39th Annual
Adult Education Research
Conference Proceedings

University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, Texas

May 15-16, 1997

Credits and Proceeding's ISBN

	Welcome letter from Kathi Light, Conference Co-Chair, University of the Incarnate Word
	Welcome letter from Adrianne Bonham, Host Co-Chair, Texas A&M University
	Welcome letter from the 1998 AERC Steering Committee

Credits and Proceeding's ISBN

Papers compiled by:

Jessica C. Kimmel

Additional copies of the conference proceedings can be obtained from:

Dr. Adrianne Bonham
EHRD Dept., College of Education
Texas A&M University
615 Harrington Tower
College Station, TX 77843-3256
bonham@acs.tamu.edu

Library of Congress No.ISSN 1098-8246

1998

Welcome letter from Kathi Light, Conference Co-Chair, University of the Incarnate Word

University of the Incarnate Word
4301 Broadway
San Antonio, Texas 78209
(210) 829-6000

May 14, 1998

Dear AERC Participants,

Bienvenidos!  The University of the Incarnate Word is pleased to welcome you to the 39th Annual Adult Education Research Conference.  This is a joint conference, sponsored by Texas A&M University and UIW.  We are pleased to show off our state, our fine city of San Antonio, and our ability to host a collaborative and collegial conference.

Here at Incarnate Word we have had a dedicated group of graduate students who have planned all the many details related to being a host site.  The students began working in the fall of '97 when faculty and students from TAMU and UIW collaborated on a team-taught Program Planning course.   This private-public collaboration in course development and teaching was one of the most exciting aspects of planning this conference.  Much of the conference planning was done by the creative students of the Program Planning course and those valiant volunteers who continued through the spring.  I most especially want to thank my faculty colleague, Dr. Linda Smith, who represented TAMU and the following graduate students who worked on the many details related to hosting this conference:

Alana Biediger-Collins, Isaac Campos, Linda Cantu, Maria Castillo, Valerie Chavez, Abraham Dominquez, Sylvia Gonzalez, Larry Gregorash, Diana Harwood, Paul Jolet, Linda Lewis, Lottie Moore, Barbara Moreland, Jean Mosel, Debra Perrett, Martina Porter, Maureen Rauschhuber, Kathleen Stark, Donna Tiller, Ron Wojnar, and Laura Yzaguirre.

Many other graduate students from education, nursing, social gerontology, and organizational development programs are helping by volunteering throughout the conference.  I also want to thank the residents at Mariner Health Care who assisted us with mailouts for our preconference.   Special thanks go to Dr. Adrianne Bonham from Texas A&M University for her courage and vision in suggesting this collaboration.  Adrianne, it is always a joy to work with you!

Again, welcome to Texas, welcome to San Antonio, and welcome to UIW.  We hope you enjoy your time with us!

Sincerely,

Kathi Light
Conference Co-Chair

Welcome letter from Adrianne Bonham, Host Co-Chair, Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University
Department of Educational Human Resource Development
College of Education
College Station, Texas 77843-3256
(409) 845-3016
FAX (409) 845-0409

Howdy!

That's what Aggies say.

Thank you for joining us in San Antonio for the 39th Annual Adult Education Research Conference.  We think it is unusual (unique?) to have AERC hosted by two institutions.  We are even more certain this is the first time it has been done by two institutions almost 200 miles apart.   But this is Texas, after all!

In College Station, we have had a dedicated group of graduate-student volunteers who helped to produce and mail the printed materials, answer your questions, resolve problems, and register you for the conference:   Thelisa Cone-Nutt, Sue Hill, Deanna Kasper, Deborah Kilgore, Norma Maedgen, Wanda Mouton, Harriet Smith, Amanda Vanek, Denise Watson, and Linda White.  I particularly want to thand Sandra Donnelly for serving as my graduate assistant during the 18 months that we have worked toward these days and Jessica Kimmel for editing the proceedings.

Special thanks go to University of the Incarnate Word for letting us meet on their campus and to the faculty, staff, and students who have worked so diligently to make us all feel welcome.  The Educational Human Resource Development Department at Texas A&M has had a long and profitable working relationship with UIW, which has provided us with some of our finest graduate students.

We also thank Paulette Beatty, acting head of the EHRD Department, and Jane Conoley, dean of the College of Education, for significant financial commitments that these TAMU components have made to the conference.

If there's anything y'all need while you're here, just let us know.

Sincerely,

Adrianne Bonham
Host Co-chair

Welcome letter from the 1998 AERC Steering Committee

May 15, 1998

Dear AERC Participants:

Welcome to the 39th Annual Adult Education Research Conference.  We hope your time in San Antonio will be both personally and professionally rewarding.  The 1997-98 Steering Committee in collaboration with the University of the Incarnate Word and Texas A&M University planned what we think will be an excellent conference.

By participating in this conference you join a long tradition, bringing together graduate students, faculty and practitioners in a culture of scholarship, colaboration [sic], opportunity to engage with theory and practice in new and exciting ways.  It has become a forum for the advancement of knowledge related to adult education; the record of our proceedings is an important resource for scholars in the field.  In the pages that follow, some of the finest research going on in the area of adult education will be presented in summary form.  Since we all struggle with the difficult choices of where to spend our time during such a stimulating conference, we hope the proceedings will both assist your in identifying those sessions you most want to attend while in San Antonio and enable you to follow up later by reading and sharing with others the summaries of research presented in other excellent sessions.

Each year the Adult Education Research Conference is hosted by a university willing to volunteer its space and time.  We were fortunate this year to have two excellent institutions sharing the role of host.  The Steering Committee wishes to express here our gratitude to the many volunteers at University of the the Incarnate Word and Texas A&M University who have worked hard to make this AERC a special experience for all participants.  We especially wish to thank Kathi Light and Adrianne Bonham who have acted as program co-chairs, but we know that their work and ours has been successful because of the assistance of many who will have worked quietly behind the scenes from the preparation of the call for papers through the analysis of conference evaluations.

39th Annual AERC Steering Committee

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