Identity and lifelong learning in higher education

• Other Authors: Gammel, Jo Ann (Editor), Motulsky, Sue (Editor), Rutstein-Riley, Amy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2020.
• Series: I am what I become : constructing identities as lifelong learners
• Subjects: Adult education > Psychological aspects.; Identity (Psychology); Adult education teachers > Psychology.; Adult education teachers > Attitudes.; Adult college students > Psychology.; Adult college students > Attitudes.; Adult learning.; Education, Higher.; Education > Adult & Continuing Education.; Higher education, tertiary education.; Adult education, continuous learning.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806606085
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-64113-887-1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 354 pages)

Learning and identity development are lifetime processes of becoming. The construction of self, of interest to scholars and practitioners in adult development and adult learning, is an ongoing process, with the self both forming and being formed by lived experience in privileged and oppressive conte...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Me and you, you and me: Examining student perception and the evolution of teacher identity in the community college / Morgan Halstead and Crystal S. Rudds
• Chapter 2. The work of girlhood: An invitation to examine self and identity / Amy Rutstein-Riley and Ann Mechem Ziergiebel
• Chapter 3. One lazy day would cause everything to come crashing down: Stories from underrepresented students on becoming AI? university student / Alyson King and Allyson Eamer
• Chapter 4. How place and class affect identity development as life long learners: An examination of resilience in first-generation, adult college students from appalachia / Deborah Thurman and Jeffrey S. Savage
• Chapter 5. I know there isn't anything i can't do: Adult learners find identity through bachelor's degree completion / Jennifer Serowick
• Chapter 6. I've found my own identity here! Korean graduate student mothers' identity transformations in the u.s. Higher education context / Ji-Yeon Lee and Hyesun Cho
• Chapter 7. Learning doesn't stop at 50: Lifelong learning for older adults / Marian Spaid-Ross and Caren L. Sax
• Chapter 8. Lessons from AI? life at school / Judith Beth Cohen
• Chapter 9. I am what i do ... Professional voices from the field of further education and training / Anne Graham Cagney
• Chapter 10. Multifaceted identities of teacher educators as lifelong learners / Michal Shani, Pninat Tal, and Ilana Margolin
• Chapter 11. The professor and the closet: Teacher educators and coming out / Lesley N. Siegel
• Chapter 12. Becoming learner-centered: A constellation of identity, reflection, and motivation / Emilie Clucas Leaderman
• Chapter 13. Reframing resistance: Understanding white teachers in multicultural education through the course identities approach / Ellie Fitts Fulmer
• Chapter 14. I know more than i thought i did / Enid E. Larsen
• Chapter 15. How do you form an identity from Swiss cheese? Anjali j. Forber-pratt
• Chapter 16. At the intersection of identity, disability, and power / Xóchitl L. Méndez
• Chapter 17. Self-portrait: A study of value, perspective, space, and composition / Ann Mechem Ziergiebel
• Chapter 18. Invisible life in the academy: African American women staff in higher education / Kimberly D. Johnson
• Chapter 19. Thalia's story: A new perspective of non-traditional undergraduate students / Kristen Linzmeier
• About the Contributors.