Writing and Learning for Critical Citizenship:Exploring the Potential of Reading and Writing Fiction to Foster Democratic Learning Opportunities

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Patricia A. Gouthro, Mount Saint Vincent University
Susan M. Holloway, University of Windsor
Erin Careless, Mount Saint Vincent University

2:50 PM

3:00 PM

The Quest for a Better Life in a Better World: The Role of Adult Education in Advancing Inclusion of SMGV Learners and Citizens

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Andre P. Grace, University of Alberta

3:00 PM

3:05 PM

Shared Understanding?Cross-Faculty Dialogue on the Challenges and Opportunities in the Emerging Focus on Spirituality

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Janet Groen, University of Calgary

3:05 PM

3:15 PM

Historical Memory and the Construction of Adult Education Knowledge: The Role of Selectivity in Majoritarian Narratives

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Talmadge C. Guy, University of Georgia
Lisa R. Merriweather, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

3:15 PM

3:20 PM

Transformative Learning and the Ecological Crisis: Insights from The Tao of Liberation

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Mark Hathaway, Ontario Institute for Stuides in Education, University of Toronto

3:20 PM

3:25 PM

Transitions from Aboriginal-Controlled Post Secondary Institutes to Public Post Secondary Institutions

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Frances Hunt-Jinnouchi, University of Victoria

3:25 PM

3:45 PM

The Characteristics of Learning in Social Movements: A Pilot Study of an Environmental Organization

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Jihyun Kim, University of Georgia

3:45 PM