HIV‐positive adults' meaning making over time

Abstract

This chapter examines how HIV-positive adults made sense of their diagnosis. Individuals experienced a perspective transformation or change in worldview, which was found to hold over time. Changes in meaning schemes or individual beliefs and assumptions occurred over time.

Examining Transformation on the Road to the Professoriate

“…Graham's journey to becoming more fully himself required extrication from the uncritically accepted influences that shaped how he interpreted himself and the empirical world. His expansion and change in ways of knowing and being is similar to findings in the HIV studies of Courtenay, Merriam, and Reeves () and Baumgartner (), Lange's () study of transformative learning for citizen action, and Hoggan's () study of breast cancer survivors.…”

Young Adulthood, Transitions, and Dis/ability

“…More specifically, adult education literature has explored a variety of issues related to dis/ability, including: how people with dis/ability labels make sense of their status (Baumgartner, , ; Baumgartner & David, ; Courtenay, Merriam, & Reeves, ; Courtenay, Merriam, Reeves, & Baumgartner, ), the learning experiences inherent to parenting a child with a dis/ability label (Hill, ), and the process of sharing one's disability status with others (Rocco, ). Beyond this empirical work, there has been some writing around teaching strategies for working with individuals with dis/ability labels in adult education contexts (Covington, ; Gadbow, , ; Haddad, ).…”

Shifting lenses: A critical examination of disability in adult education

“…As of 2011, the adult education work around disability issues has just barely broken ground on other important issues, ranging from the individual person to the social context. Some of the adult education literature involving disability issues has explored the way individuals make new meaning regarding their identity and environment as a result of their disability status (Baumgartner, 2002(Baumgartner, , 2005Baumgartner and David, 2009;Courtenay, Merriam, and Reeves 1998;Courtenay, Merriam, Reeves, and Baumgartner, 2000), learning experiences parenting a child with a disability (Hill, 2001), or the interpersonal dynamics involving disability disclosure (Rocco, 2001). Other work has explored teaching strategies (Covington, 2004;Gadbow 2001Gadbow , 2002Haddad, 1995;Summers, 2008) to inform practice in formal adult and higher education programs.…”