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Olatunji, Taiwo Isaac; Tola-Adewumi, Oladunni Tolu – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Intimate partner violence (IPV) against Nigerian nurses in the US is a complex issue intersecting gender, occupation, culture, economics, and migration. This study adopts an intersectional feminist and adult learning framework to explore the causes and potential solutions. Drawing on a thematic analysis of ten media reports and commentaries on…
Descriptors: Nurses, Family Violence, Gender Differences, Interpersonal Relationship
Qiu, Ruoyi – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This study utilizes the personal critical narrative of myself, a woman from the Chaoshan region in China, as the primary data source to explore the impact of traditional gender roles and patriarchal values on women's personal growth transformation through a feminist lens. Integrating feminist and transformative learning theory, it encompasses my…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Personal Narratives, Criticism
Butterwick, Shauna; Selman, Jan – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
Theater processes can powerfully connect mind, body, and emotions, providing opportunities and spaces for transformation. Based in stories from the authors' disparate but complementary practices, they focus here on facilitators' ethical responsibilities when bringing theater activities to processes of critical deconstruction of oppressive…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Theater Arts, Teaching Methods, Risk
Johnson-Bailey, Juanita; Alfred, Mary V. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter uses the classroom experiences of two black women professors as a lens to examine how transformational theory affects learning and teaching. It also explores the ways in which dimensions of power have an impact on student-teacher interactions.
Descriptors: Females, Adult Educators, Women Faculty, Adult Education