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Author:

Bailey, April Elizabeth

Title:

EXPLORING ADULT BUSINESS STUDENTS’ TRANSITION TO COLLEGE THROUGH A FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR COURSE: AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult students
business students
first-year seminar
student transitions and adjustment
undergraduate business programs
action research

File:

Download April_Bailey_Final_Dissertation_April_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Angelica Cranton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniele D Flannery, Committee Member
Senel Poyrazli, Committee Member
Stephen Patrick Schappe, Committee Member
Heather L Stuckey, Committee Member
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member

Author:

Knisely, Andrew Jon

Title:

AN EXPLORATION OF THE SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT OF BURKINABÉ CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE PASTORS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY IN ADULT EDUCATION

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
spirituality
spiritual development
African studies
contextual theology
pastoral education
Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
Burkina Faso

File:

Download AndrewKniselyDissertationfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member
Melody M Thompson, Committee Member
Martha Jean Strickland, Committee Member
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member

Author:

Wade , Barbara

Title:

Statistical Literacy in Adult College Students

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

statistical literacy
adult education
statistics
attitudes and statistics
beliefs and statistics
research methods and statistics

File:

Download 01_FINAL_4_6_2009_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Ed Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward W Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member
Pamela Preston, Committee Member
John Basil Urenko, Committee Member

Author:

Mattes, Bilita Searls

Title:

EDUCATION ACTION RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION AS FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

faculty development
action research
education action research
higher education
adult learning

File:

Download Bilita_Mattes_Dissertation102908.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Angelica Cranton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward W Taylor, Committee Member
Ernest Dishner, Committee Member
Denise Gaspari Meister, Committee Member

Author:

McQuiggan, Carol

Title:

Preparing to Teach Online as Transformative Faculty Development

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

transformative learning
faculty development
teaching online

File:

Download McQuigganDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Angelica Cranton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Denise Gaspari Meister, Committee Member
William John Mahar, Committee Member

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

Author:

Hocking, Deborah Elizabeth

Title:

Accounting in Action: Learning in the Field

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

holistic approaches to learning
AICPA core competencies
accounting education
service learning
experiential learning
reflection

File:

Download Hocking_Doctoral_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rhoda Joseph, Committee Member
Kenneth Brian Cunningham, Committee Member
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member

Author:

Eichler, David Franklin

Title:

The Experience of Using Reflective Journals on an Outward Bound Course

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adventure education
Outward Bound
journaling
experiential education
outdoor education
reflection

File:

Download David_Eichler_Final_Dissertation_1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Angelica Cranton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniele D Flannery, Committee Member
Samuel William Monismith, Committee Member
George Richard Vahoviak, Committee Member

Author:

Jensen, Daniel

Title:

THE MALE ADULT WORKING-CLASS STUDENT IN FORMAL HIGHER EDUCATION: AN IDENTITY CRISIS?

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Social Class
Working-Class
Higher Education
Adult Education
Identity
Male Students

File:

Download DJDissertation_UMI.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniele D Flannery, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member
Kenneth Brian Cunningham, Committee Member
Holly L Angelique, Committee Member

Author:

Hayduk, Dina

Title:

USING TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AS A FRAMEWORK TO EXPLORE WOMEN AND RUNNING

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

transformative learning
women
running
narrative inquiry

File:

Download Final_Formatted_Aug_2011.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
Carol A Smith, Committee Member
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member

Author:

Thompson, Diane S.

Title:

No More a Stranger: The Development of Academic Literacy in Adult English Language Learners in Community College

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

developmental education
community college education
adult education
composition studies

File:

Download THOMPSON._ADTED_FINAL_DISSERTATION_FOR_SUBMISSION_6.3.11.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Edward Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward W Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member
Shanetia Clark, Committee Member

Author:

Albergato-Muterspaw, Francesca

Title:

The Role of Music in Healing and Grief Processes of Bereaved Adult Learners

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

music and bereavement
music as a coping mechanism
music as a way of knowing

File:

Download Francesca_Albergato-Muterspaw_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member
Felicia Lynne Brown Haywood, Committee Member
Glen Alan Mazis, Committee Member
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member

Author:

Chajnacki, Gregory

Title:

CHARACTERISTICS OF LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: A SURVEY OF LARGE, PUBLICLY-OWNED COMPANIES

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

organization performance
organizational learning
learning organization
workplace learning

File:

Download Chajnacki_Thesis_Adted_0107j.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniele D Flannery, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward W Taylor, Committee Member
Margaret Cecilia Lohman, Committee Member
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member

Author:

Stuckey, Heather L.

Title:

Healing from Dry Bones: Creative Expression and Adult Learning in Diabetes Care

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

ways of knowing
creative expression
adult learning
health care
patient care
action research
chronic illness
diabetes
postmodern
poststructural

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Stuckey.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member
Glen Alan Mazis, Committee Member
Irene C Baird, Committee Member
Robert A Gabbay, Committee Member

Author:

Kucukaydin, Ilhan

Title:

Counter-Learning Under Oppression

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Turkey
Kurds
Frankfurt School
critical constructivism
counter-learning
learning
oppression
Marcuse
Women

File:

Download cluo_Kucukaydin.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniele D Flannery, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member
Holly L Angelique, Committee Member
Kenneth Brian Cunningham, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Janice Elaine

Title:

The Meanings of Teaching from the Perspective of Exemplary and Experienced Teachers

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
narrative inquiry
meaning-making
Kegan
constructive-developmental
teaching
teacher professional development

File:

Download Smith_March_25.pdfDownload Janice_Smith_Errata2.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Angelica Cranton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward W Taylor, Committee Member
Denise Gaspari Meister, Committee Member
Gina Brelsford, Committee Member

Author:

Hershey, Jean L.

Title:

THE LIVED EXPERINCE OF BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL NURSE FOR ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING GRADUATES: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Associate Degree Graduates
Socialization
Professional Identity; Nursing Students
Phenomenology

File:

Download dissertation_final_pdf.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniele D Flannery, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member
Samuel William Monismith, Committee Member
Dennis Ray Lott, Committee Member

Author:

Triscari, Jacqlyn S.

Title:

POWER SHIFTS DURING AN ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Postmodernism
Transformation
Change
Organization
Power
Non-Profit

File:

Download Triscari_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Patricia Angelica Cranton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Triparna B Vasavada, Committee Member
Jo Tyler, Committee Member

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

Author:

Ongeri, Joseph Dennis

Title:

Learner-Centered Teaching in Economics: An Action Research Study.

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Learner-Centered Teaching in Economics
An Action Research.

File:

Download Ongeri_JosephDissertation_0305.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward W Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward W Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patricia Angelica Cranton, Committee Member
Lewis A Boahene, Committee Member
Nihal Bayraktar, Committee Member