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Zhu, Yidan – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2020
Immigrant mothers, who are socially constructed as an isolated group of people, are often excluded from the studies of adult learners. In adult education, few studies focus on immigrant mothers' ways of learning, mothering, and knowing. Based on a critical ethnographical study, this article sheds lights on immigrant mothers' learning in a foreign…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Mothers, Adult Students, Adult Education
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Shan, Hongxia; Walter, Pierre – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2015
While official rhetoric of multiculturalism claims to value cultural diversity, everyday multiculturalism focuses on how people of diverse cultural backgrounds live together in their everyday lives. Research on everyday multiculturalism has documented ways through which people negotiate senses, sensibilities, emotionality, and relationality across…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Migrant Education, Multicultural Education
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Boshier, Roger; Yan Huang, – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2010
Without adult education, there would have been no Communist government in China. Once the Long March arrived in Yan'an, Mao and Communist leaders used adult education in informal and nonformal settings to build momentum for revolution. This article analyzes the theory and practice of adult education during the Yan'an "golden years"…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship, Political Socialization