Higher Education Journals' Discourse about Adult Undergraduate Students

Donaldson, Joe F.; Townsend, Barbara K.

doi:10.1080/00221546.2007.11778962

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“…This disparity indicates the social work BSW student cohort have greater numbers of mature aged students than other applied disciplines in undergraduate study in Australia. These figures also signal the 'ageing' trend of the tertiary education population, evident in recent publications on the changing demographic profile of student numbers in both the United States (Donaldson & Townsend, 2007) and the United Kingdom (O'Donnell & Tobbell, 2007).…”

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The Impact of Emotions on Practicum Learning

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2011

Social Work Education

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“…Overall, there is a paucity of research and data on NALs (Cruce & Hillman, 2011) and what has been conducted has mainly been descriptive analyses in policy reports (Irvine & Kevan, 2017). Between 1990 and 2003, only 1% of articles in seven widely circulated peer-reviewed higher education journals focused on adult learners (Donaldson & Townsend, 2007). Given the dearth of largescale research and multivariate analyses, higher education institutions have had little data to even consider institutionside changes to address their needs.…”

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Nontraditional Adult Learners

Chen

2017

SAGE Open

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In the discourse on diversity in colleges and universities in the United States, an often-neglected population is nontraditional adult learners. This article explores this invisible aspect of undergraduate diversity, and addresses how competence-based education, which focuses on demonstrating the actual ability to do, is an innovative approach that caters to adult learners’ life phase and learning needs. College arguably is a youth-centric phase of life generally designed for the younger student. However, the stereotypical full-time student who lives on campus is actually a small percentage of the entire postsecondary population. Due to the demands of an increasingly competitive world of work, nontraditional adult learners will continue to seek out postsecondary education. Unfortunately, the credit hour system is a significant barrier for both entry and success of adult learners. Merits of competence-based education are discussed, and implications are provided to best meet this significant component of student diversity.

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“…We selected these journals because of their high readership across higher education faculty. In addition, these journals (singularly, in combination or with other education/research journals) have served as data sources over the past 30 years for higher education scholars including, for example, Silverman (1985Silverman ( , 1987, Budd (1988), Milam (1991), Townsend (1993), Hutchinson and Lovell (2004), Hart (2006), Donaldson and Townsend (2007), Bray and Major (2011), and most currently Wells, Kolek, Williams, and Saunders (2015).…”

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Discourse on Leadership and Gender Awareness in Higher Education Publications: A View through the Lens of Feminist Phase Theory

Hyle¹,

Delmas²,

Krumm³

2016

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Using Feminist Phase Theory (FPT) as our analytical framework, we studied the status of gender awareness and influence in higher education leadership development trends in four premier higher education journals for the years 2008, 2011, and 2014. Our analysis was accomplished through the review of articles and book reviews published in two US and two international journals: Higher Education (Netherlands), Higher Education Quarterly (UK), Journal of Higher Education (US), and The Review of Higher Education (US). Study results indicated progress toward a multifocal set of perspectives in which gender was not an issue; rather other concerns such as social justice or diversity were the focus. Data also indicated that while gender was no longer a specific focus of the literature, it was still an underlying concern. Gender and leadership are still being examined, intentionally or not. An additional finding revealed through the study of these journals is a lack of research about leadership in higher education, particularly in the US. A focus on understanding leadership does not appear to be a priority among this higher education community.

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Higher Education Journals' Discourse about Adult Undergraduate Students

Cited by 32 publications

References 39 publications

The Impact of Emotions on Practicum Learning

The Impact of Emotions on Practicum Learning

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Discourse on Leadership and Gender Awareness in Higher Education Publications: A View through the Lens of Feminist Phase Theory

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