Beyond Transformative Learning in African-American Adult Education: Religion, Health, and Permeated Learning as a New Model of Adult Learning

ISBN-13: 9781032239828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 186 str.

Gerald D. Redwine

Opis

By exploring how the religious beliefs, scientific knowledge, and social surroundings of African-American sufferers of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) impacts their understanding of the condition, this book develops a new model of effective adult learning.

Spis treści

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART 1

Laying the Foundation

1 Mothers, the Martyr’s Response, and Afro-Theism

2 The Participants and the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) Subculture

3 Afro-Theism: Subcultural Results

4 The COGIC Significant Subculture

PART 2

Research Approach

5 So, What Is the Problem?

6 Purpose and Questions

7 Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory

PART 3

Background and Methodology

8 Researcher’s Perspective

9 Theoretical Framework

PART 4

Data Collection and Analysis

10 Interviews

11 Search for Symbols

12 Data Analysis

PART 5

Emerging Theory

13 Emergent Categories: Fear and Ancestral Mentors

14 Emergent Categories: Fix, Fatalism, Faith, Frustration, and Authoritarian Mentors

15 Anatomy of Substantive Living

16 Substantive Living

PART 6

The Theory: Emerge of Permeated Learning

17 Key Finding

18 Permeated Learning

19 Permeated Learning: Implications and Recommendations

20 Permeated Learning: Past to Present

21 Gaps Bridged: Permeated Learning Theory Applied

References

O autorze

Gerald D. Redwine is Associate Professor of Clinical Laboratory Science at Texas State University, USA.