Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Adult and Continuing Education Research Conference

Abstract

These proceedings consist of 18 papers from a conference to provide researchers and practitioners with a forum for sharing research findings that focus on the link between research and practice in adult, continuing, and community education. The five invited papers are as follows: Towards a Pedagogy of Ethical Coercion (Ian Baptiste); Circuit of Culture: A Critical Look at Dilbert and Workplace Learning (Vicki K. Carter, Sharon L. Howell); Adult Education as Building Community: The Parameters and Realities of Enterprise Identity in North America (1945-70) (Andre P. Grace); From Motherhood to Sister-Solidarity: Home-making as a Counterdiscourse to Corporate Environmental Polluting (Robert J. Hill); and How Adult Learners Change in Higher Education (Kathleen P. King). The 13 refereed papers include the following: Evaluation Research in Workplace Literacy Programs (Eunice N. Askov, Andree Rose Catalfamo); \u27It\u27s Not Like Normal School\u27: Adult Learners\u27 Perspectives on a Nontraditional GED [General Educational Development] Program (Alisa Belzer); Linguistic, Cultural, and Educational Adjustments of Adult ESL [English as a Second Language] Female Students in New York (Lucia Buttaro); Learning While Working with \u27The Opposition\u27: A Study of Meaning in a Cross Boundary Work Group (Marjorie H. Carkhuff); African American Women in a Predominantly Caucasian Female Profession: Learning Paths to Positions of Prominence (Janet V. DeLany); Selecting Communications Technology for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Program Delivery (Peter J. Graybash, Jr.); Factors that Influence Persistence among Students in Middle Adulthood at the Community College (Scott B. Greenberg); Technical Nontraditional Student College Attrition: The Student\u27s Perspective (Harvey F. Hoffman, John L. Elias); Complexity Theory as a Framework for Adult Education Research Design (Larry J. Krafft, Kathy Brill, T. J. Titcomb); Cohort Group Effectiveness in Accelerated Programming (Alan R. Lisk, Colleen A. DiRaddo); Cooperative Learning: Test-Taking in a Nontraditional Manner in the College Classroom (David L. Tucker); The Applicability of Classical and Metaphorical Organizational Models to the Virtual University: A Case Study (Joseph J. Zerby, Jr.); and Describing RN-BSN [Registered Nurse-Bachelor of Science in Nursing] Education from the Learner\u27s Perspective: A Focus Group Study (Patti Rager Zuzelo). (YLB