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Author:

Schneider, Stephen Anthony

Title:

Organic Classrooms: Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 1932-1961

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Civil Rights Movement
Highlander Folk School
social change
english studies
adult education
rhetoric and composition
workers education

File:

Download schneider_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Keith Gilyard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member
Dr Jack Selzer, Committee Member
Dr. Ronald Jackson II, Committee Member

Author:

Kramer, Lorie Renee

Title:

The role of relationships between adults and canine companions: The impact on personal growth and well-being

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
human-animal bond
anthrozoology
learning through relationships/connections
attunement
attachment to pets

File:

Download Dissertation-final_for_Thesis_Office.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann Swartz, Committee Member
Dr Richard Fiene, Committee Member

Author:

Sauer, Michael Paul

Title:

Storytelling by Adults Diagnosed with Terminal Illness: Narrative Identifying through Dialogical Research

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Dialogical Research
Storytelling
adult education
Listening
terminal illness
terminal diagnosis
narrative
narrative identifying
narrative learning
narrative medicine
narrative identifying
dialogism
meaning in life
end stage
good death
worldview construction
lifestory
unfinalizable

File:

Download sauer_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Angelica Cranton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jo Tyler, Committee Member
Rebecca Marie Lafountain, Committee Member

Author:

Callaghan, Carolyn Marie

Title:

Culturally diverse cohorts: The exploration of learning in context and community

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Cohorts
cultural diversity
adult education
sociocultural perspective
culturally diverse cohorts

File:

Download Callaghan_dissertation_2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward W Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Martha Jean Strickland, Committee Member
Kimberly A Griffin, Committee Member

Author:

Eifert, Angela Lynn

Title:

A globetrotting pilgrimage: An exploration of spiritual growth and the development of intercultural competence

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

spirituality
intercultural competence
adult education
followers of Christ

File:

Download Final_dissertation_for_Angela_Eifert.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Edward Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Shanetia Clark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martha Jean Strickland, Committee Member
Heather L Stuckey, Committee Member

Author:

Hunt, Irma L

Title:

Visual Arts and Older Adult Learners in Retirement

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

older adults
generativity
art as a way of knowing
visual arts
retirement
older learners
adult education

File:

Download hunt_final_dissertation_oct_2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Ed Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Ed Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carolyn June Grasse Bachman, Committee Member
Dr Thomas Bettinger, Committee Member
Felicia Lynne Brown Haywood, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Betts, Elana Cherice

Title:

Fostering LGBTQ Advocacy in School Psychology as Adult Education: Shaping Attitudes, Beliefs, and Perceived Control

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

critical theory
Theory of Planned Behavior
adult education
LGBTQ
school psychology
affirmative practice
multicultural ed

File:

Download EBetts_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Member
Thomas Bettinger, Committee Member
Holly L Angelique, Committee Member
Kyle Leonard Peck, Committee Member

Author:

Gable, Nancy E

Title:

We Make this Road by Walking: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Diaconal Ministers as Emancipatory Educators of Adults

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

emancipatory education
Teaching Perspectives Inventory
adult education
diaconal ministry
Paulo Freire
Myles Horton

File:

Download Nancy_Gable_FINAL_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward W Taylor, Committee Member
Gina Brelsford, Committee Member
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member

Author:

Campbell, Kimeka Georeen

Title:

"Coming to this Caribbean mecca": The role of place in knowledge construction among Trinbagonian migrants in Brooklyn.

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

place
space
adult education
Trinidad
Tobago
informal learning
Brooklyn
cultural historical activity theory

File:

Download KGC_ADTED_CIED_DISSERTATION_FINAL_7.24.2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Tamminga, Committee Member
Davin Jules Carr Chellman, Committee Member

Author:

Mccadden, Theodore Edward

Title:

"for People Who Aren't Sure Who They Are, Theatre is a Great Place to Be": Narratives of Actors and their Sexual Identities

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
theatre
acting
embodied learning
performance of gender
adult development
LGBT development
queer theory

File:

Download McCadden_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward W Taylor, Committee Member
Holly L Angelique, Committee Member
Adam Ross Gustafson, Committee Member