Lisa Baumgartner

Texas State University | TxSt · Department of Counseling, Leadership, Adult Education, and School Psychology

In the mid-1990s HIV/AIDS transitioned from a terminal illness to a chronic disease because of medical advances. In this qualitative study the author examines how people incorporate the HIV/AIDS identity into their selves at three points in time. Findings demonstrate a five-component process, including diagnosis, postdiagnosis turning point, immers...

This literature review investigates women-centered articles in Adult Education Quarterly between 1985-2022. Findings indicate a predominance of qualitative research studies, increased use of critical frameworks, and multiple ways women are portrayed.

This paper aims to uncover the benefits of an intervention on healthcare workers in the Northwestern United States. Findings indicate that healthcare workers who engaged in at least one of several activities at least 10 minutes per day (e.g. meditation, listing three good things per day, exercise, journaling or making meaningful connections) experi...

This chapter aims to explore the development, learning, and education of older adults. Developmental changes and the effect of cognitive and physical activity on the brain are discussed. Older adults' learning in informal learning and learning in nonformal settings are explored. Future research should focus on the causality between brain health and...

Like other workplaces, bullying occurs in academia. Additionally, women report more frequent and severe forms of bullying than men. The purpose of this qualitative study was to unearth women academics' learning because of being bullied. We discuss the learning context and explore the learning that occurred. Understanding these factors can augment t...

The purpose of this roundtable is to discuss how LGBTQ issues were reviewed in adult education journals between 2010-2020. We pose several topics for discussion based on our findings.

This paper presents African American women’s experiences in financial literacy courses. Using culturally responsive teaching, self-efficacy, and self-determination, findings suggest pedagogy that can develop financial self-efficacy/competency, relatedness, and autonomy.

Older adults are a growing population. This article reviews the literature on older adults in Adult Learning from its inception in 1989 through 2020. Topics focus primarily on program reports, programmatic learning needs, personal reflections, and classroom methods. Key findings include that “older adult” is not well-defined and adults are portraye...

Abstract: The Restore U 21-Day Challenge is offered as an annual well-being tune-up for staff and faculty who experience stress, secondary trauma, and compassion fatigue while working at a regional health care facility. This study explored the experiences of program participants. Researchers wanted to know how the curriculum personally affected par...

This chapter details my journey to the field of adult education and my experiences in the professoriate.

COVID-19 exposed inequities in access to adult education. The purpose of this paper is to highlight literature that provides theoretical and practical reasons for the disparities in access to technology. I review challenges teachers and learners face online and discuss best practices for teaching online. Last, I pose questions for discussion regard...

The purpose of this session will be to briefly review our study results concerning participants’ self-directed learning and beliefs about COVID-19. Second, we discuss challenges in educating individuals about COVID-19.

Transitions can be an important learning opportunity. Learning is particularly relevant to marginalized populations' transition experiences, such as women exiting the sex trade. In this qualitative study, we investigated the learning of 10 women who transitioned out of the sex trade in Texas between 3 and 20 years ago with a support organization's...

The authors review how the term "older adult" is defined in articles that discuss older adults in the International Journal of Lifelong Education

This literature review concerns the portrayal of older adults in Adult Education Quarterly from 1980-2019.

Publication expectations continue to rise at academic institutions. Successfully publishing an article means effectively responding to reviewer comments. In this paper, I briefly delineate the publication process. I discuss best practices for responding to reviewer comments and provide examples. I review how the scholarly impact of one's work is me...

Since the spring of 2020, the pandemic has dominated public discourse. Using a public health critical race praxis research approach, our team interviewed a diverse group of individuals to elicit stories about their knowledge, attitudes, and responses to COVID-19. We used health belief model constructs and critical race theory tenets to evaluate rac...

Human resource development principles have important applications for everyone, including marginalized populations. Particularly relevant to marginalized groups are issues of work development and growth, as impacted by individuals' confidence and ability to transfer skills to different contexts. In this qualitative study, we explored the experience...

This book offers a wide perspective on adult learning theory

While aquatic exercises have been considered one of the most appropriate learning activities for older adult learners because they are safe and beneficial for health, limited evidence exists regarding how older adult learners perceive their learning environment and different learning strategies. Thus, our research explored older adults’ perceptions...

In this article, the authors examine the value of survivor leaders in organizations helping women transition out of the sex trade and how organizations can best utilize survivor leaders. They interviewed 10 women who have been out of the sex trade from between 3 and 20 years. They found survivor leaders (a) created relatability for participants exi...

Within masculinity scholarship, there is a gap about how masculinity carries over from a broad social context to an organizational context. This article explores the construction and capitalization of masculinity through a series of experiences in social fields such as the military and college, and the transfer of militaristic masculinity into the...

This review aims to understand everyday learning of older adults using mobile devices. Specifically, for both academic and practical implications, we wanted to know what theoretical perspectives researchers adopted and how mobile devices play a role in older adults’ informal learning. We analyzed 28 empirical studies (15 qualitative, 10 quantitativ...

Within masculinity scholarship, there is a gap about how masculinity carries over from a broad social context to an organizational context. This article explores the construction and capitalization of masculinity through a series of experiences in social fields such as the military and college, and the transfer of militaristic masculinity into the...

We explored the benefits and challenges of peer mentoring for student affairs professionals who are learning about assessment. Participants benefited from gaining a different perspective, mentoring, and being mentored. Respondents reported that role issues and fewer meetings over time were challenges. Findings have implications for training student...

Our research explored the experiences of educators who teach in a gender-responsive program for women in a jail. We interrogated how educators fostered empowerment in their classes, what their motivations were for teaching in the program, and the tensions that existed for them when using emancipatory teaching practices in jail. Findings indicate th...

The purpose of this study was to elicit the experiences of women who participated in a gender-responsive program in jail. Through the collection of life history interviews , this article highlights the transformative learning experiences of 13 women participants. Research questions included (1) how did the program foster trans-formative learning? (...

Texas A&M University The purpose of this study was to explore how midlevel managers learn supervisory skills. Analysis of 20 interviews revealed three components: (1) realization of becoming a supervisor (2) implementation of learning strategies and (3) recognition of barriers and supports for learning. The findings have implications for student af...

The purpose of this study was to elicit the experiences of women who participated in a gender-responsive program in jail. Through the collection of life history interviews, this article highlights the transformative learning experiences of 13 women participants. Research questions included (1) how did the program foster transformative learning? (2)...

Nurse preceptors are integral to retaining new nurses. Given the challenges associated with attracting and retaining rural nurses (Trossman, 2001), the importance of preceptors in the retention of new nurses and the dearth of studies explicitly examining the attributes and qualifications of successful rural nurse preceptors, the purpose of this stu...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences of African American men living with HIV/AIDS. The questions guiding the study were: (a) How do African American men incorporate HIV/AIDS into their identities? and (b) How do contexts affect the incorporation process? Data from this study was taken from a larger study concerning HIV/AIDS...

This chapter examines the challenges faced by African American women living with HIV/AIDS and how they learn to live with this chronic illness.

Individuals experience disease in a variety of contexts. In this study, I examined how the temporal context (e.g., historical time, social time, chronological age and the passage of time) affected the incorporation of the HIV/AIDS identity into the self. I used semi structured interviews to collect data from 36 individuals living with HIV/AIDS. His...

Contexts influence the experience of disease. In this study, I examined how the sociocultural context (e.g., race, class, gender, and sexual orientation) affected the experience of living with HIV/AIDS and the incorporation of the HIV/AIDS identity into the self. I interviewed 36 individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Findings indicate that race, socioe...

This chapter demonstrates the role of learning in coping with chronic illness and provides recommendations for health educators.

This chapter explores how white privilege and racism function in adult education graduate programs regarding admissions, retention, and curricula.

In a previous study, the first author of the current study examined how people who were diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) when it was considered a terminal illness incorporated their HIV/AIDS identity into the self over time. In the qualitative study reported here, we examined HIV identity inc...

The authors use personal stories to discuss how race affects classroom dynamics and student interactions. In this chapter they focus on the role of emotions in the teaching-learning exchange, providing recommendations and strategies for fostering multiculturalism in the classroom.

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This paper unearths Septima P. Clark's contributions to adult education efforts at Highlander Folk School. Autobiographical texts and archival holdings were analyzed through a critical, feminist lens to determine her contributions. In addition, the adult education strategies she utilized in her work were examined using a Freireian framework. The hi...

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.

Much learning in adulthood is informal, social in nature, and firmly embedded in the life context of the learner. It takes place in social groups engaged in a common practice. One model for considering the learning that takes place in social groups is Wenger's notion of communities of practice. In a community of practice, learning, practice, and id...

Although the literature on adult learning is extensive, most of the content is based on research with adults who enrolled in mainstream groups and organizations. Why adults would engage in learning to become a member of a marginalized group and the learning process they undergo to achieve that goal is a question that has been largely ignored in pre...

The purpose of this monograph is to serve as a primer for practitioners on the foundational theories of adult learning. It begins with an explanation two lenses through which learning theory is viewed: behaviorism and constructivism. The next section defines andragogy and delineates Knowles's five assumptions about adult learners. This is followed...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the nature of learning during the incorporation of HIV/AIDS into identity over time. It sought to understand participants’continued meaningmaking of their chronic illness. Interviews conducted with the same 11 participants in 1995, 1998, and 1999 composed the data set. Data were analyzed using ps...

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Andragogy and self-directed learning continue to be important to our present-day understanding of adult learning.

The incorporation of human immune deficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) into identity over time was examined by collecting data from the same 11 HIV-positive individuals at 3 points in time (in 1995, early 1998, and late 1999). By the time of their semi-structured interviews in late 1999, the seven men and four women inter...

The purpose of this study was to find out whether HIV-positive adults who had participated in a study of the centrality of meaning-making in transformational learning had maintained 2 years later their perspectives of making meaningful contributions through service to others, or if the advent of protease inhibitors would have resulted in their reve...

This book contains 28 personal stories and poems about growth and development in adulthood that were written by individuals who were purposely chosen to reflect the diversity of U.S. culture and sociocultural factors such as race and ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, and able-bodiedness that affect development in adulthood. The stories...