Groundings in Nature Mysticism and Adult Learning

Historically, American education has functioned as the benefactor and disseminator of nature education, although that role has diminished in direct proportion to the diminutive presence of American natural landscapes. This withdrawal has led many to adulthoods typically devoid of a sense of place on the planet, as well as potentially limiting the ability to experience the sublime or mystical insights of life. This discussion investigates an experiential, interdisciplinary-action approach, used at Yellowstone National Park and a Canadian wilderness project, that supports and informs the reintegration of nature for the sublime or mystical development of adult students in higher education

New Diversity Publishing Outlet: Adult Educators Overcome Exclusionary Policies

Research strongly supports the notion that publishing houses lack sufficient diversity in both high and middle-level staff members to allow for a diverse philosophical outlook and appreciation to fairly support underrepresented groups wishing to publish their research findings in multiculturalism, gender/sexual orientations studies, race and class. Resultantly, these biases confront both adult educators and other authors writing in the areas of social justice and diversity. This presentation will investigate the historical factors of exclusion in the publishing industry, and more specifically within university presses, to explain an initiative (praxis) launched to open access by way of creating a progressively new adult education publishing concern at the University of Wyoming: the College of Education Monograph Series’ American Adult Educators

Exploring Ways to Investigate Instructors’ Roles in Facilitating Transformative Learning Processes for International Students

The purpose of this roundtable session is to identify, and develop ideas and methods to research ways in which face-to-face and online instructors of international students can most effectively facilitate positive transformation. The transitions and challenges that international students often experience will be discussed as well as varying perspectives about how these adult learners can be optimally supported. The benefits and limitations of previous research methods used to investigate international students’ transformation will be explored

The Worsening Political Divide: Adult Education as Part of the Cure

The US is experiencing extreme social and political polarization not seen since the Civil War. This divisiveness is causing civil unrest and governmental dysfunction which threatens the stability of the nation. Four major causes of the current state are party realignment, the deregulation of news broadcasting, algorithmic personalization of electronic information, and an unknowing public. Adult education can and should be part of the remedy reducing or eliminating harmful polarization. Knowledge of authoritative systems is key to the solution. To promote such knowledge, adult educators can create practical and theoretical learning experiences about authoritative systems and incorporate such knowledge into existing courses and programs. Breadth of the field should produce myriad ways to do so particular to each educator’s practice

Electromagnetic Meson Production in the Nucleon Resonance Region

Recent experimental and theoretical advances in investigating electromagnetic meson production reactions in the nucleon resonance region are reviewed.Comment: 75 pages, 42 figure

Education for killing and the CEM : A comparative study of the methods used to educate the extermination personnel of Nazi Germany and the contemporary learning design Critical Events Model

Includes bibliographical references.The thesis compares the development of education for personnel performing mass murder during the Holocaust with Leonard Nadler's currently prominent learning program design model known as the Critical Events Model (CEM) in order to show that the results of adult educational experiences are evaluated relative to those who implement the learning experience. The document provides a brief history of anti- Semitism, information on the three different types of killing operations (Special Units, concentration camps, and extermination camps) and the personnel involved, a description of the CEM, and three iterations (plus one reiteration) of comparison. The treatment exhibits conditioning as a means of education, and raises issues within the field of adult education such as the acceptability of the use of propaganda, accountability for the assurance of non-harmful utility of learning programs, and the nature of the field itself. The reader is invited to draw his or her own insights.M.S. Ed. (Master of Education