Enchanging at the Crossroads...Research and Practice. Program and Proceedings for the Annual Adult Education Research Conference (27th, Syracuse, New York, May 23-25, 1986).

Overview & Synopsis

These proceedings contain 58 papers. Selected brief titles are: "Teaching Reading in Advanced English to Adult Chinese Students" (Bao); "Analyzing the Training of Trainers and Adult Educators" (Boshier); "Knowledge Utilization in Social Work Practice" (Baskett); "Adult Education in the U.K." (Bright); "Developing Media Literacy in Adults" (Brookfield); "Ideological Orientation and Attitudes toward Professionalism among Adult Educators" (Brown); "Self-Directed Adult Learning" (Caffarella, O'Donnell); "The Psychosocial Development of Women" (Caffarella, Olson); "Adult Education and Social Equality" (Cervero, Lin); "Adult Education and Cultural Determinism" (Clarke); "Two Successful Prison Education Programs" (Collins); "The Canfield Learning Style Inventory" (Conti, Fellenz);"Measuring the Social Environment of Adult Education Classrooms" (Darkenwald, Valentine); "Models of Adult Participation in Informal Science Education" (Dimmock); "The Psychosocial Content of Teacher Talk" (Dirkx); "Literacy Usage among Older Adults" (Fisher); "Clandestine Learning among Slaves" (Gainey); "McClusky's Concept of Margin for Predicting Adult Dropout" (Garrison); "Open Learning" (Haffenden); "Serving Adult High-Risk Students" (Haskins); "Deterrents to Participation in Adult Basic Education" (Hayes, Darkenwald); "Adult Education and Government Repression in the U.S., 1919-1920" (Hellyer); "Adult Learning Styles: Auditory, Visual, and Tactual-Kinesthetic Sensory Modalities" (Hoffer); "Literacy Voluntarism" (Ilsley); "The Identification and Management of Student Stress" (Jones);"Locus of Control and Values of Adult Learners in Schools of Business and Education" (Londoner, Linder, Bauer); "Grassroots Computer Education" (Ludden); "Adult Readers of Fiction" (Mathney); "Innovative Learning" (McIntosh); "New Students and Returned Students" (McLaren); "Black Re-Entry Women" (Meyer); "Education in the Workplace" (Munnelly); "The Small Adult Education Centre" (Pemberton); "Women's Learning: A Perspective from Jungian Individuation" (Rannells); "Forces Influencing Women's Decisions to Return to School as Undergraduates" (Ross); "Learning about Leadership from Experience" (Rossing, Russell); "Workers' Cooperatives: Freirean Opportunity in the Workplace" (Schulman); "Librarians and Self-Directed Learners" (Smith); "Building Inductively-Derived Planning Theory" (Sork);"Learning How to Learn: Adult 'Eductive' Learning" (Stanage); "Social Transformation through Nonformal Education" (Stalker-Costin); "Locus of Control Expectancies of Two Groups of Older Adults in Relation to Participation" (Strickland-Drobnies, Korhonen); "Equipping Adults for Learning: Participation Training" (Stubblefield); "Adult ESL Program Holding Power" (Tanner); "The Influence of Learning Style and Teaching Style on Achievement among Nontraditional Health Professional Students" (Welborn, Conti); "Perspective Transformation and Male Spouse Abusers" (Williams); "Assessing Impact of Literacy Education Programs" (Copeland, et al.); "The Ends and Means of Adult Literacy Education" (Hiemstra, et al.); "Using Research on Women to Reshape Concepts about Learners and Learning" (Karlovic, et al.); "Exploring the Value of Aging" (Hanson, Rugh); "Entering a Nursing Home as a Life Transitional Period" (Parsons). (MN)