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Johnson-Bailey, Juanita – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
This chapter presents one faculty member's narrative in which academic research, teaching, advising, and mentoring coalesced into an activist agenda for transformative learning and social justice.
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Social Justice, Transformative Learning, Educational Research
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Cozolino, Louis; Sprokay, Susan – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter is an introduction to how the learning process changes the brain, with special attention to the facilitative role of the adult educator/mentor.
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Educators, Brain, Neurological Organization
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Hiemstra, Roger; Brockett, Ralph G. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1998
This narrative describes the journey from a mentoring relationship between a professor and graduate student to a long-term, synergistic collaborative relationship. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cooperation, Faculty Advisers, Graduate Students
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Johnson-Bailey, Juanita; Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1998
Personal examples of the authors' experience of race and gender in career development are used as a springboard to a discussion of career socialization, external obstacles faced by women, mentoring, and the implications for adult education. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Cultural Pluralism, Females