Building Sustainable Futures for Adult Learners

Jennifer K. Holtz, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA.Stephen B. Springer, Texas State University, USA.Carrie J. Boden McGill, Texas State University, USA.

• Preface.Acknowledgements.Introduction, Stephen B. Springer, Carrie J. Boden-McGill, and Jennifer K. Holtz.Part I: Supporting Needs of Adult Learners: Sustaining Adult Learners in Higher Education.Chapter 1. Rebuilding Lives: Narratives of the Educational Experiences of Displaced Workers, Margaret A. Voelkel.Chapter 2. Adult Degree Programs: Factors Impacting Student Persistence, Mathew J. Bergman, Kevin J. Rose, and M. Brad Shuck.Chapter 3. Do Graduate Students Who Set Formal Goals Really Graduate at Higher Rates? Robert Collins, Jill Coddington, and Dorothy Williams.Supporting Adult Student Parents.Chapter 4. College Enrollment Choices Predicted by Social Capital, Academic Encouragement, Environment, and Student-Parent Differences, Elyse D'nn Lovell and Dustin Barnes.Chapter 5. Torn Between Three Worlds: Examining the Graduate School Experience of Women Balancing Doctoral Education, Motherhood, and Work, Aimee Tiu Wu.Building Futures Through Curriculum Revision.Chapter 6. Enhancing Meaning in Adult Higher Education Through Arts-Based Learning, Lisabeth Eames Capozzi.Chapter 7. Re-visioning General Education Through the Adult Baccalaureate Learning Experience, Diane Dick.Chapter 8. Online Learning and Application of Active Learning Strategies: Adult Learners in Online Settings, Yu-Chun Kuo.Chapter 9. Collaborations and Partnerships: The Foundation of Technology-Enhanced Active Learning, Marilyn Lockhart and Lindsey Jackson.Chapter 10. Adopting and Implementing Adult Learner-Focused Hybrid Teaching and Learning: One Institution's Journey, Lori A. Peterson and Daniel M. McGuire.Integrating Adult Learning Experiences in the Real WorldChapter 11. Give Me a Real-World Example: Teaching Adults Critical Comprehension Using Authentic Complex Texts, Leah Katherine Saal.Chapter 12. Sustainability and Transitional Learning: Exploring the Influence of Adult Learners' Mental Models on Adaptive Change, Brian S. Hentz.Chapter 13. Negotiating Experience and Theory: Piloting Cornerstone and Capstone Courses to Build a Sustainable Future for an Interdisciplinary Graduate Degree Program, Stephen B. Springer, Omar S. Lopez, Matthew A. Eichler, Tennille J. Lasker-Scott, and Carrie J. Boden-McGill.Chapter 14. Incidental Learning and Complexity in the Workplace, Michael D. Harner.Advancing Adult Learning in the Health Professions.Chapter 15. Staged Self-Directed Learning Model: Leaving the Nest—From Novice to Professional, Julie Hall.Chapter 16. Blending for Sustainability: Aligning the Needs of Adult Learners and the Needs of Health Sciences Education, Paige L. McDonald, Howard O. Straker, and Laurie B. Lyons.Chapter 17. Training Medical Faculty to Use Adult Learning Principles and Mentoring in Clinical Teaching, Kathy Peno, Elaine M. Silva Mangiante, and Rita Kenahan.Chapter 18. When Adult Learning Practitioners Encounter Education in the Health Professions: Challenges to Theory and Practice, Teresa J. Carter and Laura P. Gogia.Part II: Supporting Adult Learning in Organizations, Institutions, and Communities: Leading Change Toward a Sustainable Future for Adult Learning.Chapter 19. Collaborative Leadership for Sustained Partnerships, Margaret H. Rice.Chapter 20. Shaping Leadership Culture: The Role of Adult Education in Developing and Sustaining the Next Generation of Women Leaders, Carmela R. Nanton.Chapter 21. Advancing Innovation in Higher Education, Anna K. Hultquist.Implementing Forward-Looking, Competency-Based Measures of Adult Learning.Chapter 22. Prior Learning Assessment: Trends and Issues in U.S. Postsecondary Education, Henry S. Merrill.Chapter 23. What's in Your Credit Hour? Quantifying Intended Learning Outcomes in Education, Frederick Carl Prasuhn and Scott Frasard.Supporting Professional Development for Adult Educators.Chapter 24. A Hypothetical Model to Help Faculty Members in the Use of Learning Contracts with Students, Monica Fedeli, Ettore Felisatti, Cristina Mazzucco, and Mario Giampaolo.Chapter 25. Personal and Professional Experiences to Develop Learning in Teachers' Professional Qualification, Ettore Felisatti, Monica Fedeli, and Mario Giampaolo.Chapter 26. Integrating Technology into Pedagogical Content Knowledge in K–12 and University Professional Development, Kathleen B. Fabrikant, Cindy S. York, and Megan E. Morris.Chapter 27. Developing a Repertoire of Practice: Online Instructor Dispositions and Personalities, Jeral R. Kirwan and Elizabeth Roumell.Exploring Local and Global Partnerships to Sustain Adult Learning.Chapter 28. Creating Strong Partnerships Through Community Coalitions, Clint Cummings and Karen Franck.Chapter 29. The Development of Appalachian Adult Learners Under Globalization: A Transformative Perspective, Fujuan Tan, Lee Nabb, and Robert Sammons.Chapter 30. Globalization of Curricula Through Partnerships: Building Competitive Global Learner Capacity, Amy Rell and Roxanne Gonzales.Conclusion, Jennifer K. Holtz, Carrie J. Boden-McGill, and Stephen B. Springer.About the Contributors.