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What makes an adult learning community work for women?
Having participated in several learning communities while working on her master's and EdD degrees, Dr. Kathleen "Kitty" Foord has a deep interest in the topic and its gender components.
"I was really interested in what's inside the 'black box' of professional learning communities that really resulted in changes in teacher beliefs and practices about effective teaching," she said.
As faculty coordinator of professional development in the department of educational studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Foord conducted a qualitative case study investigating professional development practices in an adult learning community from feminist, cognitive and social perspectives. She also looked for the factors that make the community effective in causing change.
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At the University of Nebraska's conference on Women in Educational Leadership held in Lincoln in October, she discussed her research on gender and learning communities.
What works for adult women?
Foord asked two questions: What factors must be present for adult learning? How do you get teaching to change for effective learning without using force?
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