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Tisdell, Elizabeth J.; Whalen, Gina C.; Johnson, Mira – Adult Learning, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to explore the super-vision of dissertations, from the perspective of the supervisor and two supervisees who did dissertations that had an evocative autoethnographic component. We argue that autoethnography in context of scholarly writing encourages both an inner looking, and an outward looking that results in a…
Descriptors: Supervision, Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Students, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
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Isaac Kofi Biney – Adult Learning, 2024
This paper reflects on Freire's discourse on liberating education and adult educators' educational roles with community groups in transforming communities. Mineral-rich communities in Ghana are in danger of losing water bodies, rich arable lands, and forest vegetation cover through "galamsey," which refers to the gathering of rich…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Transformative Learning, Teacher Role, Foreign Countries
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Hodges, Traci L. – Adult Learning, 2017
Traci L. Hodges is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Her research interests are comparative adult education, African American adult education, and critical education. Having witnessed freedom protests in Madrid, Spain, and Ferguson, Missouri, she shares her…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Activism, Learning Experience
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Walter, Pierre – Adult Learning, 2019
The difficult times in which we live require innovative, creative, and hopeful pedagogies of adult education. This article describes a nontraditional experiential, "empathy-invoking" approach to the teaching of a graduate course on the theory and research of adult learning. The approach begins with the building of a safe learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Nontraditional Education, Empathy, Graduate Study
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Kriner, Bridget A.; Coffman, Karie A.; Adkisson, Anthony C.; Putman, Paul G.; Monaghan, Catherine H. – Adult Learning, 2015
Participating in a doctoral program can be a transformative experience that shapes the identity of the learner. What learning spaces might best facilitate that identity development? This article presents the findings of a study examining doctoral student perspectives of participating in a Community of Practice (COP) intentionally used to foster…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Transformative Learning, Doctoral Programs, Learning Experience
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Sun, Qi – Adult Learning, 2013
This article argues that transformative learning becomes increasingly essential for educators in the changing landscape of the adult and higher education institutions of the United States that has continuously hosted highest numbers of international students among other countries. First, it presents a context discussing learning for…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Educators, Higher Education, Foreign Students