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Entering the Community of Educational Research Practice: Participatory Experience and Presenting at Education Conferences
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
This session begins with the research on the nature of learning through conference presentations and a discussion on how adult educators can design meaningful learning across overlapping communities of practice.
Target Audience
This session will be of significant benefit to diverse members of the learning community in adult higher education. This includes, but is not limited to faculty members, graduate students, program administrators and directors, adult education researchers, dissertation advisers, mentors of adult learners – anyone who is interested in the complex nature of participation in professional communities of practice in general, and in educational research specifically.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will leave this session with new insight into adult learning through participation in research conferences, into the learning journeys of becoming an educational researcher/scholar, into the experience of presenting at conferences, and into the nature of professional participatory experience in overlapping communities of practice. In addition, through discussion on the research implications and specific suggestions for learning facilitation, participants will identify and employ potentially effective facilitation designs for learning in professional practice (including design of conference presentation, internships, and other professional learning opportunities).
Session Description
Graduate study in educational disciplines is designed to equip students with the concepts and skills necessary to become effective researchers. Our research investigated the nature of students’ experiences in research conferences as a component of the learning that is required to participate in the professional community of educational research practice. Our session’s discussion will center on the nature of adult learning and participation in such events, on the complexities of participation across overlapping communities of practice, and on curricular and programmatic implications for supporting professional practice experiences in meaningful ways.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Joellen E. Coryell, PhD, Texas State University
Work Title
Assistant Professor, Adult, Community, and Professional Education