ERIC ED332042: Adult Education Research Annual Conference Proceedings (32nd, Norman, Oklahoma, May 30-June 2, 1991).

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Langenbach, MiChael, Comp.
TITLE
Adult Education Research Annual Conference
Proceedings (32nd, Norman, Oklahoma, May 30-June 2,
1991).
INSTITUTION
Oklahoma Univ., Norman. Oklahoma Center for
Continuing Education.
PUB DATE
91
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DESCRIPTORS
'Access to Education; Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome; *Adult Education; 'Adult Educators; Adult
Learning; Adult Literacy; Business Administration;
Continuing Education; Dislocated Workers; Educational
Philosophy; 'Educational Research; Experiential
Learning; Femels; Independent Study; Inservice
Teacher Education; Labor Force Develrpment; Learning
Strategies; 'Literacy Education; Managerial
Occupations; Nonformal Education; Older Adults;
Program Development; Retirement; Sex Differences;
Small Businesses; 'Social Action; Social Change;
Teacher Attitudes; Volunteers
Canada; South Africa
IDENTIFIERS
ABSTRACT
Papers in this volume include: "Retirement Learning"
(Adair); "Effect of Literacy on Personal Income" (Blunt); "Popular
Discourse Concerning Women and AIDS" (Boshier); "John Steinbeck's
Learning Project" (Brackett); "Faculty Careers of Professors of Adult
Education" (Caffarella); "Racism in Canada" (Carriers); "Perspectives
on Program Planning in Adult Education" (Cervero, Wilson); "Inclusive
Language and Perspective Transformation" (Coffman); "Impact of
Critical Social Theory on Adult Education" (Collard, Law); "Assessing
Adult Learning Strategies" (Conti, Fellenz); "Class Age Composition
and Academic Achievement" (Darkenwald et al.); "Redesign of
Continuing Education as a 'Practice/ Problem," (Dirkx et al.);
"Framework for Understanding Developmental Change among Older Adults"
(Fisher); "Value of Literacy for Rural Elderly" (Freer);
"Professional Women as Self-Assessing Adult Learners" (Greenland);
"Democratizing Knowledge" (Group for Collaborative Inquiry);
"Contributions of African American Women to Nonformal Education
during the Civil Rights Movement" (Gyant); "Gender-Related
Differences in Adult Classroom Behavior" (Hayes); "Investigations
into the Human Phenomenon of Commitment" (haley); "Early Human
Resource Development Work" (Jacobson); "An Volunteer Resources
Study" (Jones-Ilsley, Hansel); "Transformation and Self-Renewal at
Midlife" (Karpiak); "Critical Analysis of 'Adult Education
Quarterly" (Kim); "Lindeman and the Meaning of Adult Education"
(Long et al.); "Deconstruction and Its Implications for Adult
Education" (Melichar, Lumpkin); "Learning from Life Experience"
(Merriam, Clark); "Subjects as Partners" (Merrifield, White);
"Phenomenological Investigation of Self-Will and Relationship to
Achievement in African-American Women' (Peterson); "Knowles and the
Mid-Century Shift in Philosophy of Adult Education" (Podeschi);
"Exploring Chinese Conceptions of Learning and Teaching" (Pratt);
"Shaping Literacy" (Quigley); "Analysis of Three Strategic Training
Roles" (Redding); "Deterrents to Participation in Compensatory Adult
Education in South Africa" (Reddy); "What Do Adult College Students
Want in an Instructor?" (Ross-Gordon et al.); "Hilda Worthington
Smith" (Saul, Bernhardt); "Education and Working Class Radicalism"
(Schied); "Personal Transformation through Participation in Social
Action" (Scott); "Gender Differences in Faculty Perceptions of
Academic Career Enhancers and Barriers" (Simpson); "Forgotten Adult
Educators" (Smith); "Return to History" (Stein); "Sketches of the
Landscape" (Warren); "Examining the Relationship between Pragmatism
and Social Action in American Adult Education" (Wilson); and "Adult
Education Movement in the 1950s" (Zacharakis -klutz). (YLB)
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PROCEEDINGS
32nd Annual Adult Education
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Norman, Oklahoma U. S. A.
Compiler: Michael Langenbach
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May 31, 1991
Dear AERC Conferees,
It is my pleasure to welcome
you all to the 32nd annual Adult Education Research
COnference.
We are happy to host the AERC for the first time in Oklahoma. It is
our hope that
this will be a productive and pleasurable experience for all of
you.
The AERC steering committee has selected
a variety of provocative and well-
conceived research papers. We commend them
on their hard work and congratulate
the researchers for being selected.
The Program Committee wishes to thank the Oklahoma Center for Continuing
Education personnel for their hard work
on AERC's behalf.
We wish you a productive visit.
Lloyd Korhonen
Conference Chair
University of Oklahoma
ADULT EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Steering Committee
j_oyce Stalker
Chair
Rick Orem
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Northern Illinois University
University _of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
DeKalb, Illinois
Alan Quigley_
Adrian Blunt
Penn State
niversity
U
University of Saskatchewan
Monroeville, Pennsylvania
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Papers Presented
Page
Adair, Suzanne Rowan
Retirement Learning:
Seven Stories
1
of Load, Power, and Margin
Blunt, Adrian
The Effect of Literacy on Personal
9
Evidence from the "Survey
Income:
of Literacy Skills Used in Daily
Activities"
Bosnier, Roger
Popular Discourse Concerning Women
14
and AIDS
Brockett, Ralph G.
John Steinbeck's Learning Project:
21
SelfDirection and Struggle in
Writing The Grapes, of Wrath
Cafarella, Rosemary S.
Faculty Careers of Professors of
27
Adult Education:
Yesterday, Today
and Tomorrow
Carriere, Elizabeth
Racism in Canada:
A Conceptual
33
Outline
Cervero, Ronald M.
Perspectives on Program Planning in
39
Wilson, Arthur L.
Adult Education
Coffman, Pauline M.
Inclusive Language and Perspective
49
Transformation
Collard, Susan
The Impact of Critical Social Theory
56
Law, Michael
on Adult Education:
A Preliminary
Evaluation
Conti, Gary J.
Assessing Adult Learning Strategies
64
Fellenz, Robert A.
Darkenwald, Gordon
Class Age Composition and Academic
74
Bowman, Peter
Achievement
Novak, Richard
Dirkx John M.
The Redesign of Continuing Education
80
Lavin, Ruth A.
as a "Practical Problem":
What
Spurgin, Michael E.
Teachers Have to Say
Holder, Birdie
Page
Papers Presented
The Effects of Barriers to Participa-
Ericksen, Charles G.
87
tion and Attitudes toward Adult
Education on Small Business Managers'
Participation in Adult Education
A Framework for Understanding
Fisher, James C.
93
Developmental Change Among Older
Adults
The Value of Literacy for the Rural
101
Freer, Kevin J.
A Naturalistic Study
Elderly:
Professional Women as Self-Assessing
107
Greenland, Annette
Adult Learners
Democratizing Knowledge:
A Model
Croup for Collabora-
113
for Collaborative Inquiry
tive Inquiry:
Contributions of African American
119
Cyant, LaVerne
Women to Nonformal Education During
the Civil Rights Movement, 1955-1965
Gender-Related Differences in Adult
124
Hayes, Elisabeth
Perceptions of
Classroom Behavior:
Students and Teachers
Investigations int:; the Human
132
Ilsley, Paul J.
Phenomenon of Commitment
Early Human Resource Development
139
Jacobson, Shirley
Its Impact Upon Present-Day
Work:
Practitioners
The AFS Volunteer Resources Study:
147
Jones-Ilsley, Donna
An International Investigation of
Volunteerism in Eight Nations
Transformation and Self-Renewal at
153
Karpiak, Irene E.
Change Patterns, Curriculum
Midlife:
Possibilities
Critical Analysis of Adult Education
159
Kim, Kyung Hi
Quarterly
167
Lindeman and the Meaning of Adult
Long, Huey B.
Education
Confessors, Cary
Confessore, Sharon
Stubblefield, Claire
Blanchard, Dana
papers Presented
page
Melichar, Kenneth E.
Deconstruction and Its Implications
172
Lumpkin, Lisa Hodges
for Adult Education
Merriam, Sharan B.
Learning from Life Experience:
What
179
Clark, M. Carolyn
Makes it Significant?
Merrifield, Juliet
Subjects as Partners:
Research with
185
White, E. Loretta
Women Displaced Textile Workers
Harland, Emmalou
Does Inservice Training Really Make
192
Seevers, Brenda
a Difference in Adult Educators'
Smith, Keith
Knowledge and Attitudes Relating to
Principles of Adult Teaching and
Learning?
Peterson, Elizabeth A.
A Phenomenological Investigation of
197
Self-Will and the Relationship to
Achievement in African-American
Women
Podeschi, Ronald
Knowles and the Mid-Century Shift
203
in Philosophy of Adult Education
Pratt, Daniel D.
Exploring Chinese Conceptions of
209
Learning and Teaching
Quigley, B. Allan
Shaping Literacy:
An Historical
218
Analysis of Literacy Educat:on
as
Social Policy
Redding, John
An Analysis of Three Strategic
226
Training Roles:
Their Impact Upon
Strategic Planning Problems
Reddy, Kistammah
Deterrents to Participation in
232
Bergmann
Compensatory Adult Education in
South Africa
Ross-Cordon, Jovita M.
What Do Adult College Students
239
Donaldson, Joe F.
Want in an Instructor?
A
Flannery, Daniele D.
Triangulated Study of Three
Thompson, Melody M.
Diverse Samples
Saul, Jean
Hilda Worthington Smith:
Pioneer
246
Bernhardt, Jacqueline
Educator for Women Workers
Schied, Fred M.
Education and Working Class
252
Radicalism:
the Immigrant Origins
of American Socialism
Papers Presented
259
Personal Transformation Through
Scott, Sue M.
A
Participation in Social Action:
Case Study of the Leaders in the
Lincoln Alliance
268
Gender Differences in Faculty
Simpson, Edwin L.
Perceptions of Academic Career
Enhancers and Barriers
Two
274
Forgotten Adult Educators:
Smith, Stanley W.
Women of America's Radical Left
Adult Education
281
Return to History:
Stein, Jerome A.
in the Context of American Culture -
The Writing of Lawrence Cremin
Con-
286
Sketches of the Landscapes:
Warren, Barbara A.
temporary Philosophical Orientations
co Adult Education
292
Examining the RelAtionship Between
Wilson, Arthur L.
Pragmatism and Social Action in
American Adult Education
The Adult Education Movement in
302
Zacharakis-Jutz, Jeff
the 1950s
Page
Symposium Papers
308
Reconstructing the Adult Education
Hart, Mechthild
The Value of Feminist
Enterprise:
Karlovic, Nancy
Theory for Adult Education
Loughlin, Kathleen
Meyer, Susan
314
Popular Education for Social Change--
Jeria, Jorge
A Conceptual
Moving Beyond Freire:
Davenport, Suzanne
Framework for Popular Education in
White, Connie
the Post-Freireian Perspective
Beder, Hall
Page
Sympo,sium Papers
318
Adult Education and Social Change:
Sissel, Peggy
Questions for Scholarship and
Butterwick, Shauna
Practice
McKinney, Catherine
Peters, John
Heaney, Tom