Historically, the representation of Black women in film has been non-existent at worst and highly questionable at best. As cross-cultural spectators--"a Black woman and a White man"--we used an oppositional gaze to critically "look" at the representation and adult development of Black female protagonists across U.S. films.…

Adults learn simply through life experience and possibly by pursuing an education. Pursuing an education would depend on the setting of the experience. This project aimed to explore the theories and frameworks that inform the field of adult learning today. A course project was constructed of seven individual projects, each exploring different…

The purpose of this instrumental, multisite case study is to examine fidelity, adaptation, and differentiation challenges found at Wood Badge, a nationwide Boy Scouts of America training for adult volunteer leaders. Our iterative analysis of more than 900 pages of fieldnotes and 400 pages of documents revealed facilitators often explicitly taught…