Building Sustainable Futures for Adult Learners (Adult Learning in Professional, Organizational, and Community Settings)

Building Sustainable Futures for Adult Learners is an edited and refereed collection of papers published in conjunction with the joint Adult Higher Educational Alliance (AHEA) and American Association of Adult and Continuing Education Conferences (AAACE). This book is the third in a series of scholarly publications associated with the annual AHEA conference. The book is arranged thematically according to the topics of submissions. Building Sustainable Futures is important because it fills a unique niche in the field of adult education, extends the scope of AHEA to a larger audience, and offers a current volume for scholars and practitioners based on both research and practice-based research. Rebuilding lives: narratives of the educational experiences of displaced workers / Margaret A. Voelkel Adult degree programs : factors impacting student persistence / Mathew J. Bergman, Kevin J. Rose, and M. Brad Shuck Do graduate students who set formal goals really graduate at higher rates? / Robert Collins, Jill Codington, and Dorothy Williams College enrollment choices predicted by social capital, academic encouragement, environment, and student-parent differences / Elyse D?nn Lovell and Dustin Barnes Torn between three worlds : examining the graduate school experience of women balancing doctoral education, motherhood, and work / Aimee Tiu Wu Enhancing meaning in adult higher education through arts based learning / Lisabeth Eames Capozzi Re-visioning general education through the adult baccalaureate learning experience / Diane Dick Online learning and application of active learning strategies : adult learners in online settings / Yu-Chun Kuo Collaborations and partnerships : the foundation of technology enhanced active learning / Marilyn Lockhart and Lindsey Jackson Adopting and implementing adult learner-focused hybrid teaching and learning : one institution's journey / Lori A. Peterson and Daniel M. McGuire Give me a real world example : teaching adults critical comprehension using authentic complex texts / Leah Katherine Saal Sustainability and transitional learning : exploring the influence of adult learners' mental models on adaptive change / Brian S. Hentz Negotiating experience and theory : piloting cornerstone And capstone courses to build a sustainable future for an interdisciplinary graduate degree program / Stephen Springer, Omar Lopez, Matthew Eichler, Tennille Lasker-Scott, and Carrie Boden-McGill Incidental learning and complexity in the workplace / Michael D. Harner Staged self-directed learning model: leaving the nest? : from novice to professional / Julie Hall Blending for sustainability: aligning the needs of adult Learners and the needs of health sciences education / Paige L. McDonald, Howard O. Straker, and Laurie B. Lyons Training medical faculty to use adult learning principles and mentoring in clinical teaching / Kathy Peno, Elaine M. Silva Mangiante, and Rita Kenahan When adult learning practitioners encounter education in the health professions : challenges to theory and practice / Teresa J. Carter and Laura P. Gogia Collaborative leadership for sustained partnerships / Margaret H. Rice Shaping leadership culture : the role of adult education in developing and sustaining the next generation of women leaders / Carmela R. Nanton Advancing innovation in higher education / Anna K. Hultquist Prior learning assessment: trends and issues in U.S. post-secondary education / Henry S. Merrill What's in your credit hour? : quantifying intended learning outcomes in education / Frederick Carl Prasuhn and Scott Frasard A hypothetical model to help faculty members in the use of learning contracts with the students / Monica Fedeli, Ettore Felisatti, and Mario Giampaolo Personal and professional experiences to develop learning in teachers' professional qualification / Ettore Felisatti, Monica Fedeli, and Mario Giampaolo Integrating technology into pedagogical content knowledge in K-12 and university professional development / Kathleen B. Fabrikant, Cindy S. York, and Megan E. Morris Developing a repertoire of practice : online instructor dispositions and personalities / Jeral R. Kirwan and Elizabeth Roumell Creating strong partnerships through community coalitions / Clint Cummings and Karen Franck The development of Appalachian adult learners under globalization : a transformative perspective / Fujuan Tan, Lee Nabb, and Robert Sammons Globalization of curricula through partnerships : building competitive global learner capacity / Amy Rell and Roxanne Gonzales.