Adult Learning articles from January 2003

Adult Learning archives from January 2003

Celebrating mentoring.
January 1, 2003... In today's world of adult learning and education, mentoring has the potential to make the difference between success and failure in one's personal and professional life's journey While an old idea, mentoring has much relevance and meaning in...

The journey of the principles of adult mentoring inventory.
January 1, 2003... In the early 1990s, I had finally reached what most doctoral students would agree is that memorable point when a dissertation topic is the only remaining requirement on the obsessed radar screen. I too had heard all of the stories about ABD...

Reluctant mentors and resistant proteges: welcome to the "real" world of mentoring.
January 1, 2003... When I achieved my first job as an assistant professor in a rural southeastern university, my department chair assigned me a mentor, a white male full professor. The first words my mentor said to me were indicative of his feelings concerning...

Mentoring for WebCT and interactive television instructional delivery.
January 1, 2003... While mentoring may be considered part of an instructional dynamic, the ease of mentoring diminishes as the distance between the learner and provider increases. The increasing application of distance learning technologies has resulted in a...

Mentoring big questions and worthy dreams for young adults.
January 1, 2003... Adult educators have historically focused attention on learners of non-traditional age--generally 26 and often considerably older. Yet recent years have seen increasing numbers of younger students attending community colleges and other formerly...

Mentoring beginning public school teachers.
January 1, 2003... According to Johnson (2001), teaching has been a career in which those with the least experience face the greatest challenges and most difficult responsibilities. This helps substantiate the belief espoused by our national, state, and local...

Fostering librarian leadership through mentoring.
January 1, 2003... The aim of effective mentorship is to promote the development of the learner (Daloz, 2004). This article highlights my own leadership journey, sharing how mentoring has given my professional life direction, taught me passion, and how mentoring...

Teaching non-English speaking students.(PERSONAL REFLECTIONS)
January 1, 2003... They sit in the classroom, quiet and polite, waiting for you to speak. They look at you attentively when you do speak, but you have no idea if they understood anything you just said. Then, after a slight pause, your interpreter steps in. He/she...

The 2000 handbook: reactions and a new call for critique.(RESOURCES)(Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education )(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... REVIEW Wilson, Arthur L., and Hayes, Elisabeth R. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of adult and continuing education (new ed.). A publication of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN...

Time to regrade the terrain of continuing professional education: views from practitioners.(FUTURES)
January 1, 2003... Chicago, Illinois is the home base for dozens of professional associations and other types of continuing professional education (CPE) provider organizations. This happy circumstance brings many of their program directors, administrators,...