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Author:: Neill, Amanda Crystal
Title:: Museum Docents' Understanding of Interpretation
Graduate Program:: Adult Education
Keywords:: hermeneutics
interpretation
docents
museum
symbolic interactionism
File:: Download Neill.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Ed Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward W Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Robin Veder, Committee Member
George W Boudreau, Committee Member

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Author:: Varner, Barbara Eileen
Title:: An Exploration of how Women Probation and Parole Officers Learn to Negotiate Power and Interest in the Criminal Justice System
Graduate Program:: Adult Education
Keywords:: Narrative
Negotiating Power and Interest
Criminal Justice Education
Women Probation and Parole Officers
Probation and Parole
Adult Education
File:: Download Varner_psu_final_3.15.10_1_.pdf
Committee Members:: Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Irene C Baird, Committee Member
Holly L Angelique, Committee Member
Heather L Stuckey, Committee Member

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Author:: Toso, Blaire Willson
Title:: Latina Mothers' Enactments of Agency: Achieving Desires through Discourses in Family Literacy.
Graduate Program:: Adult Education
Keywords:: adult education
agency
family literacy
Even Start
mothering
Foucault
literacy
immigrants
Latina
narrative inquiry
discourses
Good Mother
File:: Download BWToso_DISSERTATION_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member

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Author:: Snelson, Donna Ayers
Title:: Stories of Exemplary Hospital Registered Nurses: A Narrative Analysis
Graduate Program:: Adult Education
Keywords:: retention in nursing
exceptional nurses
nurse stories
narrative analysis
File:: Download Snelson_-_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Patricia Angelica Cranton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Samuel William Monismith, Committee Member
Denise Gaspari Meister, Committee Member

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Author:: Chen , Ho-Yuan
Title:: A STUDY OF OLDER ADULT STUDENTS’ SATISFACTION WITH WEB-BASED DISTANCE LEARNING AT THE NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TAIWAN
Graduate Program:: Adult Education
Keywords:: students’ satisfaction
older adult
distance education
File:: Download Dissertation_.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Grahame Moore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Grahame Moore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melody M Thompson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Wei Fan Chen, Committee Member

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Author:: Lim, Hyunmin
Title:: LEARNING AND SOCIAL PROCESS OF AGING AMONG KOREAN OLDER MARRIED WOMEN: THE CULTURAL-HISTORICAL ACTIVITY THEORY ANALYSIS
Graduate Program:: Adult Education
Keywords:: informal learning
social process of aging
the cultural-historical activity theory
Korean older married women
File:: Download Lim_Dissertation_Final_rev_11-29-2010.pdf
Committee Members:: Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Sharon Louise Falkenstern, Committee Member

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Author:: Park, Hyungmin
Title:: EXPLORING THE MIGRANT EXPERIENCES OF MYANMARESE MALE SOCIAL ACTIVISTS IN SOUTH KOREA: A CULTURAL-HISTORICAL ACTIVITY THEORY ANALYSIS
Graduate Program:: Adult Education
Keywords:: migrant workers
informal learning
cultural historical activity theory(CHAT)
migrant experiences
phenomenology
File:: Download Hyungmin_Park_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Pong Suet Ling, Committee Member
David Post, Committee Member

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Author:: Olson, Joann S.
Title:: Chasing a Passion: The Early-Career Lived Experience of First-Generation College Graduates
Graduate Program:: Adult Education
Keywords:: situated learning
workplace learning
first-generation college graduate
adult education
college-to-work transition
communities of practice
phenomenology
File:: Download Olson_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member
Melody M Thompson, Committee Member
Dr Spencer G Niles, Committee Member

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Author:: Spaulding, James Thomas
Title:: THE EFFECTS OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING WITH PLAYFULNESS IN THE ADULT EDUCATION CLASSROOM
Graduate Program:: Adult Education
Keywords:: simulation
learning transfer
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
playfulness
adult education
PALA
learning activity
instructional design
role play
File:: Download JTS_Dissertation_final_Rev.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Patricia A Cranton Ph D, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward W Taylor, Committee Member
Kathryn Weed Jablokow, Committee Member
Roy Clariana, Committee Member

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Author:: Clemente, Kathleen Ann
Title:: Experiences of Adult Students in Multi-generational Classrooms
Graduate Program:: Adult Education
Keywords:: Multigenerational classrooms
Adult students
File:: Download Dissertation_Final_1_.pdf
Committee Members:: Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia M Thompson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Kimetta Hairston, Committee Member
Denise Gaspari Meister, Committee Member
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member

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