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Carol E. Kasworm
Researcher at North Carolina State University
Publications - 50
Citations - 1837
Carol E. Kasworm is an academic researcher from North Carolina State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Adult education. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 50 publications receiving 1781 citations. Previous affiliations of Carol E. Kasworm include University of Texas at Austin & University of Tennessee.
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Setting the Stage: Adults in Higher Education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of adult student enrollment patterns, their participation motivators, and their lifestyle differences from younger college students in higher education, and how do they differ from younger students.
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Adult Meaning Making In The Undergraduate Classroom
TL;DR: This paper explored adult undergraduate beliefs about their construction of knowledge in the class-room and the relationships between such knowledge and their adult roles outside the classroom, and found that five belief structures, called "knowledge voices", were delineated from interviews with 90 adult students.
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Adult Learners in a Research University: Negotiating Undergraduate Student Identity
TL;DR: This paper explored the coconstruction of adult undergraduate student identities through positional and relational adult student identities and found that these identities are multi-layered, multi-sourced, evolving, and at times, paradoxical in beliefs of self, posit...
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Adult Student Identity in an Intergenerational Community College Classroom
TL;DR: This article explored coconstructed understandings of culturally and socially mediated student identities through social constructivist theory, and explored the nature of an adult student identity based on social constructivism and cultural constructivism.
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Emotional challenges of adult learners in higher education
TL;DR: Through acts of hope, adults face four challenges of emotion in their pursuits of collegiate learning as discussed by the authors, i.e., fear, anxiety, depression, and self-criticism.