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…

Women often use journal writing to discover or regain their voice. They often face attitudinal, situational, and institutional barriers to journal writing that adult educators can help them overcome. (Contains 16 references.) (SK)

Self-assessment leads to greater awareness of the methods one uses to make meaning. It enhances responsibility, self-direction, shifts in perception, and self-questioning. (SK)

Exposure to models and theories about adult development gives learners structure and language they can apply to their own experiences. Responses of 65 women in a development course brought out 6 themes: knowing oneself, accepting oneself, connecting with others, changing perspectives, empowering oneself, and seeking growth and development. (SK)

A consultant who works primarily with women focuses on the promotion of personal change through the use of group processes and collaborative learning reflects on her role as an adult education consultant. (JOW)

Reflective journal writing helps individuals garner information about themselves and construct larger meanings. Techniques include freewriting; list making; describing one-minute in-depth, writing dialogues; and envisioning the future. (SK)

Learning-centered teaching links learning and development by creating a climate of exchange; using assessment to increase awareness of learning needs; promoting learning to learn; holding learners accountable; using multiple strategies for different learning styles; and involving learners in realistic and challenging goals. (SK)

Ursuline College's core curriculum approaches the cognitive and ethical development of women through three anchors: (1) introductory seminar, focused on moving from received to subjective knowing; (2) introduction to culture, moving from subjective to procedural knowing through a wide variety of perspectives; and (3) culminating seminar, focusing…

Three strands of practice and theory--adult learning, women's development, and feminist pedagogy--contribute to development of a learning environment attuned to women's needs. Instead of concentrating on information storage/retrieval, alternative education should focus on requiring fourth-level consciousness: ability to choose how, whether, and…

Development of women outside the mainstream is affected by their social roles and cultural reality. Strategies to aid their development include examining counterproductive assumptions; creating a secure environment; modeling intellectual or linguistic behavior; teaching critical thinking; and being sensitive to the challenges of group work in a…