Browsing by Subject "Interdisciplinary Approach"

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    EMBRACING AND EXTENDING THE MARGINS OF ADULT EDUCATION:EXPERIENCES OF INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION
    (2005-11-21T18:23:41Z) Glowacki-Dudka, Michelle; Wise, Meg
    Adult educators, working in non-traditional interdisciplinary settings, sit at the confluence of where the margins of several disciplines meet to exchange ideas on how to advance theory and practice to facilitate adult learning. This paper uses two case studies of how adult educators work in interdisciplinary non-traditional adult education organizational settings—a state-level family literacy initiative and an interdisciplinary online adult patient education research and development program—to improve programs that facilitate adult learning. The paper concludes with a discussion of barriers to and strategies for integrating adult education principles into mainstream programs.
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    Working With Interdisciplinary Teams Of Boundary Spanners: The Challenges And Potential For Adult Education
    (Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education, 2003) Wise, Meg; Glowacki-Dudka, Michelle
    Innovative research and development for holistic adult on-line health education (eHealth) is increasingly conducted by interdisciplinary teams of boundary spanners in grant-funded academic institutes. Typically, these teams include fields that represent the whole person with an illness in their social and technological context: medicine, nursing, social and counseling psychology, social work, systems engineering, and the communications and information sciences. However, adult education does not typically sit at these collaborative research tables. This paper uses a case example of a sole adult educator working in such a setting to explore how adult education fits into this new boundary-spanning field of practice and scholarship.