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Author:

Rudy, Bruce Samuel

Title:

Organizational Learning and Disaster Management in a County Coroner's Office: A Case Study

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Organizational Learning
Disaster Management

File:

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Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Truman Ziegenfuss Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member
Frances T. Munzenrider, Committee Member

Author:

Pearlman, David P

Title:

Learning and Constructing Meaning: Adults Volunteering in the Boy Scouts

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Learning
Volunteering
Boy Scouts

File:

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Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member
Melody M Thompson, Committee Member
Robert Lewis, Committee Member

Author:

Swai, Elinami Veraeli

Title:

CONSTRUCTION OF WOMANHOOD IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF WOMEN IN RURAL TANZANIA

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

post structural feminist theory
identity. learning
knowing
CHAT

File:

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Committee Members:

Ian E Baptiste, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member
Paul T Zeleza, Committee Member

Author:

Nash, Heather M

Title:

Understanding the Performance: Learning Identity and Domestic Violence

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

domestic violence
women
learning
identity

File:

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Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Marnina K Gonick, Committee Member

Author:

Choi, Ilseon

Title:

THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF TEACHERS AT A LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
gerontology
phenomenology
peer teaching
older adult volunteerism

File:

Download Dissertation_Ilseon_Choi.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Alison Alene Carr Chellman, Committee Member
Sherry Lynn Willis, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Juliet Anne

Title:

VOICES, VALUES, VIEWS: A NARRATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY OF A VOLUNTEER LITERACY PROGRAM STUDENT INVOLVEMENT GROUP

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
literacy
participatory education
narrative ethnography

File:

Download Juliet_Smith_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Jae Yeol

Title:

From lifetime employment to self-employment: Learning and job instability in Korea

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

lifetime employment
learning
job instability
adult learning
transformative learning
Korean workers

File:

Download JaeYeolKim_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Sharon Louise Falkenstern, Committee Member
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member

Author:

McCormick Higgins, Judith Ann

Title:

FINDING OUR WAY: WOMEN'S LIVED EXPERIENCES LEADING TO THE LEGISLATURES OF PENNSYLVANIA AND MARYLAND

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Women legislators
Pennsylvania
Maryland
women politicians

File:

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Committee Members:

Ian E Baptiste, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Member
Alison Alene Carr Chellman, Committee Member
Carol Ruth Nechemias, Committee Member

Author:

Lalley, Kristine

Title:

Learning in context in a short-term education abroad program

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

education abroad
study abroad
short-term study abroad
situated learning theory
qualitative study
learning in context
processes of learning

File:

Download Kristine_Lalley_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ian E Baptiste, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Member
Richard Francis Devon, Committee Member
Renata S Engel, Committee Member

Author:

Hunter, Lynn

Title:

Role Integration of Adult Women Online Learners

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

adult distance learners
adult women learners
role integration
role conflict

File:

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Committee Members:

Carol L Colbeck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert D Reason, Committee Member
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Member
Melody M Thompson, Committee Member

Author:

Parrish, Marilyn McKinley

Title:

Seeking Authenticity: Women and Learning in the Catholic Worker Movement

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

learning
women
history
adult education
social movements
spirituality
social justice

File:

Download MarilynMcKinleyParrishdissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward W Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Member
Kenneth Brian Cunningham, Committee Member
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member

Author:

Vonada, Nicholas A

Title:

Returning to College: A Study of a Federally Funded Retraining Program

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Trade Adjustment Act and outsourcing
globalization
retraining
Adult Education
dislocated workers

File:

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Committee Members:

Sharon Louise Falkenstern, Committee Member
Priya Sharma, Committee Member
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Hess, Trina R

Title:

LIVING BETWEEN THE EXTREMES: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF HOW MID-LIFE WOMEN RECREATE THEIR IDENTITY AFTER A WORK TRANSITION

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

phenomenology
learning identity
work transition
women
mid-life
adult development

File:

Download HESSDISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eunice May Askov, Committee Member
Judith Ann Kolb, Committee Member
Sharon Louise Falkenstern, Committee Member

Author:

Zorrilla, Ana Carlina

Title:

More Than Meets the Eye: Adult Education for Critical Consciousness in Luis Camnitzer's Art

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education for critical consciousness
critical public pedagogy
Luis Camnitzer
Stuart Hall
systems of representation
art

File:

Download Ana_Zorrilla_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ilhan Kucukaydin, Committee Member
Peter Jones Kareithi, Committee Member
Robin Veder, Special Member
Fred Michael Schied, Special Member

Author:

Karnes, Sandra Lee

Title:

Surviving Job Loss: Motivation Among Second Year Trade Adjustment Assistance(taa)students

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

TAA program
Adult Education
Second Year College Students

File:

Download DISSERTATION_FINAL_COPY.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melody M Thompson, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Special Member

Author:

Fickes, Patricia Diane

Title:

A Community of Practice: Crafts Persons' Learning in Old Bedford Village

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Community of practice
Ethnography
Adult education - Informal
Cultural heritage preservation
Fundamental learning dualities

File:

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Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member
Jeffrey Cash Bridger, Special Member
John David Popp, Committee Member

Author:

Rutter, III, J. Paul

Title:

Obstacles to funding higher education for adults: An analysis of selected Pennsylvania voters

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Financial Aid
Voters
Politics

File:

Download RUTTER-Complete_Mar14.2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melody M Thompson, Committee Member
Edgar I Farmer Sr., Committee Member
Dennis Karl Davis, Committee Member

Author:

Wehler, Bruce Alan

Title:

Until all the pieces fit: A hermeneutic phenomenology of the informal learning of selected foster parents in northeastern Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

foster parenting
informal learning
hermeneutic phenomenology
situated learning theory
constructivist learning theory

File:

Download Wehler_Dissertation_December_2014_UP.pdf

Committee Members:

Melody M Thompson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melody M Thompson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Member
David Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Sheely, Scott James

Title:

Knowledge Production and Transmission in an Agricultural Industry Cluster: The Poultry Business in South Central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

community of practice
tacit learning
informal education
vertical integration
broiler production
industry cluster

File:

Download Sheely_Knowledge_Production_and_Transmission_version_16.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor