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Item Expectations And Experiences With Teaching Women At A Private College In Saudi Arabia(Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education, 2003) Glowacki-Dudka, MichelleThe focus of this research is to understand the expectations of faculty and administration at Effat College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I assessed the college’s current status to understand ways to “improve the quality of education at the school” by interviewing the faculty and administration about how they saw the roles. I sought to identify and understand the many issues facing this newly established college in order to build upon its strengths and support its growth and future success. As the college was still developing policies, procedures, and systems, the faculty—mostly expatriate teachers—were very uncomfortable because the expectations and experiences differed significantly between faculty and administration.Item Mechanics’ Institutes: Glorious Failures Or Modest Successes?(Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education, 2003) Morris, Roger K.Mechanics Institutes or, as they are more commonly known in the State of New South Wales, Schools of Arts are often portrayed as having been glorious failures in that they did not achieve their founding purpose. They did not educate the artisan in science and technology. This paper partially disputes that point of view. It argues that, in Australia, the so-called second wave of Schools were really quite successful in achieving their much more modest goals. They adapted the overstated idealism of the early Schools to meet the real needs of their local communities. These later Schools provided a local home for reading, learning, culture, civil society, and recreation in the then developing suburbs and towns of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. Schools of Arts, as multipurpose centres of adult learning and activity, eventually declined as their communities grew and diversified. Their earlier comprehensive functions were taken over by a range of more specialised providers and facilities.Item The Role Of Women In Popular Education In Bolivia(Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education, 2003) Kollins, Judith M.; Hansman, Catherine A.In the face of poverty and long-term political instability in Bolivia, many adult educators are working towards social justice, focusing students on economic opportunities and maintaining their indigenous culture. The process is complex and often compounded by the sociocultural context in which the learning takes place, particularly when examining education and justice for women and minorities. However, in cases when the educational model takes daily life within local cultures into account (popular education), true learning and change can be seen.Item RUSSIA AND CHINA IN TRANSITION: IMPLICATIONS FOR HRD RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN GLOBAL COMMUNITY(2005-10-13T19:38:17Z) Liu, Jun; Niemi, JohnIn recent years, both Russia and China have attempted to move toward a market economy from a centralized, tightly controlled economic and political system that had held sway for many decades. In Russia, the attempt foundered largely because Russia moved too quickly without giving sufficient attention to its history and tradition. China, on the other hand, has retained elements of a centralized system while moving gradually toward a market economy. Both countries had had numbers of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that became the key element of and central to the economic transition. Lewin's model of force-field analysis is used as a means to analyze the forces that both drive and restrain the economic restructuring. Entry into World Trade Organization (WTO) challenges both countries' SOEs. Training SOEs leaders to obtain core competencies is a crucial first step for SOEs to survive and develop in a global marketplace.