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Colleen Elizabeth Unroe – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study utilizes adult learning, working-class masculinity, and political economy theories to explore the education and learning that supports engagement in the Just Transition movement in Central Appalachia. The central research question is as follows: in communities with economies formerly dominated by the coal industry, how does an…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Working Class, Masculinity, Economics
Raza, Nadia K. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examines the relationship between community colleges and prisons as similar institutions that absorb and manage displaced workers, economic refugees, and dispossessed adult populations. Based on interviews with adult learners in two community college settings, I discuss how these two seemingly distinctive institutions work…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Correctional Institutions, Adult Students, Adult Learning